Stephanie Pena

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (*indicates student):

Lechuga-Peña, S., Mitchell, F. M., Ignacio, M., Harty, J. S., & Billiot, S. M. (2024). Forging Futures, Building a Pipeline: Testimonios From a Collective of Diverse MFP Alums in the Southwest. Journal of Social Work Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2024.2400064

Hanna, A., Lechuga-Peña, S., Crutchfield, J., & Sugrue, E. (in press). School social workers’ responses to racial violence: Moving past “conversations” and “learning” to action. Studies in Clinical Social Work: Transforming Practice, Education and Research

*Gutierrez, M., *Marroquín, M. J., Lechuga-Peña, S., Becerra, D., Mitchell, F. M., *Rivera, L.A., & *Cierrlo, N. (in press). Understanding community strengths and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic: A virtual photovoice project with Latinx families. Invited for a special issue on Race and Community Practice. Journal of Community Practice 

*Marroquín, M. J., Lechuga-Peña, S., Hyunsung, O., Marsiglia, F. (conditional acceptance). Advancing health equity for autistic Latinx young adults in the US through an intersectionality lens. Social Work

Lechuga-Peña, S. (2023). Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary outcomes of implementing a family-based intervention Your Family, Your Neighborhood with Latinx immigrant families. Child and Youth Services Review 148.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.106864

*Gutierrez, M., & Lechuga-Peña, S. (Summer, 2022). Latina/o/x Critical Race Theory in social work. Invited for special issue, Re-Envisioning the Social Work Profession, Education, and Practice. Advances in Social Work. 22 (2), 605-627, DOI: 10.18060/24996

*Mackey, C., *Hernandez, N., Lechuga-Peña, S., Mitchell, F. M. (Summer, 2022). Disrupting white supremacy in Social Work doctoral education. Invited for special issues, Re-Envisioning the Social Work Profession, Education, and Practice Advances in Social Work, 22(2), 647-679.  DOI: 10.18060/24776

Becerra D., Lechuga-Peña, S., Castillo, J. *Perez González, R., *Ciriello, N., *Cervantes, F., *Porchas, F. (2022). Esto no se lo deseo a nadie”: The impact of immigration detention on Latino immigrants. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-022-00210-7

Lechuga-Peña, S. (2022). Navigating pre-Tenure and COVID-19: A Testimonio of a BIPOC Junior Faculty Mother. Affilia, 37(1), 13-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/08861099211048432

Lechuga-Peña, S., Mitchell, F. M., *Poole, C., *Gutierrez, M., & Rivera, L.A. (2021). Incorporating Photovoice into community-based interventions: Practice Implications from Your Family, Your Neighborhood. Advances in Social Work 21(4), 1124-1140.

Hanna, A., Sugrue, E., Gustman, B., & Lechuga-Peña, S. (2021). Pivoting during a Pandemic: School social work practice with families during COVID-19. Children & Schools. cdab005, https://doi.org/10.1093/cs/cdab005

Lechuga-Peña, S., Brown, S.M., Mitchell, F. M., Becerra, D., & Brisson, D. (2020) Improving parent-child relationships: Effects of the Your Family, Your Neighborhood Intervention.  Children and Youth Services Review, 119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105690

Lechuga-Peña, S. (2020). A Chicana’s perspective on navigating and plugging leaks in the educational pipeline. Special Issue on Effectiveness of Continuing Education: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective  Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 26(4) 86-93.

Mitchell, F. M., Sangalang, C., Lechuga-Peña, S., Becerra, D., & Lopez, K. (2020). Health inequities in historical context: A Critical Race Theory analysis of diabetes among African Americans and American Indians. Race and Social Problems. doi.org/10.1007/s12552-020-09301-4

Brown, S. M., Doom, J. R., Lechuga-Peña, S., Watamura, S. E., & Koppels, T. (2020). Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Child Abuse & Neglect. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104699

Mitchell, F. M., Billiot, S., & Lechuga-Peña, S. (2020). Utilizing Photovoice to support Indigenous accounts of environmental change and injustice.  Genealogy, 4(51). 1-14. 

Maglalang, D., D., Sangalang, C. C., Mitchell, F., Lechuga-Peña, S., & Nakaoka, S. (accepted) Back to the future: Reflecting on 50 years of ethnic studies to inform new directions for social work research, policy, and practice. Journal of Social Work Education

Lechuga-Peña, S., Becerra, D.,  Mitchell, M. F, Lopez K.,., & Sangalang, C. (2019) Low-income mother’s school-based parent involvement and subsidized housing: Findings from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study wave five. Child & Youth Care Forum, 48(3), 323-338.

Brisson, D., Lechuga-Peña, S., Mattocks N., Plassmeyer, M., & McCune, S. (2019)  Effects of the Your Family, Your Neighborhood Intervention on Neighborhood Social Processes, Social Work Research,  https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svz020

Lechuga-Peña, S., & Brisson, D. (2018). Your Family, Your Neighborhood: Results from a feasibility and acceptability study of parent engagement in project-based housing. Journal of Community Practice. DOI: 10.1080/10705422.2018.1521353

Lechuga-Peña, S., & Brisson, D. (2018). Barriers to school-based parent involvement while living in public housing: A mother’s perspective. Qualitative Report, 23(5), 1176-1187.

Brisson, D., Lechuga-Peña, S., & Plassmeyer, M. (2018). Prioritizing Choice: Perceptions of Neighborhood Social Cohesion for Residents in Subsidized Housing. Journal of Social Service Research, 44(3), 267-278.

Lechuga-Peña, S., & Lechuga, C. (2018). Xicanisma/o and Education: Counter Storytelling and Narratives to Inform Latina/o Student Success. Affilia, 33(3), 300-316.

Mendoza, T.S., Lechuga-Peña, S., Lopez, K., & Jackson, K. F. (2018). “Mi'jita, what for?” Exploring bicultural identity of Latina/Chicana faculty and implications for supporting Latinx students in social work. Affilia Journal of Women and Social Work. 34(2), 259-276.

Jenson, J. Veeh, C., Anyon, Y., St. Mary, J., Calhoun, M., Tejada, J., & Lechuga-Peña. (2018). Effects of an afterschool program on the academic outcomes of children and youth residing in public housing neighborhoods: A quasi-experimental study. Children and Youth Services Review, 88, 211-217.

Sangalang, C. C., Becerra, D., Mitchell, F. M., Lechuga-Peña, S., Lopez, K., & Kim, I. (2018). Effects of pre-migration trauma on mental health: A comparison of Asian American and Latino refugees and voluntary immigrants in the United States. Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health. DOI: 10.1007/s10903-018-0826-2

Plassmeyer, M, Brisson, D., & Lechuga-Peña, S. (2017). Impact of services on retaining housing. Journal of Urban Affairs, 40(2), 261-273.

Lechuga-Peña, S., Klawetter, S., Begun, S., & Brown, S. (2015). MSW students’ understanding of social location: The development of a positionality measure. Perspectives on Social Work Journal 11(2), 32-41.

Lopez, A., Yoder, J., Brisson, D., Lechuga-Pena, S., & Jenson, J. (2015). Development and Validation of a Positive Youth Development Measure: The Bridge-Positive Youth Development. Research on Social Work Practice, 25(6), 726-736.

INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS:

Lechuga-Peña, S., Ortega, D., Saldana, Spiegel, N., & Lechuga, M. (forthcoming). Present but not accounted for: Navigating racism in social work practice

Lechuga-Peña, S, & Lechuga, C. (2018). Xicanisma/o and Education: Counter Storytelling and Narratives to Inform Latina/o Student Success.  In Chalane Lechuga, Adriana Nieto and Adriann Wycoff (Eds.), Introduction into Chicano Chicana Studies (pp.101-111). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt

Brisson, D, & Lechuga-Peña, S. (2018). Your Family, Your Neighborhood: An intervention to develop social cohesion. In Allen Hays (Ed.), Neighborhood Engagement. (pp. 147-148). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

TEXTBOOKS:

Marsiglia, F. F., Kulis, S. & Lechuga-Peña, S. (2021). Diversity, Oppression & Change: Culturally Grounded Social Work (3rd edition). Chicago, IL: Oxford. 3rd edition Diversity, Oppression & Change