Southeastern Louisiana University

“Joined-up Governance Plays Out in U.S. Homeless Services” to be included in selected proceedings from the 2006 Dilemmas in Human Services Delivery Systems Conference, London, England, August 31-September 2, 2006; with John Boulahanis, and Erin Matheny.

Boulahanis, John and Erin Matheny. 2006. “Weeding Out Crime and Seeding Hope: A Community Collaborative Approach,” to be included in selected proceedings from the 2006 Dilemmas in Human Services Delivery Systems Conference, London, England, August 31-September 2, 2006; with John Boulahanis.

Steele, Stephen, James C. Petersen, Thomas L. Van Valey and Bonnie L. Lewis. 2004.  "Integrating Local Research Centers into the Teaching of Applied Sociology," in Teaching Applied Sociology, by Dukes, Duane, James C. Petersen, and Thomas L. Van Valey,  Washington, DC 20005: American Sociological Association.

Lewis, Bonnie L., F. Dale Parent, and John G. Boulahanis. 2004.  "Utilization of  Information and Communication Technologies to Improve Homeless Services in  the United States" Pp. 86-91 in Conference Proceedings of 7th International Research Conference on Dilemmas for Human Services 2003 Proceedings: A Post NPM World? Ethics and Risk in a Changing Environment, by Radcliff, James, et al.  ISBN: 1-904133-16-9.

Boulahanis, John G. and M. Heltsley. 2004. "Perceived Fears: The Reporting Patterns of Juvenile Homicide in Chicago Newspapers." Criminal Justice Policy Review, 15(2), 132-160.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. 2004. "Health Care Policy in the United States: a Model of Structured Inequality." Pp. 72-76 in Dilemmas Facing the Public Sector: Issues for Professionals, Managers and Users (selected proceedings), edited by Chandler, John and Jim Barry.

Samson, James R. and Bonnie L. Lewis. 2004.  Comprehensive Mapping for Smart Growth Planning: Project Status Update.  Research abstract in Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions' Online Research Library. Available online  at  http://synergy.intergraph.com/orl/catalog.asp?id=1603. March 2004.

Samson, James R. and Bonnie L. Lewis. 2004.  Patterns of Life and Landscape in the Florida Parishes. Research abstract in Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions' Online Research Library.  Available online at http://synergy.intergraph.com/orl/catalog.asp?id=1438. March 2004.

Steele, Stephen , James C. Petersen, Thomas L. Van Valey, and Bonnie L. Lewis. 2004.  "Integrating Local Research Centers into the Teaching of Applied Sociology," in Teaching Applied Sociology, by Dukes, Duane, James C. Petersen, and Thomas L. Van Valey. Washington, DC 20005: American Sociological Association.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. 2003. "The Concept of Social Exclusion and Rural Development Policy." Southern Rural Sociology, 19(2):153-175.

Samson, James R., Steven Rainey and Rocky Sexton. 2003. Acadiana and Courir du Mardi Gras. A guidebook for the Acadiana and Courir du Mardi Gras field trip of the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2003.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis.  2002. "Social Exclusion: Useful for the United States?" Journal of Applied Sociology, 18(1).

Lewis, Bonnie L. and F. Dale Parent. 2001. "Health Care Equity," in Handbook of Clinical Sociology, 2nd Edition, edited by Howard M. Rebach and John G. Bruhn. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and Peter Petrakis. 2000. "Legal Services in the United States: An Application of a Model for Evaluating Legal Service Access," Journal of Applied Sociology, 17(1):118-133.

Carruth, Ann K., Kellen Gilbert and Bonnie L. Lewis. 1997. "Environmental Health Hazards: The Impact on a Southern Community." Public Health Nursing, 14(5): 259-267.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. 1994. "Changing the Health Care System: Opinions of Rural and Urban Residents." Journal of Southern Rural Sociology, 10(1):21-36.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and F. Dale Parent. 1993. "Government Sponsored Healthcare: A Profile of Supporters and Nonsupporters." Clinical Sociology Review, 11(1):142-158.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and F. Dale Parent. 1993. "Health Insurance of Louisiana Businesses: A Statewide Poll of Louisiana Business Owners and Managers." Southeastern Economic Outlook, 8(1):1-4.

Moore, Amanda P. and O'Mara, Terry. 1998. "A Geographical Trend Analysis of Southeastern Louisiana University Campus Crime." OSCAR Journal, Spring 1998.

Papers and Exhibitions at Professional Meetings

Lewis, Bonnie L. and Mike Jones. "A Louisiana Study of Small Town Mayors: A 2003 Regional Project," presented at the Regional Southern Foresters Meeting in South Padre Island, TX, February 1, 2005.

Djamba, Yanyi K. and Jennifer M. Villnerve. "Americans' Views on Interracial Marriage", presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society in Atlanta, Georgia, April 14-16, 2004.

Parent, F. Dale and David Byrne. "Social Exclusion in NAFTA," presented at the annual meetings of the British Sociological Association in York, United Kingdom, April 2004.

Lewis, Bonnie, Dorothy Jenkins, John G. Boulahanis, Nga H. Bui, and Renee Mangano. "Eyes on the Community: A Look at Hammond, Louisiana Using Visitor Employed Photography," presented at the Southern Rural Sociology Annual Meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 14-17, 2004.

Parent, F. Dale, James R. Samson and Danilo Levi. "Globalization, Devolution and the Transformation of New Orleans, Louisiana," presented at the Annual Conference of the Regional Studies Association in London, United Kingdom, November 21, 2003.

Parent, F. Dale, Danilo Levi and James R. Samson, "Changing Territorial Stratification in Southeastern Louisiana: Local and Global Factors," presented at the Annual Conference of the Rural Sociological Society in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, August 2003.

Lewis, Bonnie L., F. Dale Parent and John G. Boulahanis. "Utilization of ICT to Improve Homeless Services in the United States," presented at the 7th International Research Conference of Dilemmas for Human Services at Staffordshire University, United Kingdom, September 5, 2003.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Local-Global Relations: Winners and Losers in Louisiana, U.S.A.," presented at the British Sociological Association in York, United Kingdom, April 11, 2003.

Lewis, Bonnie L., Van Burns, and Gerald McNeill. "Wildfire Safety in the Forest/Residential Interface," presented at the Southern Rural Sociological Association in Mobile, Alabama, February 4, 2003.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "The Louisiana Forest Industry: A Local-Global Perspective," presented at the Southern Rural Sociological Association in Mobile, Alabama, on February 3, 2003.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Unequal, Unjust and Unfair: Health Care in the United States," presented at the Gender and Health Conference in Vienna, Austria, September 200

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie. L. Lewis. "Health Care Policy in the United States: A Model of Structured Inequality," presented at the Sixth International Research Conference: Dilemmas Facing the Public Sector in London, United Kingdom, September 6, 2002.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Health and Social Exclusion," presented at the annual meetings of the North Central Sociological Association in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, April 2002.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Individualism, Laissez-Faire Economics, and the Development of the U.S. Health Care System," presented at the British Sociological Association in Leicester, England, March 26, 2002.

Lewis, Bonnie L. "Community Involvement in Caring for its Environment: An Impact Assessment," presented at the Southern Rural Sociology Association in Orlando, Florida, February 5, 2002.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "The Concept of Social Exclusion and Rural Development Policy," presented at the Southern Rural Sociology Association in Orlando, Florida, February 5, 2002.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Social Exclusion in the United States," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology in Kansas City, Missouri, October 2001.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and F. Dale Parent. "Race and Ethnicity as Determinants of Health Status in the United States," presented at the Seventh Symposium of Bioanthropology of the University of Havana in Havana, Cuba, February 24, 2001.

Lewis, Bonnie L., Kellen A. Gilbert, and F. Dale Parent. "Community Satisfaction Among Residents of the Florida Parishes, Louisiana," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Rural Sociology Association in Fort Worth, Texas, January 27-30, 2001.

Synovitz, Linda and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Assessment of the Implementation of HIV/AIDS Prevention Curricula by Trainees from Schools, Universities, and Agencies in Louisiana: A Descriptive Study," presented at the American School Health Associations’s 74th Annual National School Health Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 25-29, 2000.

Samson, James R. and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Patterns of Life and Landscape in the Florida Parishes", an exhibition for the Center for Southeastern Louisiana Studies symposium entitled "Louisiana's Florida Parishes: Continuity and Change, 1699-2000," at Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana, September 14-15, 2000.

Gillan, Wynn, Millie Naquin, and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Food Service Managers in Louisiana: Factors that Influence Nutrition Education," presented at the annual American School Food Service Association (ASFSA) meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, July 17-20, 2000.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and Peter Petrakis. "A Model for Evaluating Legal Service Performance," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology, Denver, Colorado, October 1998.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Fighting Crime through a Problem Solving Partnership," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology, Denver, Colorado, October, 1998.

Lewis, Bonnie L., Dianna Laurent and Ann K. Carruth. "Surveillance of Farm Injuries Among Women and Children: The Use of a CATI Program to Conduct Research," presented at the Fourth International Symposium: Rural Health and Safety in a Changing World in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 1998.

Parent, F. Dale, Bonnie L. Lewis, Ann K. Carruth and Valerie Brothers. "The Division of Labor on Farms and Women’s Perceptions of Decision-making about Farm Safety," presented at the Fourth International Symposium: Rural Health and Safety in a Changing World in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, October 1998.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and Peter Petrakis. "Access to Legal Services," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology in Oak Brook, Illinois, October 1997.

Pittman-Munke, Peggy and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Creating a Housing Inventory from the Ground Up," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology in Oak Brook, Illinois, October 1997.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Persistent Poverty: Structural Causes-Structural Solutions," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology in Oak Brook, Illinois, October 1997.

Lewis, Bonnie L., Kellen Gilbert, and Ann K. Carruth. "Citizen Voices in a Community Potentially Exposed to Environmental Hazards," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology in Atlanta, Georgia, October 1996.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis, "Rural Poverty in Louisiana," presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Rural Sociological Association in Birmingham, Alabama, February 1997.

Lewis, Bonnie L. (Panel Member). "Sociological Practice in the 21st Century: Issues and Strategies," presented at the Mid South Sociological Association Annual Meetings in Mobile, Alabama, October 26, 1995.

Lewis, Bonnie L. (Co-leader). "Establishing A Local Research Center," presented at the Society for Applied Sociology Annual Meeting in San Diego, October 1995.

Lewis, Bonnie L. (Panel Chairperson). "Local Research Centers: Vehicles for Applied Sociology, Now and the Future," presented at the Society for Applied Sociology Annual Meeting in San Diego, October 1995.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Inequality and Poverty in Louisiana," presented at the annual meetings of the MidSouth Sociological Association in Mobile, Alabama, October 1995.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and F. Dale Parent. "Promoting Small-Scale Sustainable Agriculture as Rural Economic Community Development," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology in Detroit, Michigan, October 1994.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Adoption-Diffusion Theory and Social Marketing," presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Applied Sociology in Detroit, Michigan, October 1994.

Lewis, Bonnie L., Roberta L. St.Pierre, and Tom S. Sullenberger. "Impacting DWI Arrests: A Paperwork Intervention", presented at the Southern Criminal Justice Association's Annual Meetings in Charleston, South Carolina, October 9, 1993.

St.Pierre, Roberta L. and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Tracking the Paper Trail: The Introduction of a Standardized DUI Form into a Nonstandardized Criminal Justice 'System'," presented at the annual meeting of the Sociological Practice Association in Denver, Colorado, June 10-13, 1993.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and Tom S. Sullenberger. "Structural Determinants Affecting DWI Related Arrests," presented at the Southwest Social Science Association Meetings in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 21, 1993.

Parent, F. Dale and Bonnie L. Lewis. "Changing the Health Care System: Opinions of Rural and Urban Residents," presented at the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists in Tulsa, Oklahoma, February 1993.

Lewis, Bonnie L. and F. D. Parent. "Attitudes of Louisiana Business Owners toward the U.S. Health Care System," presented at the annual meeting of the Mid-South Sociological Association in Chattanooga, Tennessee, October 22, 1992.

Grants

Northlake Homeless Management Information System, funded by U.S. Housing and Urban Development Agency, approximately $150,000 per year.

2004  Software and Services Grant. Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions Geomedia Education Grant. Awarded to the Florida Parishes Social Science Research Center in January 2004. $773,500 in commercial value.

2003-2004  Hammond Natural Space Preservation Project Grant. Funded by the City of Hammond through grants from Entergy and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. $17,000.

2002-2003  Faculty Development Grant.  Awarded for study of Photography as a Tool in Community Development. $1,995.

2002-2005  Northlake Homeless Management Information System. Funded by the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Agency. $311,028 over four years.

2002-current  Software and Services Grant.  Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions Team GeoMedia Registered Research Laboratory Program.  Awarded to the Florida Parishes Social Science Research Center for program participation.  $125,000 annual commercial value.

2001-2002 Rural Community Wildfire Awareness Project. Funded by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. $20,000.

2000 Service Learning for Social Statistics. Supply and expense funds for students in social statistics classes to conduct service learning projects in two different local communities. $945.

1999-2000 Louisiana Legal Service Program Intake Assessment Study, with Dr. Munke. Social work study funded by the Louisiana Legal Services Program Directors. $3,000.

1999-2001 Comprehensive Mapping for Smart Growth Planning. Funded by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. $20,000.

1997-98 Neighborhood Crime Prevention Project. Funded by the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office. $1,800.

1998-99 Directory of Community Resources. Project for the Tangiphahoa Parish Social Services Council. $2,888.

1997 Farm Injury Project, with Dr. Ann K. Carruth, College of Nursing, Southeastern Louisiana University. Funded by the Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education. $25,000.

1997 Assistance with Project NIC.  For Southeastern Louisiana University Department of Kinesiology and Health Studies.  $250.

1997-98 Housing Inventory Project. For the United Way of America. $1,490.

1997 Student Survey. For Institutional Research and Assessment. $2,572.

1997 Directory of Community Resources. Project for the Tangiphahoa Parish Social Services Council. $500.

1996-7 Directory of Community Resources. Project for the Tangiphahoa Parish Social Services Council. $1,500.

1996 An Ethnography of Residents near the Lincoln Creosote Site, with Dr. Kellen Gilbert and Ann K. Carruth. $9,750.

1995 Summer Alternative Assignment for Grant-Related Activity, SLU.

1994 Summer Alternative Assignment for Grant-Related Activity, SLU.

1994 SLU Homelessness Project. For Region IX Office of Mental Health to support conference and needs assessment activities. $1,500.

1994 Multi-Disciplinary Enhancement of the Florida Parishes Social Science Research Center, with Kurt Corbello, Karen Fontenot, Wynn Gillan, Roman Heleniak, and Michael Kurtz. From the Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund Research and Development Program. Approximately $56,000.

1992-1993 Comprehensive Alcohol Arrest Form Project, Testing and Training. From the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. $39,772.

1992 Louisiana Judges College Conference Presentation. From the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission for conference participation expenses. $1,200.

1991-1992 Comprehensive Alcohol Arrest Form Project, with Tom Sullenberger. From Louisiana Highway Safety Commission. $24,649.

1989-1990 Florida Parishes Social Sciences Center. Funding approval received from Southeastern Louisiana University and the Board of Regents, under the leadership of Roman Heleniak, then Head of the Department of History and Government.