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Peer Reviewer Statement

Social Justice  and Advocacy in Human Services was produced with support from SUNY OER Services and Milne Open Textbooks, a Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo publishing initiative offering a collaborative model for publishing open textbooks. Critical to the success of this approach is including mechanisms to ensure that open textbooks produced with the community are high quality and meet the needs of all students and learners. 

Each chapter  received two rounds of peer review between Spring 2023 and Spring 2025. The entire text was reviewed by one peer reviewer and each chapter was individually reviewed by a subject matter expert in that area. Finally, an APA expert reviewed the entire textbooks for formatting and citations.

The chapter reviews were structured around considerations of the intended audience of the book, and examined the comprehensiveness, accuracy, and relevance of content, as well as longevity and cultural relevance. Further review by the editors and the project manager focused on clarity, consistency, organization structure flow, and grammatical errors. Changes suggested by the reviewers were incorporated by chapter authors.

Lead authors Cailyn F. Green, Ph.D., M-CASAC and Bernadet DeJonge, Ph.D., CRC would like to thank all authors and peer reviewers for the time, care, and commitment they contributed to the project. We recognize that peer reviewing is a generous act of service on their part. This book would not be the robust, valuable resource that it is if not for their feedback and input.

Reviewers:

  • Jeanette Alvarez MS, CASAC-M
  • Elizabeth A. Boland, Ph.D., CRC, affiliated with Western Washington University Not only served as a peer reviewer for the OER as a whole, but also served as an APA formatting a citation expert.
  • Kari Carrol, MS,  SUNY Empire State University
  • Vincent Chirimwami, PhD ,Oregon Research Institute
  • Sarah Eickhoff, MA, LMHC, MHP
  • Matthew Jeffries, Ph.D., Washington State University
  • Kasuni T. Kotelawala, M.D.
  • Debra Kram-Fernandez, Ph. D, LCSW, SUNY Empire State University
  • Lauren Lestremau Allen, Ph.D., BCBA-D, NCSP, LBA, LP, SUNY Empire State University
  • Alan Mandell, Ph.D.,  SUNY Empire State University
  • Michael McGeown-Walker, J.D., M.S.
  • Maureen McLeod, Ph.D
  • Shannon Raybold, MS
  • Nadine Wedderburn Ph.D, SUNY Empire State University

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Social Justice & Advocacy in Human Services Copyright © 2025 by Cailyn F. Green, Bernadet DeJonge, Nikki Golden, Kim Brayton, Carrie Steinman and Shannon Raybold is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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