Philip Hong is dean of the University of Georgia School of Social Work, where he has been since 2022.  He's an academic leader nationally and internationally, and a scholar whose research focuses on poverty alleviation and workforce development, among other social work topics. Prior to this work, Dean Hong was Associate Dean for Research at the Loyola University in Chicago Knoll School of Social Work, where he also directed the Center for Research on Self Sufficiency, or CROS. His research also includes social work interventions, a model that he developed, called TIP, or Transforming the Impossible into Possible, which is a national model for social policies that promote self sufficiency and family strengthening. TIP is being applied and tested as a model to support communities in the areas of employment and workforce development, health promotion, youth development and empowerment, returning citizen reentry, and substance use recovery, among other needs.

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