Dr. Karen Stipp
Associate Professor
Office
RC Rachel Cooper 307
Office Hours
By appointment
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Current Courses
SWK 420.001 Social Determinants of Health: From Disparity to Equity
SWK 395.005 Field Instruction Seminar II
SWK 454.001 Practice With Children and Adolescents
SWK 454.002 Practice With Children and Adolescents
SWK 398.005 Professional Practice: Field Instruction II
Teaching Interests & Areas
Human behavior in the social environment; School social work; Social work policy; Social work practice; Diversity and Ethics
Research Interests & Areas
Child well-being; Health disparities; Access to health care; Scholarship of teaching and learning
Ph D School of Social Welfare
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
MSW Social Work
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
BA Social Welfare, Psychology
Olivet Nazarene University
Bourbonnais, IL
Outstanding College Teaching Award
ISU College of Arts and Sciences
2023
RISE to the COVID Challenge Recognition
Illinois State University
2020
Outstanding University Teaching Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2014
National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work
The Ohio State University
2012
Arthur J. Katz Award for Outstanding PhD Student
University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare
2011
Golden Ruler Award
Vermilion County, Illinois schools
1998
Illinois schools for Reader's Digest Educator of the Year
Westville
1996
Dee Yeck Memorial Award
Illinois Association of School Social Workers MSW student
1993
Grants and Contracts
Resilience-building for professionals: Countering effects of secondary trauma in high-burnout professions
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle E Miller.
College of Arts and Sciences. July 2018 - August 2018
Self-care for pre-service and in-service professionals managing effects of secondary trauma: A TCH & social work collaboration
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle E Miller.
University Teaching Committee. July 2018 - August 2018
Promises to Keep: The Affordable Care Act and Central Illinois Access to Health Care.
Karen Flint Stipp.
College of Arts and Sciences. June 2016 - 2016
Teaching and Learning Development Grant
Kathryn Sheridan.
CTLT. June 2014 - June 2014
New Faculty Initiative Grant
Karen Sue Stipp.
College of Arts and Sciences. - 2013
Service learning for developing undergraduate practitioner-researchers. Incentive/Reward for making SoTL work public beyond ISU.
Karen Flint Stipp, .
Awarded by the Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. - September 2015
Book Review
School Social Work: A Skills-Based Competency Approach by Keller and Grumbach
Karen Sue Stipp, Deneca Winfrey Avant.
(2024), 49, 68-70, School Social Work Journal
School Social Work: Engaging Social Justice and Racial Equity from Practitioners’ Perspectives by Robert Ayasse et al.
Karen Sue Stipp, Deneca Winfrey Avant.
(2024), 48, 77-78, School Social Work Journal
Review of Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care by Dayna Bowen Matthew
Karen Sue Stipp, Karen Stipp.
(2019), 46, Article 9, The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book, Chapter
Scientific and medical research
Karen Flint Stipp.
(2016), Nancy Lind and Gardenia Harris (Eds.), Today's Economic Issues: Democrats and Republicans, ABC-CLIO
Best practices facilitating access to health care for children of the working poor
Christopher G Petr, Karen Flint Stipp.
(2009), 83-107, Multidimensional Evidence-Based Practice: Synthesizing Knowledge, Research and Value, Routledge
How school social workers can best support and service youth in care.
Deneca Winfrey Avant, Karen Sue Stipp, Carlos Evans.
School social work best practice guide, Illinois Association of School Social Workers & Illinois State Board of Education
Conference Proceeding
Building resilience: Self-care for people who intervene (Breakout workshop)
Karen Sue Stipp, Karen Stipp.
20th Annual Illinois School Psychology Intern Supervision Day, (2019)
Preparing students to serve: Integrating self-care into the curriculum
Karen Sue Stipp, Karen Stipp.
Teaching and Learning Symposium, (2019)
Trauma-Informed Self-Care
Karen Sue Stipp.
Prairie Community Foundation Women to Women Spring Conference, (2019)
Trauma-Informed Self-Care (Keynote)
Karen Sue Stipp, Karen Stipp.
20th Annual Illinois School Psychology Intern Supervision Day, (2019)
Journal Article
Preparing for the profession: Building resilience with preservice teachers
Kyle Miller, Karen Sue Stipp, Megan Kybartas.
Journal of Education and Practice, 16 (9), (2025), 10.7176/JEP/16-9-09
Student trauma, trauma-informed teaching and self-care in preservice teachers’ clinical experiences
Karen E Miller, Karen Flint Stipp, Shmaine Bazemore Bertrand.
Teacher Development, 27 (1), 55-74, (2022), https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2022.2146180
Building teacher resilience: Examining a self-care curriculum with preservice teachers
Karen Stipp, Karen Sue Stipp.
Critical Issues in Teacher Education, 27, 60-73, (2020)
Preservice teacher burnout: Secondary trauma and self-care issues in teacher education
Karen Stipp, Karen Sue Stipp.
Issues in Teacher Education, 28 (2), 28-45, (2019)
Plain View of Poor Health in a Land of Plenty
Karen Flint Stipp.
Social Work in Public Health, 30 (4), 360-372, (2015), 10.1080/19371918.2015.1024376
Theory Meets Practice: The Localization of Wraparound Services for Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance
S. A. Kapp, A. N. Mendenhall, M. L. Robbins, A. Rand, Karen Sue Stipp.
Community Mental Health Journal, 49 (6), 793-804, (2013), 10.1007/s10597-013-9646-y
Building organizational knowledge and value: Informed decision making in Kansas children’s community-based mental health services
Karen Sue Stipp, Stephen A Kapp.
Community Mental Health Journal: Advance online publication, 48 (1), 1-11, (2012), 10.1007/s10597-010-9334-0
Through the Glass Wall: Lessons Learned from Changing Technology for Knowledge Transfer in Kansas Children’s Community-Based Services
Karen Sue Stipp, Stephen A. Kapp.
Social Work in Mental Health, (9), 346-363, (2011), 10.1080/15332985.2011.569454
Trolling for useful data in an automated information management system: Experiences of Kansas community mental health managers
Stephen A Kapp, Karen Sue Stipp.
Administration in Social Work, 34 (2), 135-147, (2010), 10.1080/03643101003608927
The unintended consequences of integrating trauma-informed teaching into teacher education
Karen Stipp, Karen Sue Stipp.
Teacher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2024.2307360
Magazine/Trade Publication
Self-Care as a trauma-informed practice
Karen Flint Stipp, Kyle Miller.
SocialWork Today Web Exclusive, Web Exclusive, 2, (2017)
Other
Trauma-Informed Care in the University
Karen Sue Stipp, Karen Stipp.
(2019)
Technical Report
Listening to middle school and high school youth: Report from a 2019 survey collaboration between Not in Our Town/Not in Our Schools United Way McLean County McLean County Middle Schools and High Schools
Karen Sue Stipp, Charles Bell, Deneca Winfrey Avant.
(2021)
Presentations
Stepping Into Trauma: Resilience-Building for Nurses
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle E Miller.
2nd Annual Symposium on Ambulatory Care, Normal IL, June 10, 2022
Trauma-Informed Self Care: Building Resilience for Healthy Teaching
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle E Miller.
Trauma-Informed Self care: Building resilience for Healthy Teaching, Online, September 15, 2021
Helping Students Understand Trauma and Self Care
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle Miller.
Self-Care in the University, Normal, July 23, 2020
Trauma-informed self-care: Resilience-building for professionals.
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle Miller.
High Road School of Bloomington, Illinois, Bloomington, Illinois, January 6, 2020
Self-Care in the University
Kyle Miller, Karen Sue Stipp.
Self-Care in the University, Normal, December 3, 2019
Working with trauma-affected and suicidal youth: Building personal and team resilience.
Karen Sue Stipp, Kyle E Miller.
Illinois School Psychology Internship Consortium & Central Illinois Area Health Education Center, Normal IL, December 6, 2018
Compassionate self-care: Creating trauma-informed resilience
Karen Sue Stipp.
Kennedy Middle School, Kankakee School District 111, teacher in-service, Kankakee, IL, June, 2018
Self-care for class management: Building our trauma-informed resilience
Kyle E Miller, Karen Flint Stipp.
New Teacher Conference, Normal, IL, June, 2018
Do you know we can hear you? Harsh political discourse and cultural identity formation in emerging adults.
Karen Stipp, Fabiola Ochoa.
Culturally Responsive Campus Community Conference, Normal, October, 2016
OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Promoting Critical Thought And Inclusive Perspectives In The Classroom
Doris Houston, Karen Sue Stipp, Daniel Liechty, Diane L Zosky, Kathryn Wehrmann.
Culturally Responsive Campus Community 2016 Conference, Normal, Illinois, October 25, 2016
The impact of service learning and groups dynamics on learning outcomes: Group projects in social work education
Karen Flint Stipp, Ariana Postlethwait, April Rand, Sarah Pilgrim.
Gulf South Summit on Service-Learning & Civic Engagement through Higher Education, Savannah, G, April, 2016
Service learning for developing undergraduate practitioner-researchers.
Karen Flint Stipp, Kate Sheridan.
2016 Teaching & Learning Symposium, Normal IL, January, 2016
Increasing students’ cultural competency for the global and diverse society
Karen Flint Stipp, Cynthia Ruszkowski, Elaine Hardy, Osaore Aideyan, Barbara Ribbens, Judith Khalilallah.
2015 Teaching & Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January 5, 2015
Measuring Changes in Student Learning: Moving Social Work Research from Classroom to Field
Karen Sue Stipp, Kate Sheridan.
2014 Teaching & Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January 8, 2014
U.S. child health disparities
Karen Sue Stipp.
PhD student seminar, ISU, February 13, 2013
Access to Health Care and School Engagement in United States School Children
Karen Sue Stipp.
24th National Symposium on Doctoral Research in Social Work, The Ohio State University., April, 2012
Using Data to Inform Decision-Making in Kansas Children’s Community-Based Services
Steven Kapp, Karen Sue Stipp.
Research & Training Center for Children's Mental Health Annual Conference, Tampa, FL, January, 2009