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Associate Professor, Retired
University of Missouri-Kansas City, United States
Dr. Robert ‘Bob’ Prue is a retired Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Missouri Kansas City Social Work. He served as Chair of the Social Work Department and MSW Program Director from 2015 to 2019. Prior to coming to UMKC Dr. Prue worked in community organizing in the Haskell Indian Nations University/Douglas County American Indian Community to combat sexual violence and support healthy relationships and sexual safety. Dr. Prue has extensive social work practice history with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.
Dr. Prue's research has focused on the interface of American Indian and Mainstream systems of care. Dr. Prue has also published book chapters relating to the Native American Church, the use of peyote by American Indians, and the history of the Social Work profession with American Indians. Dr. Prue has developed an adaptation of Narrative therapy based on a synthesis of Narrative Exposure Therapy and the use of Plains Indians Winter Counts techniques. Dr. Prue helped create and served as the faculty representative for the UMKC At Ease Zone for veterans. Dr. Prue is an alumni of the Council on Social Work Education—Minority Fellowship Program. serving in a mentorship role with a number of Indigenous Social Work doctoral candidates. He serves on the Board of the Kansas City Indian Center and is a member of the Veteran’s Advocacy Committee For Mental Health at the Kansas City VA hospital. Dr. Prue is an Citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of Indians.
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Not In Our Honor—Advocating Name Change for the KC Football Team
Saturday, October 26, 2024
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CT