Lecturers
Updated March 12, 2009Margaret Barry, MSS, LSW
resourcesforchange@earthlink.net
Ms. Barry is the co-founder and Executive Director of Resources for Change a nonprofit organization that provides school-based and community-based social work and behavioral health services to school-age children and their families, and supports public schools (both traditional and charter) to pursue and to achieve excellence in education. Services provided by Resources for Change to children and families include counseling, case management, educational supports, and information and referrals. From its inception, Resources for Change has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice to serve as a field placement in school social work within local public schools and to provide a training program for graduate students in social work. Ms. Barry’s past experience includes the following: Urban community development, including school construction, through the Peace Corps in La Paz, Bolivia and Jersey City, NJ; youth consultation and family services; individual and family clinical practice; professional and organizational consultation to the Philadelphia Schools Collaborative on the development and implementation of school-based social work; and Principal Investigator for a 3-year federally-funded program to increase parent and community involvement in public education in inner-city Philadelphia.
Sandra R. Bauman, MSW
bauman@sp2.upenn.edu
Ms. Bauman is the Director of Field Placement at the Penn School of Social Policy & Practice. Her major responsibilities include: placing MSW students in internships, finding and evaluating internship sites, maintaining a database of field sites, teaching a seminar for new field instructors, consulting with the practice sequence, and general oversight of the field placement department. She has been at the school for more than 28 years. Her outside activities include: serving on the administrative review committee for Delaware Count Children and Youth and serving as a Board member of Planned Parenthood and Hillel of Greater Philadelphia.
Sara Black, MSW, MPA
sblack@sp2.upenn.edu
Sara Black received her Masters of Science in Social Work and Masters of Public Adminsitration from Columbia University. She currently oversees the advisory services and grant programs of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a organization that provides technical assistance, loans and grants to nonprofits throughout the region in order to build their financial capacity. Prior to that, she served as the Director of Quality Improvement and Training at PATH Community MH/MR Center in Philadelphia. She has held direct service positions in women's crisis centers and foster care agencies. She has been a policy analyst and case manager in large and small agencies in the public and private sectors.
Amy Blank, PhD
amyblank@comcast.net
Amy Blank is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. She completed her PhD in Social Welfare at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are focused on the intersection of the public mental health and the criminal justice systems, with a special focus on issues of access and engagement in mental health services for people with mental illness leaving jail. In addition to her course work, she has worked on three federally funded research projects that examined the intersection of law and mental illness. Ms. Blank has advanced training in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and recently completed an ethnographic investigation of negotiations over access to mental health services for people with mental illness leaving jail. Prior to starting her PhD Ms. Blank worked for a number years in an administrative position within the public mental health system and as a county level parole officer. While she worked in the mental health system she had oversight responsibilities for a county crisis system and responsibility for the local implementation of the civil commitment law. Her work in the public mental health system also included the development and implementation of two forensic mental health case management programs.
Sandra L. Bloom, MD
s13132020@msn.com
Dr. Bloom is a psychiatrist and the President and CEO of Community Works, a systems consulting firm. Dr. Bloom served as Founder and Executive Director of the Sanctuary programs from 1980-2001, inpatient psychiatric programs for the treatment of trauma-related disorders. She is a Past-President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) and in 1998 received the Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence from the ISTSS. She is the Past-President of the Philadelphia chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and during her tenure helped to develop award winning domestic violence training programs for health care settings. In 1999-2000 she chaired the Task Force on Family Violence for Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Mike Fisher. From 1998-2001 Dr. Bloom served as the Saul Z. Cohen Chair at the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services in New York, introducing the Sanctuary concepts to a large residential program for children and adolescents in Hawthorne, New York. In Winter 2000, NIMH awarded a three-year grant to study the implementation of the Sanctuary Model into this residential setting and Dr. Bloom serves as co-investigator to this grant awarded through Colombia University. In September, 2001, she began implementing a "Safe Schools, Safe Communities" grant for the Atlantic County New Jersey School District with the Sanctuary Model as the prevention part of the project aimed at reducing school violence and improving school climate in the public school system. She and her team are also consulting with the Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial Center in Yonkers, New York to introduce the Sanctuary Model to their residential treatment program, school, and day hospital program for children under the age of fifteen. Interim House is a residential program for women who are substance abusers and trauma survivors who have spent the last year learning the Sanctuary Model. Pace School, one of Pennsylvania's approved private schools and day hospital program for emotionally disturbed children located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has also consulted with the Sanctuary team to apply the concepts to their program. The acute care psychiatric unit at Salem Hospital, Oregon have received training in the Sanctuary Model in the past year have improved their program dramatically while decreasing the use of seclusion and restraint by over 75%. She is the author of Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies, and co-author of Bearing Witness: Violence and Collective Responsibility.
Anthony F. Bruno, DSW
afbruno@sp2.upenn.edu
Anthony F. Bruno, MSW, DSW, is a graduate of Bishop Neumann High School in South Philadelphia. A Professor of Social Sciences at Community College of Philadelphia (30 years plus), Dr. Bruno teaches criminal justice, criminology, and juvenile justice, and holds the College’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. An adjunct faculty at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (13 years), he teaches (or has taught) in the HBSE, Practice, Racism, and Research Sequences and is a recipient of the School of Social Work’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 1995. He is co-secretariat of The Juvenile Justice Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, and an alumnus of the Penn School of Social Work.
Stephen Camp-Landis, PhD
Stephen Camp-Landis received a PhD in public administration from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. His dissertation addressed the relationship between American state welfare policy and political culture, through a case study of welfare policy-making and implementation under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in Pennsylvania from 1996 to 2002. He has served as a policy analyst in several Philadelphia-based organizations, including the Mayor’s Office of Policy and Planning and the Office of Budget and Program Evaluation of the City of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, and the Pennsylvania Economy League. His research interests include welfare and other policies that address poverty and inequality in the U.S., the influence of political culture and values on the policy-making process, and policy implementation.
Joel M. Caplan, M.A.
jcaplan@sp2.upenn.edu
Joel is an experienced public safety practitioner, researcher and teacher. Since pursuing his PhD degree in Social Welfare Policy at SP2, he has worked on a variety of projects utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for spatial analysis. Joel's research interests revolve around crime control, prisons and prisoner re-entry issues, and he routinely presents at annual conferences of the American Society of Criminology. While at Penn, Joel has received the University of Pennsylvania GAPSA-Provost Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation, the Hal Levin Award for Outstanding PhD Student, and the Heyer Foundation Graduate Prize Fellowship for excellent academic standing and student leadership. In addition to his academic endeavors, Joel has practical experience as a police officer, 911 dispatcher, and Emergency Medical Technician. By combining his professional experience with sound research and strategic collaborations, Joel strives to develop effective and sustainable solutions to contemporary social problems.
Julie Cederbaum, MSW, MPH
julieced@sp2.upenn.edu
Julie Cederbaum, MSW, MPH is a doctoral candidate in the School of Social
Policy & Practice. Her current research focuses on the influence of mother-
daughter sexual risk communication and parental monitoring on the HIV sexual
risk behaviors of adolescent girls. Specifically, she is exploring if and how
having HIV changes how moms communicate about abstinence and safer sex and if having an HIV-positive mom changes the sexual risk behaviors of youth. As a clinician, Julie has worked in the areas of substance abuse, housing, child
maltreatment, and in clinic settings providing case management and counseling
services to youth, HIV infected and affected families, pregnant and parenting
teens, and women and children affected by domestic/partner violence.
Elizabeth Conston, MSS, LSW
econston@sp2.upenn.edu
Elisabeth Conston is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of direct practice experience in the field. She has worked within a variety of social service settings, providing individual, family and group counseling, consultation, training, program planning and community outreach. She taught Advanced Practice at the University of Pennsylvania School of social work for five years and has been teaching Foundation Practice since 1999. She is currently the Coordinator of the Social Work Internship Training Program at Counseling and Psychological Services at the University of Pennsylvania. She has extensive experience supervising advanced year MSW students as well as working within the University setting, providing brief treatment, outreach and group therapy for Penn undergraduate and graduate students. Ms. Conston is also a partner in Spring Garden Psychological Associates, providing a broad range of psychotherapy services to individuals, couples and families. Spring Garden Psychological Associates contracts with the Department of Human Services to provide evaluation and treatment for children who have been sexually abused. Ms. Conston’s specialty areas in her clinical practice include women, gay and lesbian individuals and couples, and survivors of trauma.
Giselle Coutinho, MSW, LCSW
gcoutinho1@comcast.net
Giselle C. Coutinho is a Portuguese and Spanish speaking school social worker, case manager and counselor for the Collingswood Board of Education where she has worked for the past seventeen years. She performs diagnostic and functional behavioral assessments and interventions for special needs students. Mrs. Coutinho is the Crises Intervention Elementary Core Team Leader and administers individual and group counseling sessions with students having educational, emotional, and social problems. She is private advocate working for families dealing with state, federal, and local educational agencies. Mrs. Coutinho is the creator and coordinator of Collingswood Gift Campaign sponsoring the most financially disadvantaged children with needed food and gifts during the holiday season. She provides in-house consultation for issues specific to non-English speaking families and provides translation services for school personnel and families. As an Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Policy & Practice, Mrs. Coutinho is a lecturer for graduate level social work students interested in pursuing careers in the educational environment. She served on the Alumni Board of Directors for eight years retiring as President in 2001. Mrs. Coutinho continues her education towards a Masters in Divinity at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. She has been selected as a candidate for ordained ministry by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and plans to complete her education in 2007. She coordinates several youth support groups for at-risk adolescents and their families coming from different cultural and religious groups having difficulty functioning within various institutions in the United States.
Melissa Dichter, MSW
mdichter@sp2.upenn.edu
Melissa Dichter is a doctoral student in Social Welfare at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. Melissa received her MSW also at Penn in 2002, and her BA with a concentration in Child Development and English at Tufts University in 1998. Melissa has practice experience in individual and group psychotherapy and psychosocial education with children, community-based child abuse prevention, and intimate partner violence prevention and intervention. Currently, Melissa is the Social Science Research Specialist for the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women as well as a research assistant at the Center for Research on Youth and Social Policy. Melissa's research interests focus on violence against intimate partners and children, and the social service and criminal legal systems' responses to these issues.
Nora Dowd Eisenhower, JD
Contact person: Darlene Grove, Special Assistant to Ms. Eisenhower: dgrove@state.pa.us
Nora Dowd Eisenhower is the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging and manages an extensive network of services through a statewide system of 52 Area Agencies on Aging. Services include family caregiving, transportation, home and community based services, Alzheimer’s programs, health and wellness education, senior community centers and nutrition programs, adult day services and protective services for older people at risk of abuse or neglect. In addition, the Pennsylvania Department of Aging administers the largest state-funded pharmaceutical assistance program for the elderly in the United States. As Secretary, Ms. Dowd advises the Governor, other cabinet officers, and members of the General Assembly on matters effecting older people.
Nora has directed programs for the elderly for over fifteen years. Before joining the Department of Aging, Nora served as the AARP Executive Director for Pennsylvania. There she directed the advocacy for almost two million Pennsylvanians over age 50. Among her responsibilities at AARP, she reorganized the state operation and developed new advocacy strategies regarding PACE, long-term care and civic engagement. Nora also directed AARP's nationwide telemarketing fraud campaign designed to combat telemarketing fraud aimed at older consumers from 1995 to 1996.
While at CARIE (The Center of Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly), she directed a federal project designed to fight Health Care Fraud among the Medicare beneficiaries. She also coordinated education, outreach and acted as the liaison with federal and state law enforcement authorities.
A native of New York, Nora is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, attending on a Regent’s Scholarship. She received her Juris Doctorate Degree from Antioch University in 1982.
Kerry Dunn, JD
kvdunn@sp2.upenn.edu
Kerry received her BA at the Evergreen State College, her JD at Rutgers-Newark, and her MSW at the University of Pennsylvania where she is currently a joint Ph.D candidate in Social Welfare and Anthropology. She has legal, administrative, and counseling experience in a variety of settings, including therapeutic foster care, housing first, special education, and criminal and juvenile justice. In addition to teaching policy and research methods courses in SP2, she has also taught in the Department of Anthropology and the Urban Studies Program. Her research concerns the production of collective identities among college students and incarcerated participants in a Philadelphia-based social change project. She also continues to work on capital murder trials and to write about the role of social workers in capital mitigation.
Rosemary Frasso, MS, MSPH, CPH
Rosemary Frasso is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice. Prior to joining our group Rosemary earned two Masters Degrees at the Harvard School of Public Health (one in Maternal Child Health and the other in Society, Human Development and Health) and she holds national certification in Public Health (CPH). Rosemary is currently working with Ian Bennett, M.D., PhD (Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health) and Drs. Phyllis Solomon and Steve Marcus on a project examining the impact of maternal literacy on pediatric health care utilization. Rosemary has extensive experience in the health care setting as an administrator and consultant and she worked for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on projects related to improving access to health care for women. Rosemary teaches Introduction to Social Work Research and Qualitative Research here at Penn, additionally Rosemary is adjunct faculty at Drexel University's School of Public Health where she teaches *Behavioral Assessment *and *Community Epidemiology.* Rosemary's interests include improving access to physical and mental health services for vulnerable populations, health disparities and health literacy.
Andrew Fussner, MSW
afussner@sp2.upenn.edu
Andrew Fussner, MSW, is a social worker and child and family therapist. He has 25 years experience in working with children, adolescents, and families in a variety of contexts including residential, out-patient, and home based settings. After 19 years on the staff of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, he currently works as a mental health consultant to the Head Start program of the School District of Philadelphia and as a consultant and trainer to a number of agencies in Philadelphia and New York. He has taught several courses on working with children, adolescents, and families at the graduate programs in social work at Rutgers University and Bryn Mawr College. A clinical member and an approved supervisor in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapist, Mr. Fussner is also licensed as a social worker in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Gloria Gay, MSW, LSW
gay@pobox.upenn.edu
Gloria M. Gay has over 30 years of experience in working with corporation and human service agencies on issues such as organizational development, human relations and equity. Ms. Gay is the Associate Director of the Penn Women’s Center and an adjunct instructor in human sexuality education in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Gay has also developed and taught courses in adolescent sexuality, counseling, human sexuality, racism and domestic violence. She was one of the recipients of the 1996 City of Philadelphia Human Relations Commission Award.
Ms. Gay received her Master’s in Social Work from the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania. She is certified as a sex education counselor by AASECT, a Certified Rape Crisis Counselor through Women Organized Against Rape, and a Certified Domestic Violence Counselor through the National Association of Forensic Counselors. Ms. Gay is the only Honorary Lifetime Board Member and has been active in the organization for many yeas, as consultant, client and staff trainer and board member. Ms. Gay has also participated in statewide training for the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Her expertise is known throughout the country and has been recognized by the Pennsylvania Attorney General through her appointment to his state-wide Family Violence Task Force.
Ira Goldstein, Ph.D., Director, Policy & Information Services, The Reinvestment Fund (TRF).
Mr. Goldstein joined TRF in 1999 to lead its research and public policy efforts. Mr. Goldstein researches broad economic development issues and the social impact of TRF’s financing work. Prior to joining TRF, Mr. Goldstein served as the director of fair housing and equal opportunity for the Mid-Atlantic region at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also teaches a quantitative research methods course for the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Goldstein holds a PhD, MA, and BA in sociology from Temple University. In 2007, he authored "Lost Values: A Study of Predatory Lending in Philadelphia."
Marcela Gutierrez, PhD
Marcela Gutierrez has a Ph.D. in Applied Anthropology from the University of South Florida. She has experience in non-profit and public sectors, including strategic planning, organizational assessment, needs assessment, peer-to peer learning communities, partnership development, and evaluation skill-building. Twenty years of experience in impact and implementation evaluation of human services, pre-K to post-secondary education, health and mental health, and broad community-based initiatives focusing on community development, families, children and youth. She is an advisor to private foundations on grant-making strategies, cultural competence, and large-scale initiative planning. Fluent in Spanish, and proficient in French.
Presently, Dr. Gutierrez is the Project Director for the OMG Center for Collaborative Learning. This involves management, coordination and implementation of evaluation and research projects for private and public funders; training, technical assistance and consultation to non-profits; strategic planning with national philanthropies, public and private grant development, grant reviewer. She has experience in urban and rural programming targeting minority populations as well as facilitation of non-profit learning communities.
Lina Hartocollis, PhD
lhartoco@sp2.upenn.edu
Lina Hartocollis is Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Director of the Clinical Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) Program at the School of Social Policy & Practice. She has been at Penn since 1997, where in addition to her administrative responsibilities, she has taught courses on foundation social work practice, advanced clinical social work practice, social work practice with children and adolescents, and mental health diagnosis. Before coming to Penn, Dr. Hartocollis taught courses on clinical social work practice, human behavior, and social theory in the Masters of Social Work programs at Smith College and Bryn Mawr College. Before she began devoting all of her energies to higher education administration and teaching, Dr. Hartocollis was a practicing psychotherapist, providing therapy to children, adults, couples and families. Her scholarly and practice interests include mental health diagnosis, psychological trauma and dissociative disorders.
Eileen Heisman, MSW
eheisman@nptrust.org
Ms. Heisman has a Bachelors of Arts with honors in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters of Social Work from the University of Michigan, and was a member of the third Wharton Fellows class in 2002 for which she received a full scholarship. She attended the Stanford University Executive Program for Philanthropic Leaders in August 2006. Eileen R. Heisman, ACFRE, has been President & CEO of the National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) since October 1998 after serving as Vice President and Senior Vice President. NPT, where Eileen worked since its inception, is a national public charity that was founded in the fall of 1996 and has gathered over $1 billion in charitable assets and manages over $640 million in charitable assets. Since its inception, NPT has made more than 20,000 grants totaling $550 million to charitable institutions throughout the country and around the world. NPT helps individuals and families reach their philanthropic goals though its charitable expertise in grantmaking, stewardship, and unique donor services. NPT has been listed among the 100 fastest growing charitable institutions in the United States by the Chronicle of Philanthropy in past three years.
Karen Hudson, MSW, LSW
hudsonk@email.chop.edu
Karen M. Hudson, MSW, LSW is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. She is currently the Community Education Department Program Coordinator at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. There she coordinates the following: the Homeless Health Initiative and community outreach presentations for the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND). Prior to this her experiences included the development and coordination of the Philadelphia Workforce Development Corporation funded welfare-to-work training program and the Caring Student Helpers Disability Awareness training program.
Ms. Hudson has over ten years of social work supervisory and managerial experience from her many years at the Children's Seashore House. She co-founded and was the program coordinator of the Safe Kids clinic, an abuse referral clinic for children with special needs who were suspected of being abused. She has presented at numerous local, regional and national conferences. Her presentations and publications have focused on her work and her passion around homelessness advocacy, promoting effective parenting skills, promoting inclusion, cultural diversity and the prevention of child abuse and neglect, specifically as it involves children with disabilities. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy& Practice.
Charles Johnson, PhD
Charles.D.Johnson@phila.gov
Dr. Charles Johnson, PhD. is currently the Director of Court and Community Services at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, Juvenile Justice Services who administers through multiple subordinate levels, major operational aspects of DHS\JJS. He is a senior manager responsible for planning, developing, administering, evaluating, and coordinating the implementation of the goals and objectives for the section. He has input in establishing the agency's comprehensive social service program's overall goals and objectives and has primary responsibility for carrying out the programs intended to meet these goals. Complete knowledge of all federal and state mandates pertaining to DHS\JJS is required. In addition this position manages the contracts of over 70 private Social Service provider agencies and reports directly to the Deputy Commissioner, DHS\JJS.
Tae Kuen Kim, MSW
kimtk@sp2.upenn.edu
Tae Kuen Kim is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. Kim received his MSW from Yonsei University, School of Social Welfare in Seoul, Korea in 2004, and his BA from Yonsei University, College of Social Science in 1999. Kim’s research interests include anti-poverty programs, income security institutions, poverty issue in developed countries, comparative welfare states, and social statistics. His current research includes a policy evaluation of workfare program in Korea, a longitudinal analysis of the effect of globalization on the welfare state, and an application of Hierarchical Linear Modeling to social work research. Kim also published a statistics textbook, Applied Regression for Social Scientists.
Susan Kinnevy, Ph.D.
kinnevy@sp2.upenn.edu
Susan Kinnevy, Ph.D., is Co-Director at the Center for Research of Youth and Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. She received her MSW from George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, a Child Development Certificate from the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Association, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her current projects at the Center involve families served by the Philadelphia Housing Authority, violence-reduction programs facilitated by The Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, victim input in parole release decisions, and the role of social workers in dependency court proceedings. Dr. Kinnevy is currently writing for publication in a special journal issue on law enforcement involvement in child maltreatment investigations. She also completed a special journal issue on federally funded HIV/Substance Abuse programs nationwide. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Kinnevy worked for 15 years in the television and motion picture industry in Los Angeles. She currently lives in South Philadelphia with her cats, Oscar and Asia.
Heather Klusaritz, MSW
hklusar2@sp2.upenn.edu
Heather Klusaritz is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, where she also received her MSW. Her research interests focus on the intersection between health care and social welfare policy, specifically access to health care for disadvantaged populations. She is currently a research assistant at the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center and is project manager for a study comparing racial disparities in health outcomes among patients treated in VA hospitals with disparities among similar patients treated in non-VA hospitals. Through her research and practice experience, Ms. Klusaritz has developed expertise in policy options for the uninsured and underinsured. She continues her clinical social work practice as a medical social worker at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Lara Rogers Krawchuk, MSW, LSW, MPH
lrkprk@yahoo.com
Lara Rogers Krawchuk is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work and the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Her direct social work practice experience has been concentrated in healthcare, including in and outpatient oncology, hospice, and cancer wellness organizations. Presently, she is in private practice with Council for Relationships, specializing in caregiving, chronic and life threatening illness, grief, professional compassion fatigue, and stress management. She is also co-founder of Healing Concepts, a psychoeducational consulting organization. Ms. Krawchuk lecturers nationally on a broad array of subjects and is a frequent speaker for the Penn Social Policy & Practice Continuing Education program.
Andrew Lamas, JD
atlamas@sas.upenn.edu
Andrew Lamas began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. His primary appointment is in the School of Arts & Sciences’ Urban Studies Program, where he focuses on the theoretical and practical dimensions, as well as the philosophical and religious bases, of social justice and economic democracy—in the context of urbanization. He also lectures in other schools and programs at Penn, including the School of Social Policy & Practice, where he teaches courses for students pursuing degrees and careers in social work, community development, and related fields. He also participates in the Global Gender Group sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program.
He was a founding board member of the Center for Community Self-Help (which, since 1980, has provided nearly $4 billion in financing to more than 40,000 small businesses, nonprofits, and homebuyers in North Carolina, with a particular focus on low-wealth minorities and women) and the Reinvestment Fund (which provides financing—with more than $250 million of capital under management—for affordable housing and community development in the Greater Philadelphia region). He currently serves on the board of the Bread & Roses Community Fund (which has distributed more than $6 million to groups in the Philadelphia area working for access to health care, economic justice, a clean, safe environment, civil and human rights, and peace) and is a senior consultant with Praxis Consulting Group—working with employee owned firms, community development financial institutions, and non-profit institutions.
Jodi A. Levinthal, MSW
levintha@sp2.upenn.edu
Jodi Levinthal is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, where she also received her MSW in 1999. She has worked within a variety of social service settings, providing individual, family and group counseling, community-based child abuse prevention and intervention, delinquency prevention and intervention through the courts, and drug and alcohol treatment in both in-patient and outpatient settings. She is currently conducting research on the quality of end of life care in VA hospitals across the country.
Jack B. Lewis, MSW, LCSW
lewisj@mail.med.upenn.edu
Mr. Lewis' clinical area of interest is psychiatric social work with emphasis on crisis intervention and in the provision of mental health services to African Americans, especially men. For the past 15 years he has worked for the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, 6 years for the Hospital and the past 9 years for the University. For 4 years Mr. Lewis served as the Associate Director of Admissions and Recruitment for the Penn School of Social Work. Mr. Lewis is presently the Director of the Office of Diversity and Community Outreach for the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. For the past three years, he has also served an appointment as a member of the adjunct faculty for the School of Social Policy & Practice in the Racism Sequence.
Mary Mazzola, MSW, EdD
mmazzola@sp2.upenn.edu
Mary Mazzola is the Associate Dean for Enrollment Management. Dr. Mazzola received her EdD in Higher Education Management at the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education. She earned her MSW degree from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice. Prior to coming to Penn, Dr. Mazzola worked in the health care arena. She has extensive clinical and administrative experience that includes serving on a senior management team of a Philadelphia hospital for five years. Dr. Mazzola returned to the School in 1994 (part-time) as a lecturer. She continues to teach courses in the clinical area. In 2000, Dr. Mazzola began her full time tenure at Penn assuming admission and recruitment responsibility for the MSW program. Currently, she is responsible for the enrollment management functions for all degree programs offered at the School. Dr. Mazzola’s research and scholarly interests include internationalization of higher education, outcomes measurement, and leadership.
Joseph McBride, MSW
mcbride2999@comcast.net
Mr. McBride has been a Part-time lecturer since 1998 at the School of Social Policy & Practice. He is currently in private practice in Lawrenceville, NJ. His areas of practice specialization include family therapy, death and dying and bereavement, coping with chronic illness and behavior problems in children. He has consulted with Compassionate Friends, Pennsylvania SIDS Foundation, the US Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime, Victims of Pan Am 103 and many other schools and organizations. He also worked both on the landmark NIH Diabetes Control and Complications Trial and the Diabetes Prevention Trial. He currently lectures extensively on the areas of family and grief, chronic illness, parenting issues, private practice in social work, and social work supervision. He is the former Chief Social Worker and the Director of Social Work Training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center and the Associate Director of the Diabetes Center for Children at Children's Hospital. His publications include articles on funeral homes, grief therapy and diabetes.
Charlene Chen McGrew, ThM, MSW
cmcgrew@sp2.upenn.edu
Charlene Chen McGrew is a PhD student in social welfare at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. Charlene earned her MSW from Penn, Th.M from Dallas Theological Seminary, and BA from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She has been a fellow at the Program for Research and Social Policy Research (PRSPR) since 2002, where she worked with Dr. Ram Cnaan on the Philadelphia Census of Congregations. She co-authored the book The Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America, and has published several articles on the role of congregations and faith-based organizations in social service provision. Her dissertation research examines urban-suburban congregational collaborations in Wilmington, Delaware, with particular attention to social justice issues. She has experience teaching in the areas of research, ethnicity in contemporary America, social policy, and building community capacity. Her practice experience is with immigrants and refugees, low-income families and communities, and youth. Her areas of special interest include community organizing and development, organizational dynamics, race relations, religion and spirituality, and cultural competency.
Edward Monte, PhD
emonte@ureach.com
Edward Monte, PhD has been in clinical practice primarily working as a couple therapist for over thirty years. For the last thirteen years, he has been a founding partner in Centra, a multidisciplinary psychiatric and psychotherapy practice group in the area. He was also Director of the Couple and Family Program at Crozer Chester Medical Center for four years and a senior clinician and supervisor in a couple therapy clinic within the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania for twelve years. He is a clinical member and approved supervisor in the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. He has extensive teaching experience in graduate and post graduate programs locally and nationally.
Nancy A. Morrow, MSW
nmorrow@sp2.upenn.edu
Nancy Morrow is currently a consultant and trainer in the field of aging and long term care. Her particular areas of interest include case management, mental health and aging, consumer-directed care, strengths-based approach, and ethical issues in long term care. Ms. Morrow regularly provides workshops and training seminars for agencies locally, statewide, and nationally. Other services she provides include program development, strategic planning, curriculum development, and grant writing. Ms. Morrow is also the Director of Development at the Supportive Older Women’s Network (SOWN). Some of her previous experience includes Executive Director of Pennsylvania Care Management Institute and the Director of Protective Services at the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging. Ms. Morrow was awarded the 2004 Agency Award by WOMEN'S WAY for her extensive work in support of older women and received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2004-2005. Ms. Morrow has also secured several grants for the School from the John A. Hartford Foundation to provide geriatric enrichment to social work education at the School, further develop community partnerships and support training initiatives in aging and social work. Ms. Morrow completed her undergraduate work in psychology at Bucknell University and received her MSW at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kim Nieves, PhD
Kim.Nieves@pacourts.us
Dr. Nieves received her BA in psychology from New School University, and both her MSW and PhD in social welfare from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. She is presently Assistant Director of Policy Research for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania where she oversees statewide topical research projects; these include examining intersections between the courts and social welfare, such as dependency, delinquency, child custody, treatment courts and death penalty litigation. Dr. Nieves’ work also focuses on the synthesis of administrative databases for social & governmental research and evaluation, and applied methods for evidence-based public policy.
Kathleen Crosson Ostertag, MSW, LSW
kathleenco@comcast.net
Kathleen is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work. She has worked for the past ten years at The Wives’ Self Help Foundation in Northeast Philadelphia. She practices clinical social work with children, adolescents and families. Her special interest is helping families of children with behavioral and /or developmental challenges. She has experience with hospital social work and with medically fragile children. Kathleen also participated in the start of a program for adults with visual and auditory deficits at Overbrook School for the Blind. Kathleen has led a number of parenting groups at her local church. Kathleen teaches Advanced Clinical Practice to MSW students at the School of Social Policy and Practice.
Walter Palmer, JD
founder1776@comcast.net
Walter Palmer has extensive teaching experience at Temple, Lincoln University and the University of Pennsylvania where he has taught in the Medical School and the School of Social Policy & Practice. He is a community activist with particular expertise in community and economic development and civil rights, who is frequently called upon to negotiate neighborhood conflicts and incidents of civil unrest.
Staci Perlman, PhD
speckham@sp2.upenn.edu
Staci Perlman is currently a Research Associate on the Evidence-Based Program for the Integration of Curricula (EPIC) in the Graduate School of Education. She recently completed her PhD in Social Welfare at the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also received her MSW Her research interests focus on using partnership-based, applied research to address the well-being needs of vulnerable young children in the child welfare system. Staci’s dissertation research focused on the impact and timing of social risks on early educational well-being. She has taught various courses at the School of Social Policy & Practice, Rutgers University, and Temple University – including HBSE, History and Philosophy of Social Welfare, Introduction to Research, Program Evaluation, and Prenatal and Early Child Development. Staci has worked as a preschool teacher, as well as a clinician for at-risk adolescents.
Tawandra Rowell, M.A.
trowell@sp2.upenn.edu
Tawandra L. Rowell is currently a doctoral student at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice. Her research interest is drug
abuse and its impact on the sexual behavior of incarcerated African American
males. Ms. Rowell received her M.A. in Criminal Justice from Rutgers
University. She has conducted research at the Department of Justice and the
Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies, and has worked on research
projects in the Center for Addiction Studies, Center for Mental Health
Services & Criminal Justice Research, and the Center for Health Disparities
Research.
Mark Salzer, PhD
Mark.Salzer@uphs.upenn.edu
Mark Salzer, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Salzer's research and teaching interests include interventions that enhance the community integration and recovery of persons woth psychiatric disabilities. Dr. Salzer publishes regularly in leading health, behavioral health, and mental health journals and books.
Arthur Schwartz, PhD
aschwart@cluemail.com
Arthur Schwartz received his MSSS from the Boston University School of Social Work and his PhD from Columbia University. In addition to his teaching at Penn, he has held faculty positions at the University of Chicago, the University of Maryland and recently he was the Scholar-in-Residence and Professor at the Center for Social Work Education, Widener University. Dr. Schwartz has consulted around the world on social work practice and mental health treatment issues. In addition, he has been a visiting lecturer at major universities in the United States and abroad. He has authored and co-authored many articles and book chapters. His books include Depression, Theories and Treatments: Psychological, Biological and Social Perspectives, (with Ruth M. Schwartz) and The Behavior Therapies: Theories and Publications.
Eric Stein, MSW
esstein@sp2.upenn.edu
Eric Stein received a B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College in 1992 and an MSW from Penn in 2003. He is a 2nd year clinical doctoral candidate in the School of Social Policy & Practice. Eric has over ten years of social services experience working in both clinical and administrative capacities in Philadelphia and San Francisco. He has worked with children, adolescents, adults, and families, with a focus on services to newly-arrived immigrants and adults with severe mental illness. His practice and research interests include mental health and co-occurring services for marginalized and oppressed populations and the organizational social context of community mental health services.
Meghan Sullivan, MSW
msulliv4@pobox.upenn.edu
Meghan Sullivan is a clinical social worker at the Counseling and Psychological Services of the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Master's in Social Work from the School of Social Work of the University of Pennsylvania. She also earned a Master's of Arts degree in Theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Prior to practicing as a clinical social worker, Meghan taught theology for ten years on both secondary and collegiate levels. Currently, she also does clinical work with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Philadelphia, as well as with adolescents at The Attic Youth Center in Philadelphia.
William Silver, DSW
silverw@sp2.upenn.edu
William Silver, DSW, is focused on the development of theory for practice. He maintains a practice in family therapy, with a specialty in couples to supplement his academic interest in attachments, and the effects of the healing relationship. He teaches advanced practice as well as family intervention at Penn. He also teaches a doctoral course in global families, and camparative family theories at Drexel's program in marital and family therapy. He is on the DSW faculty at Penn, teaching the seminar on practice.
Thomas Tantillo, MSW, MBA
tantillo@email.chop.edu
Tom Tantillo received his MSW from the University of Pennsylvania School
of Social Policy and Practice and his MBA from LaSalle University. He
has over 30 years of administrative experience in criminal justice,
healthcare and behavioral healthcare programs in non-profit,
governmental, academic and for-profit settings. He participated in the
genesis of managed behavioral healthcare, and is an expert in that area.
Tom is currently the Administrative Director of Behavioral Health at The
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Julie Tennille, MSW, LSW
Julie.tennille@gmail.com
Julie Tennille is the Senior Research Coordinator at the Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently working on and overseeing two NIH funded intervention studies with Dr. Michael Blank. One study is aimed at primary prevention of HIV in the Seriously Mentally Ill population through the use of a case manager delivered program of risk reduction education, the other, also targeting Seriously Mentally Ill adults, is aimed at improving adherence to treatment through intervention by advanced practice nurses in persons also diagnosed with HIV. Julie teaches Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice to MSW students in the School of Social Policy and Practice and has previously served as Field Liaison for this course for several years. Julie received her MSW in 1996 and has been in direct practice, services research, and administration in public mental health and HIV/AIDS services for 20 years. Julie has also worked as project coordinator with Dr. Phyllis Solomon and Dr. Irene Wong on the Community Integration study for SMI in Supportive Housing. Julie has volunteered at the Wellness Community of Philadelphia for over 7 years.
Kristie A. Thomas, MSW
kristiet@sp2.upenn.edu
Kristie Thomas is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, where she also received her MSW in 2003. Kristie’s research interests focus on the intersection of intimate partner violence and homelessness, with specific attention to women’s repeat shelter utilization. She has been involved in a number of research projects while at SP2, including a qualitative study focused on the impact of intimate partner violence on women’s perceived quality of life, and a quantitative study examining police reports of intimate partner violence involving young women in adolescence. Her practice experience includes case management, crisis counseling, and community organizing with women and spans Philadelphia, Camden, New York, and Raleigh, NC. She continues to stay connected to the community by volunteering (when she can) as a hotline counselor with a local agency serving victims of intimate partner violence.
William R. Tietjen, MSW, ACSW, LSW
tietjen@sp2.upenn.edu
Mr. William R. Tietjen, (MSW, ACSW, LSW) has been a part time faculty member since 1997. He currently maintains a private practice specializing in organizational planning, development and coaching.
Mr. Tietjen is the former Director of Social Work and Family Services at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He received his MSW at the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work (Chestnut Hill, MA.) and a BA at Providence College (Providence, Rhode Island).
Mr. Tietjen has extensive experience as a strategic, creative health care administrator at several academic medical centers across the country. His interest and work has resulted in significant organizational and human resource development, including projects that have partnered health care organizations to harness community resources in improving health services.
Mr. Tietjen is described by colleagues as innovative and forward thinking with clear professional focus on strengthening partnerships in all components of health care delivery systems. His practice is founded on core social work knowledge, skills and values that support the development of individuals, clients, organizations and communities.
Mr. Tietjen has held leadership positions with the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care of the American Hospital Association and he has been on faculty for many of this organization’s symposia. He is currently co-chair and faculty for the Society’s Leadership Institute.
Symme Trachtenberg, MSW, LSW
trachtenberg@email.chop.edu
Symme W. Trachtenberg, MSW has been a part-time faculty member of SP2
since 1990. She currently teaches Foundations of Social Work Practice
and Developmental Disabilities. Mrs. Trachtenberg has focused her 35
year career at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia on working with
and on behalf of children, youth and adults with developmental
disabilites and/or chronic illness and their families. Mrs. Trachtenberg
is the Director of Community Education at CHOP and is a Clinical
Associate in Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
William Johnston-Walsh, MSW
wjohnstonw@state.pa.us
Sharon Straub, Special Assistant to Mr. Johnston-Walsh: sstraub@state.pa.us
As Deputy Secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Aging, Mr. Johnston-Walsh provides direct support to the State Ombudsman, PDA Press Secretary, Executive Director of the PA Council on Aging, the Director of Consumer Health and the Director of the Bureau of Administrative Services.
Deputy Johnston-Walsh has a wide-ranging experience with issues that affect older Pennsylvanians. Prior to joining PDA he served as: the National Legislative Representative for Pennsylvania AARP, the Director of the Public Education and Information Unit within the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Executive Director of the Older Americans Caucus and as professional staff on the Select Committee on Aging with the United States House of Representatives.
He holds a Bachelor's of Social Work degree from Upsala College and a Masters Degree in Social Work with a focus in Gerontology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work.
The Deputy Secretary of Aging is responsible for the Department’s day-to-day management, particularly as it relates to general government operations, administration, and program integrity. Additionally, this manager maintains a close connection with the Pennsylvania Council on Aging to ensure coordination and integration of their issues and activities with the Department of Aging. This position also oversees public information functions for the Department and activities designed to assess the quality of services provided to Pennsylvania’s older citizens. Responsibilities are carried out through staff in the Bureau of Administrative Services, Press Office, and the Bureau of Program Integrity.
Steve Wilmot, MSW, MBA
wilmot@email.chop.edu
Steve Wilmot is a 1997 graduate of the School of Social Policy &
Practice and currently works at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
as Director of Specialty Care Programs and Outpatient Registration on
the Main Campus of the Hospital. A former Camp Director, Steve has
spent a great deal of his career working with children and their
families with chronic disability and illness. In addition, Steve has
worked with the homeless and families in poverty in previous roles.
Steve is a member of the Board of Directors of Variety, The Children's
Charity and one of the co-founders of the Safe Harbor Homeless Shelter
located in West Chester, PA. Steve lectures locally and nationally on
team building and group dynamics, and can be found at most SP2 functions
providing "ice breakers" and ideas for experiential teaching tools.
Steve is a member of the Alumni Advisory Council at SP2.
David Wohlsifer, PhD, LCSW
Davidmsw@aol.com
Dr. David Wohlsifer, PhD LCSW, MHA is a licensed clinical social worker and has over 12 years of experience in individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy. He is currently in private practice in Bala Cynwyd, PA, with Bala Psychological Resources. His areas of expertise include relationship and sexual concerns, adolescents and young adults, anxiety and mood disorders, trauma, substance abuse, sleep disorders, and internet and pornography addictions. He is a member of the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychiatry Residency Program. He was the Co-Director of the Center for Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Psychosexual Pathology at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Cognitive Therapy.
Caroline Wong, MSW
cwong@sp2.upenn.edu
Caroline Wong, MSW, is the Associate Director of the Master of Social Policy Program, as well as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice. She has worked as a licensed social worker for over 20 years. Her practice experience has included work with immigrants, entrants, asylees, and refugees, both in the United States and overseas; domestic abuse counseling; family counseling; and crisis intervention.
Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Wong served as the Vice President and Coordinator of Counseling Services for the Nationalities Service Center, a member agency of American Council for Nationalities Services (currently Immigration and Refugee Services of America). As a senior administrative officer she provided leadership and direction to departments and programs within a community based social service agency mandated to work with immigrants, refugees, and limited/non-English speakers.
Karen A. Zurlo, MBA, MSW
kzurlo@sp2.upenn.edu
Karen A. Zurlo is a doctoral student in social welfare at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice. She received her MSW from UPenn in 2004 and is currently conducting dissertation research on older adults and risks associated with economic security. Her research interests include older adults and the welfare state, social policy, and cross-national research.
She is a recipient of the Hartford Foundation’s Pre-Dissertation Award and has been a research assistant on grants received from the National Institute on Aging and the Rand-Hartford Foundation. She has received technical training at UPenn and at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. As a result, she has developed expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods. She also has conducted research in Austria, India, and South Korea. Ms. Zurlo values the diversity of her teaching experience, which includes teaching masters level students in the areas of Research Methods, Social Policy for Children and Families, International Social Work, and History and Philosophy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Additionally, she has lectured on Social Security and pension reform. Her practice experience includes work with a variety of vulnerable populations including older adults with severe mental illness, grandparents raising grandchildren, and urban youth and their utilization of after-school programs. Ms. Zurlo is an Associate Fellow at Penn’s Institute on Aging.