Instructional Faculty Directory
 | Kristine E. Nelson, Dean, Professor email more Practice Experience: child welfare Research Interests: child welfare, child neglect, family preservation/family-based services, cultural issues in practice and policy, child welfare history, community-based practice, research with African American and Native American communitites |
 | Ben Anderson-Nathe, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Youth work, community education, disability support and advocacy, nonprofit
management and consulting Research Interests: Youth work, phenomenological and ethnographic methods, sexuality and sexuality education, identity and juvenile corrections, applied research in social services and public health (emphasis in HIV prevention efforts) |
 | Sarah S. Bradley, Senior Instructor email more Practice Experience: Outpatient Psychotherapy, Hospital Social Work, Relationship between psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, family treatment, managed care Research Interests: Ego psychology and social work practice, Attachment and prevention, relationship between psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, family treatment, |
 | Eileen Muench Brennan, Associate Dean for Academic and Community Affairs, Professor email more Practice Experience: program evaluation, mental health consultation, workforce development. Research Interests: work-life integration, children's mental health, adult development of women, social support, early childhood mental health, inclusive child care. |
 | Harold E. Briggs, Professor email more Practice Experience: performance management in human services, community integration of clients with developmental disabilities, child welfare, and family support in children's mental health Research Interests: performance management in human services, community integration of clients with developmental disabilities, child welfare, and family support in children's mental health |
 | Katharine Cahn, Executive Director; Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: In service of children, youth, and families, have worked as an organizer, trainer/facilitator, program developer, fundraiser/ grant writer, agency supervisor, manager, and director. Research Interests: program evaluation, action research and qualitative methods. Study of organizational and systems change strategies and processes with particular attention to the process of taking an innovation up to scale. Using research to promote a better child welfare system with particular attention to improved outcomes for children of color, family and community engagement, leadership development and multi-disciplinary collaboration. |
 | Daniel Coleman, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: Community mental health practice with children, families and adults, including severe and persistent mental illness, and in inpatient, partial hospital and outpatient settings Research Interests: Clinical process and outcome research, multicultural practice |
 | Kevin Corcoran, Professor email more Practice Experience: empirical evaluation of practice, conflict mediation, clinical measurement Research Interests: Evidence-based practices, adolsecent sexuality and teenage families, social and economic capital investment in the US and Finland. |
 | Victoria Cotrell, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: Community mental health practice with older adults and families |
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 | Ted Donlan, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Latino adolescent services, aging services, homeless services, program evaluation Research Interests: health and mental health services for migrant farmwworkers, cultural competence in services to Latino populations, multicultural practice, qualitative research methods, consumer direction in social services, aging and disability, program evaluation |
 | Ginger Edwards, Salem MSW Distance Option Site Coordinator email more Practice Experience: Child Welfare, Children's Mental Health |
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 | Mindy Holliday, Director-Graduate Education Program/Distance Graduate Education Option, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: community organizing, juvenile justice, family preservation and child welfare. Research Interests: child welfare, gay/lesbian issues, multi-cultural practice, ethnographic research on women's lives. |
 | Richard Hunter, Director, Child Welfare Education Program email more Practice Experience: child welfare, children's mental health, school social work, community organizing |
 | Pauline R. Jivanjee, MSW Program Director, email more Practice Experience: community-based practice, child welfare, mental health, aging services, individual and family counseling, services to children and adults with disabilities and their families Research Interests: participatory research, youth transitions, community integration, family support and family centered services, youth and family participation in service planning and evaluation |
 | Thomas E. Keller, Duncan and Cindy Campbell Professor for Children, Youth, and Families email more Practice Experience: youth mentoring programs, non-profit employment services Research Interests: youth mentoring, relationship development, child and adolescent development, attachment theory and research, community-based youth programs, child welfare and child mental health services |
 | Nancy M. Koroloff, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Sponsored Projects email more Practice Experience: family support and children's mental health services, consumer involvement in policy development, history of social work in Oregon |
 | Joy DeGruy Leary, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: multi-generational trauma of African-Americans, methods of mental health treatment for people of color Research Interests: multi-generational trauma of African-Americans, methods of mental health treatment for people of color |
 | Junghee Lee, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: child welfare, American Indian students retention in higher education, program evaluation Research Interests: political economy and health care for the poor, child welfare; community readiness, community-based practice, evidence-based practice, research with Asian and American Indian communities. |
 | Ellen Masterson, Director Field Education, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Day health services for frail elderly people and their families (program management and direct service provision) |
 | Bowen McBeath, Assistant Professor email more Research Interests: Organization and management: human service delivery systems, bureaucracies, and nonprofit organizations; interorganizational collaboration and competition; deviance, accidents, innovation, and creativity; and performance management, implementation/execution, and governance of interorganizational systems. Public policy: privatization and purchase of service contracting; poverty policy; and child and family policy. Communities: civic institutions; collective action; political and civic participation; social capital; and urban politics. Methodology: econometric methods for panel studies; event history analysis; multi-level modeling; and participatory action research and utilization-focused evaluation. |
 | Jana L Meinhold, Assistant Professor email more Research Interests: Lifespan development (Positive youth development, Self-efficacy across the lifespan, Well-being across the lifespan);
Environmental behaviors, knowledge, and attitudes;
Family relationships (Sibling relationships across the lifespan, Normative and nonnormative life transitions, Sibling relationships and well-being)
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 | Paula Bates Mike, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: predictors of success in graduate education; social work intervention with drug and alcohol-addicted pregnant women, intergenerational family therapy Research Interests: predictors of success in graduate education; social work intervention with drug and alcohol-addicted pregnant women, intergenerational family therapy |
 | Pamela Miller, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: Hospice, Home Care, Nursing Care Facilities, Family Practice Clinics at University of Iowa, Director of Social Work at Southern Maryland Hospital, Family Planning of Portage County (Ohio), Research study for DSM-III, Ohio Youth Authority Research Interests: Current research project is on hospice social workers and Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. Also a focus on best practices in end-of-life and palliative care. |
 | Matthew J. Modrcin, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: the helping relationship, severe and persistent mental illness, family centered practice, men's issues, strengths based perspectives Research Interests: the helping relationship, severe and persistent mental illness, family centered practice, men's issues, strengths based perspectives |
 | Carol Morgaine, Professor, Director, Child and Family Studies email more |
 | James K. Nash, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: community mental health clinical case management with children, adolescents, and their families Research Interests: etiology, prevention, and treatment of aggressive behavior and delinquency in children and adolescents, promotion of optimal development in children and adolescents, quantitative research methodology |
| Kristine E. Nelson, Dean, Professor email more Practice Experience: child welfare Research Interests: child welfare, child neglect, family preservation/family-based services, cultural issues in practice and policy, child welfare history, community-based practice, research with African American and Native American communitites |
 | Laura Burney Nissen, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: strength-based approaches, community collaborative change models, service innovations Research Interests: strength-based approaches, community collaborative change models, service innovations |
 | Laurie E. Powers, Professor email more Practice Experience: adolescent transition to adulthood, interpersonal violence, person-directed support and self-help Research Interests: promotion of self-determination by individuals with diverse abilities, their families and communities; youth development and transition, interpersonal violence, person-directed services, peer-delivered services, mental health transformation. |
 | Janet S. Putnam, Director of Student Affairs, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: social work skill acquisition, needs assessment Research Interests: social work skill acquisition, needs assessment |
 | Linda S. Reilly, Instructor, M.S.W. Distance Learning Option, Site email more Practice Experience: delivery of services to families, especially parent education; the impact of catastrophic illness on families Research Interests: delivery of services to families, especially parent education; the impact of catastrophic illness on families |
 | Julie M. Rosenzweig, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: residential treatment of children, school social work, individual, couple and family therapy, older adults, program planning and administration, staff supervision Research Interests: psychological sex roles, family and work, women's adult development |
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 | Susie Snyder, Assistant Professor email more Practice Experience: Therapist/trainer/consultant; clinical services to children, adolescents, adults, and families; social work in schools; community mental health; narrative therapy. Provide individual and group clinical supervision to social workers and counselors working on licensing. Provide consultation and training at various agencies around Portland and in other regions. Research Interests: Collaborative and narrative approaches to social work practice, supervision, and teaching. |
 | Maria Talbott, Director, PhD Program in Social Work and Social Research. email more Practice Experience: direct service and program administration in older adult services Research Interests: social work with older adults, hoarding, grief and widowhood, social support, working with older adults with dementia; elder abuse |
 | Michael Taylor, Assistant Professor, Social Work-Child and Family Studies; Family Studies Cluster Coordinator, University Studies Program email more Practice Experience: Direct practice of clinical social work with children, adults and families; supervision and management of mental health and child welfare programs; Quality assurance and contract monitoring for private and public mental health programs. Research Interests: Strengths-based assessment and practices, inclusion of parents in mental health services, developing and sustaining community-based systems of care for children and adolescents. |
 | Delores S. Teller, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Family of Origin focus,private practice working with adults, couples,group therapy.University Center for Student Health and Counseling. Trainer/lecturer on post adoption theory/practice; legislative reform and social activism. Research Interests: Open adoption, adoption theory, policy and practice. Female sexuality/sexual identity development. |
 | Gretchen Thiel, Instructor; Site Coordinator, Ashland, Distance Education Option email more Practice Experience: public child welfare. |
 | Vikki L. Vandiver, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: community health practice, programs for persons with severe and persistent mental illness, cross-cultural mental health systems Research Interests: community health practice and policy, evidence-based mental health practice, traumatic brain injury, health promotion |
 | Stephanie Wahab, Associate Professor email more Practice Experience: interpersonal violence, commercial sex work, motivational interviewing, community organizing, anti-oppression Research Interests: gender based violence, commercial sex work, motivational interviewing, participatory and qualitative methods, oppression, privilege and liberation |
EMERITI FACULTY
 | Sandra C. Anderson, Professor Emerita email more Practice Experience: family-centered practice with individuals, couples, and families |
 | Arthur Emlen, Professor Emeritus, Director (1973-1989), Regional Research Institute for Human Services email more Practice Experience: Child Welfare, Rural Child Welfare, Community Development Research Interests: Child Welfare; Work, Family & Dependent Care |
 | Barbara J. Friesen, Professor Emerita, Director, RTC on Family Support and Children's Mental Health email more Practice Experience: organization and administration of social services, self-help and advocacy groups and organizations, mental health, family support |
 | Joan F. Shireman, Professor Emerita email more Practice Experience: foster care services, adoption, day care. |
ASSOCIATED FACULTY
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Michael H. Balter, Executive Director: The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon email more Practice Experience: Executive Director - The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon is a five million dollar nonprofit child welfare agency founded in 1885. Services range from adoption and pregnancy counseling, to foster care and residential treatment for young women. Manager: Mental and Emotional Disability Services, Multnomah County, Oregon Research Interests: Child Welfare (Adoption, Foster Care and Residential Treatment), Juvenile Justice and Public Policy Advocacy |
Steve Berman, Instructor email more Practice Experience: youth and family work, direct practice, supervision, program management, clinical supervision for social workers seeking licensure. |
Samantha Blanchard, Instructor more |
 | Jean Cavanaugh, Chief Accounting and Budgetary Officer email more |
 | Diane Cole, Instructor, Site Coordinator, Bend, Distance Education Option email more Practice Experience: residential addictions treatment, work with low-income students in higher education, work with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness Research Interests: mental health/addictions, educational attainment for non-traditional students, evaluation, fetal alcohol syndrome/effects, psychopharmacology |
 | David Fuks, Chief Executive Officer, Cedar Sinai Park, Robison Jewish Health Center; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Social Work email more |
 | Karen L. Harrington, AmeriCorps*VISTA, Community Service Specialist email more Practice Experience: As a Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA) working at the School of Social Work I get to wear many hats. VISTA is a federally funded AmeriCorps branch specifically dedicated to eradicating poverty by supporting systems and institutions that serve marginalized populations. During my year as a VISTA at the SSW ,thus far, I have been assisting the field team, extending an asset mapping survey to students, and working on development of community partnerships for possible field placements and capstone expansion. I feel fortunate to have this opportunity to reflect on theories I have learned in my undergraduate studies in Sociology and see how they can be applied in the realms of social work. Research Interests: Youth Subcultures, Graffiti, First Generation Students Success, Gentrification, Poverty, Homelessness, Myth of Meritocracy |
Tim Hartnett, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Tim Hartnett is the executive director of Comprehensive Options for Drug Abusers (CODA), Portland's oldest comprehensive alcohol and drug treatment agency. He has been devoted to working with hard-to-reach populations ranging from the most recalcitrant juvenile delinquents to homeless persons suffering from severe and persistent mental illness and substance use disorders. He has worked as a school teacher, direct-service worker, program director, research partner, consultant, state policy maker, and agency executive. Prior to coming to CODA, Mr. Hartnett was director of the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Recovery for the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services. |
Susan C. Hedlund, Instructor Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine, Oncology Social Worker, Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital, Instructor of Social Work email more |
Glenn Huntley, Assistant Director, Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services email more |
 | Paul E. Koren, Research Associate, Systems Analyst email more Research Interests: database design, programming, web development, data analysis |
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 | Andrew J McCormick, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Health care in hospitals and community clinics, palliative care, end-of-life care, founding member of Emerge: A Men's Counseling Service on Domestic Violence, teen foster care, child care. Research Interests: Training social workers in palliative care, biomedical ethical issues at the end of life, racial disparities in health and at the end of life. |
Bahia Overton, Recruitment and Retention Specialist email more |
 | Melanie Sage, Instructor, Field Liason, Graduate Research Assistant email more Practice Experience: child welfare practice, training and development,
field education, mental health. Research Interests: child protection (workforce, foster care, visitation, training and development), adult learning, qualitative and participatory research |
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 | Lisa M. Stewart, Instructor email more Practice Experience: Mental health, domestic violence, gerontology, homeless youth, policy research, program evaluation, organizational change and organizational development. Research Interests: Work-life integration for families with children who have disabilities, children's mental health, evidence-based practice, participatory action research, research methods, institutional change. |