MSASS Field Education Faculty and Staff
The Field Education Department |
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Scott Wilkes LISW-S, JD 216-368.2240 saw31@case.edu
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Mr. Wilkes is currently the Director of Field Education at MSASS. He joined the Field Education Department in the fall of 2007 as a Field Faculty Advisor. He has more than 15 years of experience working in the area of child welfare. He received his BSW from the City University of New York, Lehman College and his MSW from Columbia University. He is also a graduate of the CWRU, School of Law. Currently, he is a PhD candidate at MSASS. His area of expertise is child welfare, children’s mental health, and program development. Prior to coming to MSASS he worked as Vice President of Corporate Development with a national foster care agency and was the Director of a managed care pilot and an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic with Beech Brook. Scott currently teaches the Field Seminar and has taught, Social Policy, Social Work Ethics, Theories of Diversity, Discrimination and Oppression, and Social Work Research. |
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Henrietta Jones Administrative Assistant 216.368.2292 hpj@case.edu |
Ms. Jones has been a staff member of MSASS since 1979 and with the Field Education Department since 1990. She is a 1987 graduate of Programming Systems Institute. She has attended Dyke College and Cuyahoga Community College. Ms. Jones assisted in school reaccreditations in 1985 and 1993. She completed two surveys in 1988 for Dr. Sharon Milligan; one was for the Northeast Ohio Arthritis Center, Lupus Study and the other was for Simba/Malaika Network. She was a member of the Staff Advisory Council Committee at CASE from 1997 to 1999, and has participated on the Work Environment Committee at MSASS since 1995. She received the 2001 Bea Lenora Benson Staff Award for “Recognizing Excellence and Professionalism in 2001,” and the MSASSy Award in 2007. |
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Beth Brindo MSSA, LISW 216-368-5598 beth.brindo@case.edu |
Mrs. Brindo, has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ursuline College, a Master of Social Science Administration degree from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Science, and is a Licensed Independent Social Worker- Supervisor in the State of Ohio. As a Field Faculty Advisor and clinical instructor her primary focus is Children, Youth and Families. She advises intensive weekend students who are employed at public child welfare agencies, which includes a cohort of Fellows who are participants in the MSASS Child Welfare Training Initiative. Prior professional experience includes over twenty-five years in leadership and foster care & adoption programs at Bellefaire JCB, Catholic Charities and many public/private collaborations. She has traveled internationally to conduct training and research in such countries as Guatemala, Romania, and Ethiopia. Some other areas of professional participation include: Advisory Council Member at the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C. and as consultant with the National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids. |
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Kirsten H. Gail MSSA, LISW 216.368. 5879 khg9@case.edu
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Ms. Gail is a Field Faculty Advisor with a primary focus on community and social development. She has a BA from Kenyon College, a MSSA from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Science, and is a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the State of Ohio. Her professional experience includes serving as the Community Education/Relations Specialist for Pathways, the Executive Director of Euclid Community Concerns, and 10 years as the Ward 1 Councilwoman for the City of Euclid. She has also been actively involved in many community task forces, committees, and planning efforts. In addition to her position at MSASS, Ms. Gail currently serves as the President of Euclid City Council. |
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Kathi O. Gant MSSA, LISW-S 216.368.3024 kxo@case.edu
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Ms. Gant is a part time Field Faculty Advisor who graduated from the Intensive Weekend Program at MSASS in 1990. She has over 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She has held multiple positions in the social work and hospital healthcare field including: clinician working with adults and adolescents and their families, marketing and management, program and business development, and education. Previously she taught mental health crisis intervention for EMS and paramedic students. Kathi has taught Human Development Across the Lifespan at MSASS for the last 14 years. She currently teaches Problem Identification and Assessment and the Field Education Seminar. In addition to her responsibilities at MSASS, Ms. Gant is a practicing clinician in private practice on the west side of Cleveland. |
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Marjory Klein MSSA, LISW-S 216.368.0709 mxk28@case.edu
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Ms. Klein has been a Field Faculty Advisor at MSASS since 1996. Prior to that time she chaired the MSASS Field Forum Steering Committee and served on a task force to evaluate field education. She is an MSASS alumna and a graduate of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. She is an LISW-S with over 20 years of experience in mental health settings as a clinician and as an administrator. She has served as Clinical Consultant to the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center for 10 years and has provided clinical supervision to mental health professionals in the community. She currently teaches a section of the Field Education Seminar and serves on the Aging Concentration and the Field Education Sequence Committees. She assumes additional field responsibilities for the Dual Diagnosis Program and the Hartford Foundation grant. |
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Nancy Neuer ACSW, LISW-S 216.368.3997 nxn14@case.edu |
Ms. Neuer has an undergraduate degree in Sociology-Social Work from Elmira College in Elmira, NY and an MSSA from MSASS. She has been a Field Faculty Advisor at MSASS since June, l997 and teaches a section of the Field Education Seminar each fall. In addition, she is a member of the Health Concentration and Field Education and Methods Sequences. Prior professional experience includes employment at The Mental Development Center at Case Western Reserve University, MetroHealth Medical Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and The Achievement Centers for Children. She has a private practice in the Cleveland area. |
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Lori Longs Painter ACSW, LISW-S 216.368.2240 llp14@case.edu
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Ms. Painter is a Field Faculty Advisor for the Intensive Weekend program and adjunct faculty. She is an MSASS alumna with over twenty years experience in private foster care and adoption agencies. She served in clinical and administrative capacities in management, supervision and direct service. She has worked on child welfare and child advocacy issues and developed staff trainings in Ohio and Kentucky. She has been a field instructor for University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University Schools of Social Work. Her work in program and organizational community development emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach. She is developing stomping ground™, restorative learning and leisure opportunities for adult development. It is designed to offer dynamic methods in maintaining a balance between interests, abilities and challenges as critical to the individual’s civic participation in her greater community. |
