School of Social Work News

Assistant professor, Kristin Seefeldt is presenting at the Administration for Children and Families' annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference on May 28, 2014. She will be live streamed for the 4 pm session.
 

Lilita Matison, MSW '00, published her first children’s book called, "Bye-Bye Butterflies: Seven Ways To Breathe Out Worry".

Lindsay Matthews, MSW '12, is working for University of Michigan as a medical social worker.

Marcia Naomi (Fisch) Berger, MSW '68, a psychotherapist and clinical social worker, had a book published in February of this year.  The book is titled Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love: 30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You’ve Always Wanted.

Mary Neal, MSW '05, has been working in the addiction and recovery field for more than ten years.

Nancy D’Angelo Kusmaul, MSW '00, is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the College at Brockport.  She completed her PhD in social welfare at the University at Buffalo in 2013.  Her dissertation is titled “Understanding the Direct Care Workforce in Nursing Homes: A Study of Life Circumstances and Organizational Factors and Their Relationship to Caring Behaviors and Knowledge.”

Nancy Hatcher, MSW '72, was named the Social Worker of the Year and awarded the Jill Solomon Award for Excellence in Social Work by the National Hemophilia Foundation at its annual meeting in November.  Nancy was selected from an elite group of social workers that care for hemophilia patients all across the United States.  Nancy serves on national and regional committees and is a member of the NHF Ethics Advisory Committee.

Nancy Kriseman, MSW '82, has been working with elders and their families for more than 30 years.  In February 2014 Rowman and Littlefield published her book entitled: The Mindful Caregiver: Finding Ease in the Caregiving Journey.