Deirdre Lanesskog, PhD, MPA
Title: Director / Associate Professor
Interests: Interests: Human service organizations & administration, human services work with immigrant clients, macro social work practice, immigration & social welfare policy, qualitative human services research
Armando Barragán, PhD, MSW
Title: Associate Director / Associate Professor
Interests: Latino mental health, serious mental illnesses, treatment utilization and help-seeking, ethnic minority mental health disparities, and psychiatric epidemiology
Faculty
Thomas D. Davis PhD,

Title: Professor
Interests: Substance abuse treatment, macro social work practice, research methods, and healthcare among Native Americans.
Yawen Li PhD, MSW,

Title: Professor
Interests: Social determinants of health and health behaviors, Self-management of chronic illness, home and community based long-term care services, minority older adults
Laurie A. Smith, PhD
Title: Professor
Interests: AIDS prevention and services, foster youth, technology in teaching, service learning.
Carolyn McAllister, PhD, MSW
Title: Professor
Interests: Social work practice with individuals with disabilities and their support systems, integrating disability content into social work education, transition issues for adolescents with disabilities and their families, and teaching with technology, alternate forms of instruction.
Nicole L. Arkadie, EdD, LCSW, PPSC
Title: Assistant Professor
Interests: Mental Health, positive and negative emotional responses in clinical practitioners with focus on preventative interventions. Factors that impact maternal wellness
Rigaud Joseph, PhD
Title: Associate Professor
Interests: Poverty and social welfare policies, economic self-sufficiency among low-income families, evaluation of program effectiveness, children and youth well-being, theory and scale development, empowerment practice, and social advocacy.
Caroline Lim PhD, MSW

Title: Assistant Professor
Interests: Clinical outcomes of schizophrenia; ethnic and racial disparities in mental health service use and outcomes; early intervention and prevention of schizophrenia and other psychoses; psychosis risk in vulnerable populations; quantitative research
Emily Loveland, PhD, MSW
Title: Assistant Professor
Interests: Food insecurity, poverty, human rights, social welfare policy, qualitative research methods
Herbert Shon PhD, LCSW

Title: Assistant Professor
Interests: Developing strategies that reduce barriers to accessing services among hard-to-reach populations, integrating technology into social work courses, caregiving and Alzheimer's disease.
Rachel Allinson MSW, LCSW

Title: Director of Practicum Education
Interests: Social work education, supervision of pre-licensed social workers and students, forensic issues, severe and persistent mental illness, discharge planning and community integration, and micro practice.
Shyra Harris MSW, LCSW

Title: Associate Practicum Director & Pathway Practicum Coordinator
Interests: High risk child welfare and juvenile probation, forensic issues, severe and persistent mental illness, discharge planning and community integration, medical social work, and micro practice.
Nick Watson MSW
Title: Full-time Lecturer
Interests: Child welfare, high risk youth, health policy and substance abuse.
Melinda Corral,
MSW
California State University, San Bernardino

Title: Child Welfare Outreach and Admissions Specialist
Interests: Program development, Non-Profit Management, Child Abuse prevention, Mental Health & Well-being, At-Risk Child Welfare, Community Engagement, and Grant Writing
Stephanie Schneider,
PhD, MSW
California State University, San Bernardino

Title: Grants Support Director
Title IV-E Project Coordinator/Pathway Coordinator
Interests: Child welfare, child abuse and neglect, technological innovation in social work practice, increasing technological self-efficacy in child protection work, organizational culture and policy.
Michael Edwards,
MSW
California State University, San Bernardino

Title: Child Welfare Specialist and Title IV-E Field Support
Interests: Child Welfare, Juvenile Probation, Transition Age Youth (TAY), Micro practice.
Sadania Gibbons,
LCSW

Title: Title IV-E Child Welfare Specialist
Interests: Social Work Education, Field Education, Supervision of Pre-Licensed Social Workers and Students; addressing best practices in Child Welfare, Community Mental Health, Adoptions, and Kinship Care; and meeting the needs of communities with impacted resources. Title IV-E graduate and former Child Welfare Worker.
- Aguydo, Angel
- Kevin Anderson
- Benitez, Daniel
- Peter Caro
- Deermer, Coleen
- Riba Eshanzada
- Rachel Estrada
- Gus Fierro
- Fox, Roberta
- Chiana Ghant
- Andrew Godoy
- Gonzalez, Jose
- Alicia Harris
- Robert Harris
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Hecker, Lisa
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Jones, Paul
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Karp, Blair
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Macon-Richard, Ariel
- Manio, Kurt
- Marshall, Alesha
- Mayzum, Rosa
- Meza, Jeannine
- McAlpin, Frank
- Nakamura, Jennifer
- Melancon, Sandy
- Perez, Nicholas
- Revoner, Linda
- Reyes, Alejandro
- Sierra, Jose
- Skenderian, Ann
- Smith, Amanda
- Sylvester, Heather
- Turnbull, Kathy
- Young, Tiffany
Administrative Staff
Angela Garcia
Administrative Support Coordinator - II

Janelle Gonzales
Administrative Support Assistant

Peter Nguyen
Information Technology Consultant
