Jennifer Thompson
Director of Business Development | Valley Hope Norton
Director of Business Development | Valley Hope Norton
https://valleyhope.org/about/why-valley-hope/
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Dr. Lanny Endicott Endicott
D.Min., MSSW, LCSW, LMFT
About Dr. Lanny Endicott, D.Min., MSSW, LCSW, LMFT
With a lengthy and distinguished career in higher education, Dr. Lanny Endicott has dedicated his professional life to social work. He was the Director of the Social Work Program at Oral Roberts University (ORU) for over 47 years. Dr. Endicott continues to beinvolved in social work education both at ORU and abroad (Russia). His interests besides education include: community planning and development, social services (particularly South Peoria in Tulsa, Oklahoma), workshops in compassion fatigue and burnout, community services for military veterans including soul repair, child welfare (both in Oklahoma and Russia), and family. Lanny has earned a Doctorate of Ministry from the Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Master of Social Work from the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is affiliated with NASW, NACSW; the Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa; the South Peoria Neighborhood Connection Foundation Inc; the South Tulsa Community House and social work in Russia. Recognized by those in the field for his work, Dr. Endicott was awarded Social Worker of the Year in Oklahoma by NASW-OK in 2003. As well as being a Licensed Clinical Social Worker he is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist where he lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In conjunction with his professional interests, Dr. Endicott is a keen runner, having been Head of Cross Country and Track Coach at ORU. Ever a leader, he launched the cross country program at ORU in 1976. Their best season was in 1984 when ORU finished 11th in the NCAA National Cross Country Championships.
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D.Min., MSSW, LCSW, LMFT
Tenesha Bennett
NASW-OK Board of Directors
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NASW-OK Board of Directors
Dr. Jody Brook, MSW, Ph.D., LCSW
Associate Professor
University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare
Dr. Jody Brook received her Ph.D., with honors, from the University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare in 2005, where she is currently an Associate Professor. She has served as the Program Evaluator for 16 externally funded research projects across 3 US States which center on designing, implementing, monitoring, refining, and evaluating the ongoing implementation of services and program practices into the public child welfare, behavioral health, and court related service delivery systems that serve vulnerable child welfare involved families. Dr. Brook’s scholarship focuses on the impact of parental substance abuse and child maltreatment, and the design and delivery of public services to impact this issue. She earned her Master of Social Work at Tulane University in 1988 and has maintained a license to practice at the clinical level since 1991.
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Associate Professor
University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare
Crystal Rose-Bennett, LMSW
Clinical Social Worker
THRYVE, LLC
Crystal Rozelle – Bennett, LMSW has been working with youth and families for nearly 20 years. She is committed to empowering, engaging, educating and advocating in order to implement trauma-informed strategies for individuals and communities. Mrs. Bennett earned a Bachelor’s in Arts in Psychology from Wells College and went on to complete her Masters in Social Work from Florida State University. During her career, Ms. Bennett has demonstrated a passion in sharing her personal and professional experiences with others to serve marginalized individuals and prevent re-traumatization. She has experience in directing child & youth service programs for the Department of the Navy with a history of providing program oversight and accountability in accordance with the Department of Defense, COA, & BGCA Requirements. Additionally, she has consulted with schools on policy development and has managed residential treatment facilities and foster care programs. Ms. Bennett is a life longer learner and has provided education and support to foster families, facilitated psychoeducation programs for youth, responded to crisis hotline calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and trained behavioral healthcare professionals in the areas of Human Trafficking, Suicide Prevention, Child Trauma/Maltreatment, Motivational Interviewing, Racial Trauma, Cultural Competency and serving LGBT youth.
https://crystalthryves.com
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Clinical Social Worker
THRYVE, LLC
Cheryl Calhoun, LMSW LMAC
Social Work Instructor
K-State Polytechnic
About Cheryl Calhoun
Cheryl Calhoun is a licensed social worker and licensed addiction counselor with 13 years' experience in addiction counseling and case management. Calhoun serves as instructor in the social work program at Kansas State University Salina Aerospace and Technology Campus. She has been with the campus since 2016. She also serves as the Director of Development and as a substance use disorder counselor at Ashby House in Salina, KS.
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Social Work Instructor
K-State Polytechnic
Charles Cobble, MSSW, LCSW
Homeless Social Worker
Department of Veterans Affairs
About Charles Cobble, MSSW, LCSW
Charles B. Cobble is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Board Certified Diplomate with 5 years of experience working with a diverse and complex population. Charles graduated from University of Tennessee Knoxville with a MSSW and a Certificate in Gerontology. Charles currently works as a Homeless Social Worker for the Department of Veterans Affairs and serves as a First Lieutenant with the Tennessee Army National Guard as a Behavioral Health Officer meeting the complex needs of over 1500 soldiers and recently returned from a deployment in Kuwait. Charles is also an adjunct faculty member at Tennessee Technological University where he teaches Social Work courses and provides consultation on the Social Work academic structure.
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Homeless Social Worker
Department of Veterans Affairs
Marcia Epstein, LMSW
Counselor, Consultation and Trainer
Ms. Epstein brings decades of experience in the national suicide prevention community. She is also a social worker who lives with suicide grief. Her areas of special expertise include reducing suicide risk, support for grief after suicide or death from other causes, and support for trans and nonbinary youth and adults. Ms. Epstein served as a volunteer counselor, then as Director for 34 years, of Headquarters Counseling Center, now known as KSPHQ, which serves Kansas on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Since December 2013, her social work includes work with individual youth and adults, plus support groups, retreats, workshops, and special events for people affected by suicide. Her groups include Healing After Suicide, for suicide grief; Stayin' Alive, for living with suicide thoughts, self-harm, and attempts; and Thriving Family-Friends, for supporting suicidal loved ones. She also provides consultation and training. Ms. Epstein is Co-Chair of the national Clinician Survivor (of Suicide Loss) Task Force, a member of the Steering Committee of NAMI Douglas County, KS, and a member of the Thriving: Grief Support Team of The Light Center in Douglas County, KS. She is also the host of events at "The Intersection of Art and Mental Health.” Ms. Epstein, her husband, and their Rainn Beau pup live in an 1880’s home in Lawrence, KS.
https://MarciaEpstein.biz
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Counselor, Consultation and Trainer
Terrie Fritz, MSW, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker
University of Oklahoma
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Clinical Social Worker
University of Oklahoma
Phelica Glass, LSCSW, GCCAC, FAAGC, CSOTP
Clinical Social Worker
Private Practice
Resuscitate Me: the implementation of mindfulness practice
Course Objectives:
1. Have a working definition of mindfulness.
2. Explore the implementation meditation to minimize stress.
3. Explain and utilize 2 forms of meditation.
Phelica Glass is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker with a successful psychotherapy practice in Topeka, KS. Graduate of Washburn University with a bachelor’s in Behavioral Sciences. Graduate of Tulane University of New Orleans with a Masters in Clinical Social Work and certification of Gerontology. Through further education Phelica has attained certification in Child And Adolescent Grief Counseling, Sex Offender Treatment , Ecotherapy and Anger Management.
https://excelfullcircle.wordpress.com/
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Clinical Social Worker
Private Practice
Learn more aboutDr. Dottie Saxon Greene,PhD, LCSW, LCAS, LADAC II, CAADC, CCS, QCS, RYT
Dr. Dottie Saxon Greene,PhD, LCSW, LCAS, LADAC II, CAADC, CCS, QCS, RYT
Dr. Dottie Saxon Greene,PhD, LCSW, LCAS, LADAC II, CAADC, CCS, QCS, RYT
Coordinator for Clinical Addiction Counseling Studies, Associate Professor
East Tennessee State University
Dottie Saxon Greene, PhD, LCSW, LADAC II, QCS, RYT
• East Tennessee State University
• Associate Professor, Department of Social Work
• Graduate Coordinator for Clinical Addiction Counseling Studies
Dr. Greene has been a social worker for 20 years and an addictions counselor since 1984. Her practice experience has been primarily in the addiction field of practice. She has worked in a variety of settings, including: gender specific outpatient and residential services, adolescent intensive outpatient services, medium security prison program, community behavioral health center, outpatient psychiatric clinic, and private practice clinical supervision. Dr. Greene’s scholarship interests include self-care and well-being for social work and addiction students and professionals. Dr. Greene’s primary interest is the professional and personal well-being of social work and addiction professionals who identify as being in recovery.
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Coordinator for Clinical Addiction Counseling Studies, Associate Professor
East Tennessee State University
Amber Jewell, LMSW
Social Worker, Trainer, Speaker
Finding Hope, LLC.
Amber Jewell, LMSW has been a social worker for over 15 years working with children, families, and individuals from all dynamics and life structures. She is a foster parent, adoptive parent, and advocate for child welfare services across the country. She is compassionate, authentic, and cares for the value of all people. Amber believes all people have the ability and right to live a life that helps them be the best versions of themselves. She excels at solution-focused services that build strengths for and within people.
https://www.amberjewell.org
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Social Worker, Trainer, Speaker
Finding Hope, LLC.
Dr. Stevie Johnson
CEO The Space Program
Stevie “Dr. View” Johnson is a DJ, producer, educator and community organizer from Longview, TX. With close to ten years of college student development experience, Dr. View received his PhD in Higher Education Administration from the University of Oklahoma, in May of 2019. His written Hip-Hop & album dissertation, entitled Curriculum of the Mind: A BlackCrit, Narrative Inquiry Hip-Hop Album on Anti-Blackness & Freedom for Black Male Collegians at historically white institutions, received the 2019 Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Dr. View is the CEO of The Space Program (TSP), an independent record label hub and Hip-Hop collective; CEO of (IN)VISIBLE records; Executive Producer of Fire in Little Africa, which is a multimedia Hip-Hop Project commemorating Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District known as Black Wall Street, and the Manager of Education & Diversity Outreach for the Woody Guthrie Center & Bob Dylan Center. Dr. View is married to his wife Ariel, and is a father to his three year old son, Amir Sky.
https://www.greenwoodartproject.org/stevie-johnson
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CEO The Space Program
Dr. Deborah Johnson, MSW, LMSW
NASW - OK President
About Dr. Deborah Johnson, MSW, LMSW
Deborah Johnson, Ph.D., MSW, LMSW is the President of NASW-Oklahoma. In addition, she serves at the President-Elect of the NASW National Council of Chapter Presidents, a member of the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Social Workers, and a member of the Oklahoma State Maternal Mortality Review Committee. Deborah practices at Kaleidoscope Behavioral Solutions in McAlester, Oklahoma. Her clinical focus on children and adolescents. She is an MSW graduate of University of Oklahoma and graduated from Iowa State University with her Ph.D. in Psychology. She has held board positions on the Mental Health Association of Collier County, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) of Collier County, and several other boards in Florida and Oklahoma over her career. She has been a featured speaker at workshops, professional meetings and been featured on radio and TV programs.
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NASW - OK President
Tina Lai, LMSW
Social Worker
Tina Lai is a Licensed Master Social Worker who earned her MSW from the University of Kansas in 2020. Her professional interest is in older adult care and finding ways to reduce loneliness and isolation in aging populations. She has lived in Taiwan, Mississippi, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Alaska, and Kansas and is eager to contribute to positive social change wherever she resides. She enjoys volunteering in the local community, making quilts for others, and taking the time to wonder.
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Social Worker
Ashley Lincoln, MSW
Child Wellness Coordinator at Cherokee Nation
Child Wellness Coordinator at Cherokee Nation The HERO Project Studied Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW at The University of Oklahoma Studied Bachelor Degree of Social Work at Northeastern State University
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Child Wellness Coordinator at Cherokee Nation
Dr. Victor Manalo, MSW, Ph.D.
President of NASW-California Chapter; Retired university professor NASW-California
President of NASW-California Chapter; Retired university professor
NASW-California
Dr. Victor Manalo is the President of the NASW-CA Chapter Board of Directors, retired university professor, former city councilman and Mayor, and local government consultant. He earned a Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Southern California and a Master’s Degree in Social Work from California State University, Long Beach. For over eleven years, he served on the Artesia City Council in Southeast Los Angeles County and was active as President of the California Contract Cities Association, Regional Council Member of the Southern California Association of Governments, and Policy Board Member of the Southeast Los Angeles County Workforce Investment Board. He continues to serve as a Planning Commissioner for the city, a member of the board of directors of a local nonprofit, and as an alternate commissioner for First 5 Los Angeles. Victor has continued to lecture at California State University, Los Angeles in the School of Social Work, teaching graduate and undergraduate policy, policy practice, and community organizing. As a consultant, he is working with Los Angeles County to facilitate public-private coalitions to create healthy communities and is engaging local governments to address pedestrian safety.
https://victormanalo.com
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President of NASW-California Chapter; Retired university professor NASW-California
Margaret Otto, LSCSW
Director and Co-Founder of the KC Center of Family Systems
KC Center for Family & Organizational Systems
Margaret Otto, LSCSW is the Director and Co-Founder of the KC Center of Family Systems since its inception in 1996. She has been learning and applying Bowen family systems theory for over twenty years, which includes studying under Murray Bowen, MD and Michael Kerr, MD through the programs offered at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family. She earned a Masters in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis and then obtained clinical licensure in Kansas and Missouri. She began her study of Bowen family systems theory at the Menninger office in Kansas City. She has a full time private clinical practice as a family therapist in addition to carrying local and national responsibility for leadership of the KC Center in representing Bowen family systems theory.
https://www.kcfamilysystems.org/about/
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Director and Co-Founder of the KC Center of Family Systems
KC Center for Family & Organizational Systems
Jennifer Pribble, MSW, LCSW
Clinical Director
Western Plains Youth and Family Services
About Jennifer Pribble, MSW, LCSW
Jennifer Pribble is a licensed clinical social worker in rural Oklahoma currently serving as the Clinical Director for Western Plains Youth and Family Services. She completed her Bachelor of Social Work degree from Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Master of Social Work degree from the University of Oklahoma and is currently completing her Doctor of Social Work degree from Walden University. Ms. Pribble has previous social work experience within the field working with children and families and in social work higher education. She continues to teach social work courses as an adjunct instructor at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Ms. Pribble’s research of interest centers on rural social worker safety, focusing on the overall impact regular de-escalation, self-defense, and self-reflection training of social workers in the field has on job performance.
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Clinical Director
Western Plains Youth and Family Services
Elizabeth Pfalzgraf, LMSW
NASW KS Chapter Board President
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NASW KS Chapter Board President
Dr. Tami Radohl, Ph.D., LSCSW
Chair, Social Work, Associate Professor
Park University Social Work
Tami is an Associate Professor and Department Chair at Park University. She is also a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker #2347 in the State of Kansas. Research interests and publications include child and family mental health, personal medicine and shared decision making in mental health recovery, MSW field education, social work advocacy, and homelessness in transition-aged youth. In addition to her career in social work, academics, and mental health, Tami is also a past-President for The Junior League of Wyandotte and Johnson Counties, a non-profit that promotes volunteerism and leadership among women while supporting interests that benefit women and children in the Kansas City area and is a past board member for the Kansas Chapter of the National Association for Social Workers. She is also on the Council for Field Education, a council of the Counsel of Social Work Education, social work’s accrediting body in higher education.
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Chair, Social Work, Associate Professor
Park University Social Work
Joshua Knowles, BSW
NASW-Oklahoma
NASW-Oklahoma
https://naswok.com
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NASW-Oklahoma
NASW-Oklahoma
Wendy Funk-Schrag, MSW, LCSW
Vice President State Government Affairs
Fresenius Medical Care North America
Wendy Funk Schrag received her Bachelors of Social Work from Bethel College and her masters of social work from the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. She has spent the past 32 years working in the dialysis industry as a dialysis social worker and currently is the Vice President of State Government Affairs. She is a former President of the NASW Kansas Chapter Board of Directors. She lives in Newton, KS.
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Vice President State Government Affairs
Fresenius Medical Care North America
Victoria Stob, LCSW
Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work in the Child Study Center Yale University
About Victoria Stob, LCSW
Victoria Stob completed their Masters of Arts in Social Work at the University of Chicago in May of 2011. Following that they accepted a Post-MSW Social Work Fellowship in the Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) program at the Yale Child Study Center. Victoria joined IICAPS as a full-time Clinician in 2012 and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 2013. They specialize in integrating social-science-based research and theory into practicable clinical applications for high-risk children and families.
https://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/
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Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Work in the Child Study Center Yale University
Heather Tharp, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker
Cherokee Health Services
About Heather Tharp, LMSW
Heather holds a Bachelor of Psychology from Northeastern State University and Master of Social Work from the University of Oklahoma. She has been working for Cherokee Nation HERO Project since 2013. She currently works at the micro level as a Behavioral Health Clinician under supervision for clinical licensure with children ages 0-17, youth ages 18-23, and families. She previously worked as a Family Care Manager, collaborating with families to set goals and objectives to improve child wellness outcomes, acting as a client advocate and providing parenting classes to the community. Heather has worked at the mezzo level partnering with schools to provide various social/emotional trainings including; Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma, Brain Architecture, Toxic Stress, Social/Emotional Skill Building, Self-Care, and Suicide Prevention programs to address high adverse childhood experiences and intergenerational trauma in the student population. Heather has assisted in program development through research and implementation of grant goals and objectives for LAUNCH and Systems of Care, as well as implementing Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Grant as Project Director.
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Clinical Social Worker
Cherokee Health Services
Rhonda Weimer, LSCSW, LCSW
Clinical Social Worker and MSW Program Director
Department of Social Work Fort Hays State Universit
Rhonda Weimer received her MSW from the University of Kansas in 1993 with a concentration in Clinical Social Work. From 1993 through 2004 Rhonda worked as a Clinical Social Worker; first at Northeast Kansas Mental Health and Guidance Center (now known as the Guidance Center), and then through her private practice. She also remains active working part time as a Military Family Life Counselor with active duty and National Guard troops to address pre and post deployment difficulties. From August 2013 to July 2015 Rhonda served as Assistant professor in the Department of Social Work at Park University. She left to work more closely with Veterans at the VA Medical Center as a case manager in the Homeless Program in Kansas City Mo, but has now returned to her love of teaching by joining the FHSU faculty.
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Clinical Social Worker and MSW Program Director
Department of Social Work Fort Hays State Universit
Dr. Steven Wells, Ph.D., MSW
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Oklahoma
About Dr. Steven Wells, Ph.D., MSW
Steven P. Wells is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work, and serves as Simulation Program Coordinator. He has worked in the field of family and children services since 1976 as a child welfare worker, family mediator, foster parent trainer, group counselor, and university professor. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Oklahoma (U.S.A.) and earned a doctorate in early childhood education in 2006. He teaches courses in social work practice, interviewing skills, and human behavior. He received a “Champions of Children Award” in 2008 from The Foster Care Association of Oklahoma, Inc., and was named Undergraduate Adviser of the Year in 2012 by the O.U. College of Arts and Sciences. His interests include children with disabilities and their families, child welfare services, counseling with abusive parents, foster parent training, and family mediation. He has explored Motivational Interviewing for the last ten years as a vital model for social work practice. Most of his MI training is within the context of child welfare services and allied health. He became associated with the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) in 2017 Dr. Wells is married to a social worker and is the parent of four adult children.
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Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Oklahoma
