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Social work faculty at the University
of Maine have a wealth of academic specializations which add to the
strength of the generalist perspective of social work to which the
school is committed. In addition to their research and teaching, faculty
are effectively engaged in both professional and public service
activities at the local community level, state-wide, nationally, and
internationally. This active involvement by faculty ensures that
students receive an education which is both current and practical.
Sandra
Butler Associate Professor
M.S.W. Washington University
Ph.D. University of Washington
Dr. Butler teaches courses in social
welfare policy and macro social work practice. Her research focuses
primarily on the health needs and social
welfare experiences of low-income women across the life span. Her
publications are in the areas of poverty, homelessness, welfare, rural
aging, the impact of higher education for low-income mothers, GLBT
aging, lesbian health, teen parenting and pregnancy, and policy
practice.
She was a Hartford Geriatric Social
Work Faculty Scholar from 2001 to
2003, which allowed her to expand her teaching, scholarship and
community service in the area of aging. In 2010, she became a Hartford
Faculty Research Mentor. Since its inception in 2001, she
has been affiliated with the University of Maine Center on
Aging,
participating on several research and service projects. In 2008
she received an Academic Research Enhancement Award (R-15) from the
National Institute on Aging to look at retention and turnover among home
care workers, with a particular focus on older workers. This is a
three-year project that involves student training in research methods.
She has served on the boards of a
variety of community and state
organizations including the Maine Women's Lobby, Maine Women's Policy
Center, Family Connections (serving kinship families), Spruce Run
(battered women's program), and the Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health
Center. She has been involved in legislative advocacy on welfare,
providing assistance to kinship families, and civil rights for gays and
lesbians. From 2002-2004, Dr. Butler coordinated the statewide
Relatives as Parents Project (RAPP) Network. She served on an advisory
panel for a national needs assessment regarding services of GLBT elders
from 2002-2003. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Poverty,
Journal of Community Practice, and the Journal of Gerontological
Social Work
and a consulting editor for Health and Social Work.
Sandy.Butler@umit.maine.edu
Elizabeth DePoy Professor
M.S.W. University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Dr. DePoy is jointly appointed as
professor in the School of Social Work
and Coordinator for Interdisciplinary Disability Education at the Center
for
Community Inclusion and Disability Studies. She is a nationally and
internationally recognized scholar in research and evaluation methods,
theory development focusing on disability as human diversity, and
received a Fulbright Scholarship in 2003. Dr. DePoy has authored and/or
co-authored seven books, has contributed chapters to numerous edited
collections, and has published over 50 peer reviewed articles. She
teaches courses in social work research, evaluation, grant writing and
disability studies. Her research interests and journal publications
embrace health, universal access, disability as human diversity,
research methodology, and evaluation. Dr. DePoy’s recent publications
include co-authored books on evaluation, disability, and most recently
the, third edition of her book, Introduction to Research.
Over the past several years, Dr. DePoy
has raised over two million dollars in federally funded research dollars
and is currently working collaboratively on a research agenda to
development and test an intelligent web interface to provide universal
access to web-based and electronic information. She is a member of more
than a dozen professional associations, societies and task forces at
state, national, and international levels and presents her work
throughout the world.
edepoy@maine.maine.edu
Stephen
F. Gilson Professor
M.S.W. University of Denver
Ph.D. University of Nebraska Medical Center
(medical sciences degree, specialization in psychiatry)
Dr. Gilson splits his time among the
School of Social Work, the Certificate in Health Care Administration
Program administered through the College of Business Public Policy and
Health, and the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies.
In the School of Social Work, he teaches courses in human biology for
social workers, human behavior and the social environment, and advanced
policy. He teaches health policy in the Health Care Administration
Certificate Program and disability studies and universal access in the
Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies. Dr. Gilson is
internationally recognized for his scholarship and activism in expanding
civil rights and universal access to disabled populations. His research
interests and publications have focused on experiences of domestic
violence and women with disabilities, disability theory, disability as
diversity, universal access, and health and disability policy and
advocacy. Dr. Gilson has authored and/or co-authored 5 books, has
contributed many chapters to edited collections, and has over 40
articles published in peer reviewed journals. He is currently pursuing a
collaborative research agenda to develop and test software that will
provide universal access to web and electronic information. Dr. Gilson
presents his work locally, regionally, nationally and internationally
and has collaborative relationships with international scholars.
Dr. Gilson is extremely active in his
service commitments. At the university, he sits on the Executive Council
of the faculty senate, is the secretary of the faculty union, and is
seated on several university wide and presidential commissions related
to campus access and teaching excellence. He serves on numerous local
and national boards through membership and elective office.
stephen_gilson@umit.maine.edu
Lenard
W. Kaye Professor, Director of the Center on Aging
M.S.W. New York University
D.S.W. Columbia University
Dr. Lenard W. Kaye is Professor of
Social Work at the University of Maine School of Social Work and
Director of the UMaine Center on Aging in the College of Business,
Public Policy & Health. During the 2000-2001 academic year he was the
Visiting Libra Professor in UMaine’s College of Business, Public Policy
& Health. Previously, he was Professor of Social Work and Social
Research and Director of the Ph.D. Program at the Graduate School of
Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and
Associate Director of the Brookdale Institute on Aging & Adult Human
Development at Columbia University.
A prolific writer in the field of
social gerontology, he has published approximately 100 journal articles
and book chapters and 12 books on specialized topics in aging including
older men, home health care, productive aging, rural practice, family
caregiving, controversial issues in aging, support groups for older
women, and congregate housing.
Kaye has been the principal
investigator and director of research/evaluation for numerous
assessments of innovative community services for older adults including
projects funded by the AARP Andrus Foundation, Corporation for National
and Community Service, Maine Health Access Foundation, Pew Foundation,
Families USA Foundation, U.S. Administration on Aging, John Hartford
Foundation, Philadelphia Corporation on Aging, and the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania Office on Aging. He is the principal investigator of the
Maine Health Access Foundation-funded Maine Partners for Elder
Protection Project and the John Hartford Foundation-funded Geriatric
Social Work Curriculum Infusion Project at the UMaine School of Social
Work. He is also the co-principal investigator of the Maine Primary
Partners in Caregiving Project and an Osteoporosis Action Plan
Initiative both funded through the U.S. Administration on Aging.
Dr. Kaye sits on numerous national
boards including those of the: National Advisory Committee for Rural
Health and Human Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services; the National Advisory Board of Alzinfo of the Fisher Center
for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, Rockefeller University; the
Hartford Geriatric Enrichment in Social Work Education Program; and the
Association of Gerontology in Social Work Education as well as the
advisory boards of Medical Care Development, Eastern Area Agency on
Aging the Maine Gerontological Society, and the University of Maine
Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companion Program.
He is the Past Chair of the National
Association of Social Worker's Section on Aging, sits on the editorial
boards of Social Work Today, the Journal of Gerontological Social Work,
and Geriatric Care Management Journal, and is a Fellow of the
Gerontological Society of America.
Len_Kaye@umit.maine.edu
Nancy
A. Kelly Field Coordinator
MSW. Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Ms. Kelly is Field Coordinator and
Chair of the MSW. Admissions Committee. She teaches
field-related courses and seminars and also teaches in the area of human
behavior and the social environment. Her research interests include
child welfare, mental health, diversity issues,
and social work administration.
In addition to arranging field
placements for all BASW and MSW students, Ms. Kelly is co-organizer of
the School's annual Child Welfare Conference, chair of the planning
committee for Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Week, and a member of
the planning committee for Mental Illness Awareness Week. In addition to
state-wide committees on Child Welfare issues, Ms. Kelly has served on
various community social service agency boards.
nakelly@maine.edu
Kelly Jaksa
MSW Boston University, LCSW, State of Maine
Kelly Jaksa, LCSW has been a social worker since 1988 and obtained her
MSW from Boston University in 1994. Kelly worked with children,
adolescents and their families for 13 years in community, residential,
school and hospital settings. From 2002 until 2008, Kelly was the
community mental health liaison
for the University of Maine's school of Social Work Program. She was a
field instructor for 25 students. Kelly began teaching in the Social
Work Program in 2005 as an adjunct faculty member. She has taught both
undergraduate and graduate classes in practice, diversity, adolescent,
group and family social work practice. Beginning in Fall 2010, Ms.
Jaksa will coordinate the undergraduate program in social work.
Kelly.Jaksa@umit.maine.edu
Winston
Turner Adjunct Professor,
Project Evaluation Coordinator
M.A. DePaul University (experimental psychology)
Ph.D. Brandeis University (health policy)
Dr. Turner teaches on the area of
social work research and has been the project evaluator for several
state and national evaluation projects. In his role as evaluator, he has
managed numerous federal
and state grants and contracts. Since his arrival in 1998, he has
provided program evaluation services for grants and contracts to Maine's
Native American communities, the Center on Aging, the Research and
Evaluation Program within the Department of Education and the Margaret
Chase Smith Center for Social Policy.
Dr. Turner has extensive experience
directing research projects
relevant to health policy in a variety of interest areas including
substance abuse, homelessness, persons with long-term mental
illness, and the assessment of treatment outcomes. He also serves
as a grant reviewer for the Department of Health and Human
Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA). Over the past three decades, Dr. Turner
has taught in the Psychology, Physical Therapy and Social Work
departments of numerous universities in Massachusetts and Maine.
He serves on several dissertation committees each year and is a
past member of the University's Institutional Review Board.
Dr. Turner operates a private consulting business (Northeast
Research Services) out of his Blue Hill home providing services such
as program evaluations, research design and statistical
consultation, data analyses, grant writing, data systems
development and professional management workshops.
Win_Turner@umit.maine.edu
Gail
B Werrbach Associate Professor and Director
MSW. Simmons College
Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin
LCSW State of Maine
Dr. Werrbach is associate professor of
social work and teaches courses in family therapy, advanced practice
with children and families and integrative seminar courses. Her research
interests and publications are mainly in the areas of child mental
health, models of family therapy, and community mental health training.
Dr. Werrbach has over 10 years
experience providing clinical social
work services to children and families. Since her arrival at the
University of Maine in 1988, she has provided evaluation
consultation for various state and local agencies that serve children
and families, including the State of Maine Department of Mental
Health, Mental Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services, the
Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy (Wings for Children
and Families Project), and the St. Michael's Center Program (Home
Based Family Services). Dr. Werrbach has also received and
administered Child Welfare training grants from the US Department
of Health and Human Services. She was co-principal evaluator of a
five-year project for the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township,
establishing a community-based system of care for children's
mental health. She is currently the principal investigator for a new
international social work initiative funded by the US Department of
Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education.
Gail_Werrbach@umit.maine.edu
