Associate Director, Field Education
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
Tory Cox, Ed.D, LCSW, PPSC, the Asst. CalSWEC Project Coordinator for the California State University, Long Beach School of Social Work, manages the CalSWEC child welfare grant’s budget, teaches school social work and field education, and oversees the school’s distance education program. He was the lead editor for The Art of Becoming Indispensable: What School Social Workers Need to Know in Their First Three Years, which won the 2022 SSWAA National Book Award, and is an interim co-Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of School Social Work. Since 2019, he has been a Consulting Editor for the Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work published with CSWE’s Special Commission on Macro Social Work, NASW and Oxford University Press. From 2015-2021, Dr. Cox was a Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Virtual Academic Center’s Field Education program at the University of Southern California’s Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. In 2020-21, he was the Co-Principal Investigator of HRSA’s $3.5 million Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students grant and in 2018, he earned his Ed.D in Organizational Change and Leadership. He was the former Lead of the COBI Fellowship in Social Innovation, which won the CSWE/SAGE 2016 Award for Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education, and has co-created numerous school syllabi, including “Threat Assessment and Management.” Dr. Cox co-edited the 2016 OUP text titled School Social Work: National Perspectives on Practice in Schools, which won a national book of the year award, and is a contributing author to journals specializing in school social work.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Sunday, November 13, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM