Associate Professor/Program Director
Clark Atlanta University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Dr. Jones, LMSW, is an Associate Professor and Program Director for the Center for Interprofessional Collaboration and Education at Clark Atlanta University. She has acquired grant funding from HRSA through the Behavioral Health Workforce Education Training program for Professionals, and is also a co-principal investigator of a Google Health grant. Both grants provide student stipends and additional behavioral health and data science trainings that will strengthen future social work students and the profession.
Her teaching philosophy is grounded in the belief that as an educator, her role is to facilitate students in acquiring the knowledge and skills that will assist them in becoming competent clinical social workers. Her approaches attempt to expand the parameters of what is possible, what should be acknowledged and managed inside of the assessment process with great integrity from the perspective of a social worker. Dr. Jones strive to create an environment where students are encouraged, feel empowered to express themselves, and are engaged in the process of learning. Her objectives as an instructor are: to create a safe learning environment that will foster constructive scholarship; to combine theory and application to trigger student interest for knowledge; and to enhance critical thinking beyond the classroom.
She has presented and published on interprofessional collaborations, mentoring relationships , and effective teaching strategies alongside Afrocentric perspective concepts. Dr. Jones received her Bachelors of Science in Criminal Justice from Virginia State University, a Masters in Social Work from Howard University and a PhD in Social Work from Morgan State University.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM