Ms. Sue Black
Title: Assistant Professor of Social Work, Field Coordinator for the Social Work Program
School: Arts & Letters
Academic Department: Social Work
Phone: 814-472-3091
E-mail: sblack@francis.edu
Office Location: 215 Scotus Hall
Office Hours: Monday 12:30-1:30, Tuesday and Thursday 11-12, Wednesday: 1230-2:30, or by appointment
Education
MSSA: 2002 Case Western Reserve University, Emphasis, Management BSW: 1997 St. Francis University
Biography
Courses Taught
Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Intro to Social Welfare, Field Instruction (Junior and Senior Year), Processes II, Gerontology, Death, Dying and Grief, Psychosocial Issues in Patient Care
Research Interests:
- Services available to the aging, companioning those experiencing grief, death, and loss
Field Experience
Geriatric Social Worker
Garvey Manor Nursing Home
Hollidaysburg, PA
Home Health Social Worker
Home Nursing Agency
Altoona, PA
Mental Health Therapist
Nulton Diagnostic and Treatment Center
Altoona, PA
Admissions Director
The Village at Morrisons Cove
Martinsburg, PA
Social Service Director/Hospice Coordinator
Nason Hospital
Roaring Spring, PA
Community Involvement
- Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Annual Golf Outing: Raise awareness of the SMA as well as money for the families.
- Take Back the Night: Annual Educational Week for the campus and community to raise awareness of domestic violence
- Annual Human Service Seminar for the community: the Social Work Department plans a community education event for the human service workers in the surrounding area.
- IM4Q Advisory Board
- Wellness Committee: Desepio Center for Rural Heath and Wellness: 2007-present
Memberships
- CSWE, Council on Social Work Education
- BPD, Baccalaureate Program Directors
- NASW, National Association of Social Workers
Presentations
- “Using Technology in Grant Writing and Needs Assessment,” Co presenter with Dr. Mark Lynch, Dr. Lenning Zhang, Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program Meeting San Francisco, CA: October 2007
- “A social Policy Scavenger Hunt: An Exercise to develop Resource Knowledge for Policy Analysis” Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program Meeting, Chicago, IL, February, 2006.
- “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Family”, Co presented with Billie Fletcher Haines, MSW, LCSW, NASW, PA, Harrisburg, PA May 2004