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
Teaching & Research
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
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
Professional Activity
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