Faculty and Staff
Clay Graybeal
Interim Director of the School of Social Work; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Director of Integrated Health Sciences
Hersey Hall 209
Phone: 207-221-4509
Fax: 207-221-4716
Email: cgraybeal@une.edu
Expertise
Evidence-based practice; the alliance between provider and patient/client; interprofessional education; transformative practice; the creative arts in social work.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Evidence based practice; the arts in social work; alliance measures in health and mental health
Wanda L. Anderson
Assistant Clinical Professor
UM Presque Isle
Phone: 207-468-8979
Email: wanderson4@une.edu
Expertise
Working with Children and Families on Sexual Abuse and Special Needs of Children, Case Management Services, Working with Adult Survivors, Poverty Issues and Strength Based Supervision
Nancy Irene Ayer
Clinical Associate Professor
Hersey Hall 405
Phone: 207-221-4502
Fax: 207-221-4719
Email: nayer@une.edu
Judith Emily Boudman
Instructor
Hersey Hall
Phone: 207-455-8096
Email: jboudman@une.edu
Expertise
Adult mental health, hospice, death & dying, domestic violence, Native American health, creative arts in therapy, clinical supervision, microenterprise loan programs.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Indian child welfare, substance abuse prevention in tribal communities, Native American youth leadership, transitional housing for battered women, foster grandparent volunteers,
hospice.
Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin
Associate Professor, Director of MSW online education, Codirector for the Social Work Center for Research and Evaluation
Hersey Hall 424
Phone: 207-221-4511
Fax: 207-221-9879
Email: tmclaughlin@une.edu
Expertise
Cost effectiveness of social service delivery systems; mental health and social welfare policy delivery systems and policies; community organizing; non-profit organizational management and sustainable infrastructure; social service research infrastructure;
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Youth and adult homelessness; social welfare program best practice and program implications; cost effectivess analysis of social service systems; Mental health policy and practice analysis; non-proft fund raising.
Amy Coha
Clinical Associate Professor
Hersey Hall 421
Phone: 4504
Fax: 221-4719
Email: acoha@une.edu
Expertise
Field education, domestic violence, sexual assault,criminal justice, adult mental health.
Marcia B. Cohen
Professor
Hersey Hall 404
Phone: 207-221-4505
Email: mcohen@une.edu
Expertise
Integrated social work practice; organizational change; social work with groups; homelessness, poverty and mental health issues.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Integrated multi-level social work practice; organizational practice; social work education; social action group work; gender and group work; mental health; practice with homeless and other very poor people.
Kerry Dunn
Assistant Professor
Hersey Hall 412
Phone: 207-221-4364
Email: kdunn5@une.edu
Expertise
Criminal and juvenile legal systems, critical policy analysis, public ethnography, participatory action research, and mindful politics.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Ideologies of human behavior in capital sentencing decisions, social boundaries in university-prison partnerships, and definitions of evidence based policy in the US and UK.
Betsey Gray
Director of Field Education
Hersey Hall 423
Phone: 207-221-4508
Fax: 207-221-4719
Email: Egray@une.edu
Expertise
Elders and their caregivers; field education.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Elders and their caregivers; field education.
Shelley Cohen Konrad
Associate Professor
Hersey Hall 418
Phone: 207-221-4501
Email: scohenkonrad@une.edu
Expertise
Seriously ill and dying children; parents of children with chronic medical conditions and disabilities; barriers to compassionate health care; high conflict divorce.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Parent perspectives on quality of health care provision; impact of working with suffering in the workplace; collaboration between interdisciplinary professionals; posttraumatic growth after tragedy.
Mariann Mankowski
Assistant Professor
Hersey Hall 413
Phone: 207-221-4597
Email: mmankowski@une.edu
Expertise
Clinical social work theory and social work clinical practice with Veterans, young adults, professional and amateur athletes as they prepared for various championships including the Olypmics, and those struggling with disordered eating and mood disturbances. Currently completing Ph.D at Smith College School for Social Work.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Post deployment experience of military service members, aging and elder issues, feminist scholarship, and mindfulness based social work practice.
Vernon L. Moore
Associate Professor
Hersey Hall 407
Phone: 207-221-4223
Email: vmoore@une.edu
Expertise
Not-for-profit organizational development and leadership; integrated health & human service systems' development & evaluation; collaborative models of health & human service delivery.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Theory and practice in integrated health and human service initiatives.
David Prichard
Professor
Hersey Hall
Phone: 4512
Email: dprichard@une.edu
Expertise
Secondary trauma; vicarious trauma; addictions, juvenile corrections
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Current research interests focus on secondary and vicarious trauma of DHHS child case workers.
Ellen Rondina
Clinical Assistant Professor
Off-Campus
Hersey Hall
Phone: 207-229-8797
Email: erondina@une.edu
Expertise
Working with individuals with developmental disabilities and brain injuries and their families; Strength-based parenting, especially the importance of fathers; Bullying and Cyberbullying; EFT; Spirituality and Wellness; Group facilitation; Field education
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Cyberbullying, Fathering, Spirituality and Wellness, Inclusion
Stephen M. Rose
Professor of Social Work
Hersey Hall 428
Phone: 207-221-4431
Fax: 207-221-4719
Email: srose@une.edu
Expertise
Social determinants of health; impact of health disparities on chronic illnesses; poverty and health; social work in health and mental health; empowerment-based practices.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Links between poverty in childhood and adult chronic illness and mental illness; inequality in income and health/morbidity/mortality; relativity of health risk behaviors and chronic illness; adverse childhood experiences impact on adult chronic disease.
Nancy Shore
Assistant Professor
Hersey Hall
Phone: 207-221-4507
Email: nshore@une.edu
Expertise
Ethics; community practice; social
service research infrastructure
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Community-based participatory research and ethical considerations; developing community-university partnerships; Institutional Review Board processes; program evaluation; social work education
Amy N. Storch
Online Associate Lecturer
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-221-4396
Email: astorch@une.edu
Expertise
Crisis intervention, substance abuse, mental health, and working with individuals with disabilities, specifically, the Hard of Hearing and Deaf population.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Analyzing Treatment Effectiveness in Deaf Clients Who Use a Signing versus Nonsigning Therapist
Mary White
Clinical Assistant Professor
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-227-8992
Email: mwhite5@une.edu
Expertise
Working with people with serious and persistent mental illness, women's issues, trauma and survivor issues, case management, supervision, veteran's issues and poverty. I am particulary interested in research regarding generational poverty and its impact upon family systems.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Generational poverty and its impact upon family systems.
Martha Kirkendall Wilson
Associate Provost for Online Worldwide Learning; Professor, School of Social Work
Hersey Hall 426
Phone: 207-221-4514
Email: mwilson13@une.edu
Expertise
Advanced social work practice; social work practice models; non-offending parents of sexually abused children; women in corrections; advanced field education models; reflexive practice;
collaborative partnerships.
Research Interests/ Scholarship
Ego development in non-offending mothers of sexually abused children; role transitions of left-behind siblings after the death of another sibling; reducing recidivism of incarcerated women; collaborative partnerships around energy and aging; participatory and competency based social work practice models;
screening for sexual predators in social service agencies.
Leslie Yaffa
Online Lecturer, Retention Coordinator
Off-Campus
Phone: 207-221-4486
Fax: 207-221-4719
Email: lyaffa@une.edu
Expertise
Child and adolescent development, human services practice, individuals and families, diversity, working/understanding children, adolescents and families, mental health, field placement, research and practice, international social work/human services, applied research, social assessment and therapy, community development and advocacy.
Bob Chance
Staff Assistant
Hersey Hall 427
Phone: 207-221-4513
Email: rchance@une.edu
Danielle Lawrence
Staff Secretary
Hersey Hall 427
Phone: 207-221-4542
Fax: 207-221-4719
Email: dlawrence3@une.edu
Vicki Walker
Administrative Assistant, School of Social Work
Hersey Hall 427
Phone: 207-221-4503
Fax: 207-221-4719
Email: vwalker@une.edu
