by Kerry Doyle, Melissa Singh, and Lisa Wobbe-Veit
COVID-19 disrupted financial, socio-emotional, and educational systems on a global scale. Educators strategized how to teach competencies while instilling joy and adhering to the program’s mission. This virtual discovery session will detail leveraging technology to reimagine learning and expect the unanticipated joy from innovative learning experiences.
Kerry Doyle, DSW, LICSW is an Associate Professor of Social Work Practicum Education at the University of California Suzanne-Dworak Peck school of social work where she has taught MSW students since 2011. Her professional interests include trauma sensitive mindfulness, secondary traumatic stress, and trauma treatment & outcomes. Her doctoral research focused on crisis response and recovery after mass targeted gun violence in schools.
Melissa Singh, EdD, LCSW, MS-HSA is an Associate Professor of Social Work Practicum Education at the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, where she teaches in the MSW and DSW programs. In 2016, a program that she co-led won the Award for Innovative Teaching in Social Work Education from SAGE/CSWE for Educating Social Work Students for Macro Practice, and in 2017, Dr. Singh was awarded the Hutto Patterson Distinguished Faculty Award for excellence in teaching; service to the university, the school, and the community; and accessibility to students. Currently, she is Co-Investigator on a $3.25M HRSA grant to assist educationally and economically disadvantaged and historically underrepresented students.
Lisa Wobbe-Veit is an Associate Professor of Social Work Practicum Education at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, managing Master’s candidates as the South Regional Field Director. Wobbe-Veit’s more than two decades of experience covers a wide range of practice environments with a focus on building wellness and resiliency with trauma exposed youth and their families. As a Parkland resident, she serves as the Broward County Public Schools recovery consultant following the tragic mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.