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Ms. Gilson serves as the Project Coordinator for the Child Welfare Training Program (Title IV-E) for U.C. Berkeley, School of Social Welfare. She joined the faculty in 1995 after twenty-five years as a practitioner, supervisor, and administrator of programs within the Mental Health and Social Services, Public Child Welfare areas. In addition to her administrative duties as coordinator, she also functions as a faculty field work consultant/lecturer. Currently she teaches the integrative seminar for students preparing for careers in public child welfare. Ms. Gilson is also a lecturer with the College of Social Work at San Jose State University where she teaches graduate courses in the Methods sequence. She has also taught courses in early childhood education and other undergraduate social work courses at various campuses in northern California. An active member of NASW, she also is a member of CSWE and an American Orthopsychiatric Association Fellow. Her particular areas of interest are in transcultural practice, child development/child welfare services, mental health services for children and forensic human services.

Title IV-E Child Welfare Director Shaaron Gilson just completed a two and a half year project with Yolo County Child Welfare Services measuring the value of LCSW supervision on retaining Masters level social work staff. She coordinated the fifth annual Pre-employment Workshop for the IV-E students in January and presented a workshop on interviewing to SFSU students. Shaaron continues to work with Field Director Bart Grossman and Barry Goldman-Hall evaluating the use of technology as a means of field instructor development for group work supervision.