Lecturer

Eveline Chang

Lecturer

Eveline Chang’s teaching role in Berkeley Social Welfare was expanded to allow her to become the School’s first full-time lecturer. In addition to teaching several social welfare courses, Chang leads an independent study to assist students in designing and implementing a series of social justice inclusion events throughout the academic year.

Chang has spent more than 25 years developing and managing integrative, community-based programs rooted in social justice, activism, multicultural leadership development, popular education, self-determination and community wellness.

She...

Laura Frame

Lecturer

Community Lecturer Laura Frame, PhD, LCSW is Mental Health Team Leader, Research and Evaluation at Early Intervention Services, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. In both her clinical practice and research, she specializes in infant/early childhood mental health and the effectiveness of early intervention approaches for families experiencing trauma and adversity. Her writing includes clinical and policy-level research on trauma, toxic stress and mental health; child maltreatment; parenting; family poverty; peer support interventions; and public systems of welfare and child welfare....

Barbara Ivins

Lecturer

Barbara Ivins, PhD, is Director of Early Intervention Services (EIS) at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. The multidisciplinary early intervention and early childhood mental health programs at EIS serve children with medical, developmental and socio-emotional risks and challenges, including trauma. In addition to direct services and program development, Barbara has provided training, supervision, and consultation within the Bay Area early childhood mental health community and to all systems of care that serve young children for more than 35 years. She is a founding member of the...

Patti Park

Lecturer

Lecturer Patti Park is a licensed clinical social worker with a Master's in Social Welfare and a Doctorate in Psychology. She has extensive experience in executive and senior leadership positions in community mental health organizations throughout Los Angeles County, and has been providing direct clinical services since 2001.

Dr. Park's areas of interest include mental health, organizational leadership, trauma-informed and culturally responsive care. Her experience includes clinical practice, research, teaching, program evaluation and development, grant writing, and...

Wendy Wiegmann

Lecturer

WENDY WIEGMANN, MSW, PHD, is project director of the California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP).

Dr. Wiegmann's many years of experience includes the last nine years with CCWIP and other research projects, analyzing linked and unlinked administrative data to examine a number of different child welfare phenomena. In prior years with CCWIP, she has taken on a number of leadership roles — planning and managing research projects; collaborating with partnered research agencies;...