Faculty

Jamie Chang shares personal and professional path to exploring systemic causes of homelessness

November 8, 2023
Jason Pohl

"Jamie Chang has studied homelessness for two decades. She’s spent more time interviewing people in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district and examining the role of drugs, alcohol and government policies on city streets than almost any other scholar. Her personal experience with unhoused people dates back to her childhood.

Yet until recently, Chang, a new faculty member this fall at UC Berkeley, didn’t actively promote her research. For years, she worried she’d ruffle feathers in a hyper-politicized field rife with misinformation, short-sighted solutions and hot takes....

https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/11/02/for-new-berkeley-professor-solving-homeless…

Susan Stone joins American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Board

January 5, 2023

Susan Stone, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Catherine Mary and Eileen Clare Hutto Professor of Social Services in Public Education has joined the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare Advisory Board for 2023.

The Academy is an honorific society of distinguished scholars and practitioners dedicated to achieving excellence in the field of social work and social welfare through high-impact work that advances social good. Dr....

Dr. Jamie Chang Joins Faculty

August 29, 2023

Dr. Jamie Chang has joined the School of Social Welfare faculty and community this summer as Associate Professor.

Dr. Chang’s research involves investigating the structural determinants that impact the health of unhoused people, focusing on the role of social policies (e.g. encampment sweeps) on unhoused people’s health outcomes. Recently, she has led mixed-methods studies which examine the soaring numbers of people dying while unhoused in Santa Clara County. Her lab developed the ...

Joyce Dorado

Associate Dean for Research-Practice Partnerships

Dr. Joyce Dorado is a Teaching Professor and Associate Dean for Research-Practice Partnerships in the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and the Co-Founder and Director of Healthy Environments and Response to Trauma in Schools (HEARTS). Dr. Dorado is a nationally recognized expert in partnering with schools and other youth-serving systems to create trauma-informed, equitable, and healing organizations. She has served as an appointed member of the California State Supreme Court Justice’s statewide steering committee for the Keeping Kids in School and Out of Courts...

Adrian Aguilera

Associate Professor
Associate Professor Adrian Aguilera’s research leverages digital & mobile technologies along with innovative methods such as machine learning to improve health & mental healthcare of low-income & ethnic minority populations, with a focus on Latinx & Spanish-speaking populations.

NIH funds collaboration to improve mental health treatment for Latinos

October 3, 2022
UCI News

Read about how Dr. Adrian Aguilera's work is featured in ongoing NIH funding developments:

"Irvine, Calif., Oct. 3, 2022 – The National Institutes of Health is awarding nearly $4.7 million over five years to support research teams from University of California campuses in Irvine, Berkeley and San Francisco who are collaborating on a new project that will combine peer support with the use of a digital platform to better serve the mental health needs of Latino patients with limited English proficiency."

https://news.uci.edu/2022/10/03/nih-funds-collaboration-to-improve-mental-health…

Adrian Aguilera on therapy for people who can’t go to therapy

September 27, 2022
Adrian Aguilera

"The way Americans receive mental health care has never changed as quickly as it has since the spring of 2020. When the Covid pandemic forced so many of us into our homes and onto Zoom, psychiatrists, psychotherapists and social workers followed. What started as a short-term fix is now becoming permanent. Today, nearly 40 percent of mental health and substance use outpatient treatment visits at hospitals and clinics are offered remotely,...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/opinion/therapy-technology-mental-health.html

Angela Perone appointed to GSA's Public Policy Advisory Panel

September 28, 2022

Assistant Professor Angela Perone was appointed to the Public Policy Advisory Panel of the Gerontological Society of America, the oldest and largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging. From the GSA: "The Public Policy Advisory Panel provides specialized expertise, advice, key information, and support in the area of public policy and performs other society-wide tasks to serve the mission of the GSA, its strategic plan, and...