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n today's podcast, Dr. Aileen interviews Professor Mildred Joyner. Mildred C. Joyner, MSW, LCSW, BCD serves as Director at DNB Financial Corporation since 2004. She has been the President of MCJ Consultants since January 2011 and is an Emeritus Professor of Social Work from West Chester University of Pennsylvania where she started her teaching career in 1979. While at West Chester University as a Professor of Social Work, she was elected in 1984 as the Director/Chairperson of the Undergraduate Social Work Department and served in that position until 2011. In 2010, Ms. Joyner chaired the fundraising committee for the Frederick Douglass sculpture which is permanently located on the campus of West Chester University. Ms. Joyner was elected in 2015 as Vice-President of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). She also serves on the boards of the Chester County Food Bank, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute SoulMates advisory board in Boston, MA. She previously served on the boards of the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy in Washington, DC, the International Association of Schools of Social Work, the ANSWER Coalition, Chester County Children, Youth, and Families, the Chester County Women's Commission, and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) in Alexandria, VA as the President and Board Chair from July 2010 to June 2013. Ms. Joyner is a Chair Emeritus of Living Beyond Breast Cancer in Narberth, PA where she previously served as the Board Chair and as the Chair of Board Governance. In addition, Ms. Joyner also served as the Vice-President of CSWE, and is a past President of the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, a national organization located in Alexandria, VA. Ms. Joyner earned her BSW in 1971 from Central State University in Ohio and a MSW in 1974 from Howard University in Washington, DC Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=23418886&privcapId=396097

In today's episode, Dr. Aileen interviews Erica Sokol ,founder of the nonprofit organization, StudentsCare about her inspiring story and self-care strategies. In 2010, Erica Sokol was a student at the University of Florida and was looking for a volunteer experience to prepare her for a career in healthcare. She started volunteering at UF Health Shands Hospital in the pediatric unit, but found her volunteer time at the hospital was being spent doing clerical tasks and not directly helping to meet the needs of patients, especially those children who she saw alone in the hospital week after week. Erica saw a need- children and families in need of support- and came up with a solution. She recruited her classmates and started a unique buddy program, in which herself and a handful of other students, were paired with children in the pediatric oncology unit and visited each week, sometimes even several times a week. After participating in and directing this program at Shands for 2+ years, and seeing its impact, she determined that as a student-run program it could be scaled to reach many more patients and families. In September 2013, Erica established StudentsCare, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to help bring this program to hospitals and college campuses across the country. Erica spent the next two years developing StudentsCare and the hospital buddy program model that exists today, simultaneously earning her Masters degree in Nonprofit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania. During this time, Erica was contacted by hundreds of college students across the country who were hoping to bring StudentsCare to their campus. By early 2016, Erica had launched 4 student chapters and Hospital Buddy Programs at Michigan State University and Sparrow Hospital; St. Louis University and Ronald McDonald House of St. Louis; University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; and one in her hometown of Miami at University of Miami and Holtz Children’s Hospital. In January 2017, StudentsCare received their first grant from the very prestigious William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust, allowing StudentsCare to continue to grow. The grant proposal aimed for 6 new programs to be in operation by the end of 2017. The grant also allowed StudentsCare to hire its first full-time staff. Erica would now be able to focus her time and effort full-time on growing StudentsCare as CEO of the organization. Tami Robinson, a long-time volunteer for StudentsCare and former school teacher, would become StudentsCare’s first Program Manager to ensure the continued success of all buddy hospital programs. Good things have continued to come StudentsCare’s way. In April 2017, StudentsCare was featured on Live Life Forward on Lifetime TV. And in July, StudentsCare was featured on People.com. For more information about Erica and Students Care please visit http://www.students-care.org/

In today's podcast, Dr. Aileen interviews Dr. Pamela Szczygiel, a licensed clinical social worker and Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Szczygiel's expertise and research interests include mental health, trauma and relationally-informed social work practice, mindfulness, integrative mental health treatment and East-West approaches to mental health.

In today's podcast, Dr. Aileen McCabe-Maucher interviews Dr. Mary McCluskey. Dr. Mary McCluskey earned her MSW from Columbia School of Social Work and her doctoral degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania School of Policy and Practice. She has been practicing clinical social work for over a decade and has a certification in psychodynamic psychotherapy from The American Institute of Psychoanalysis. She has taught social work at the University of Pennsylvania, Fordham University, and Simmons College. She has also taught psychodynamic therapy at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Currently, she teaches social work at New York University. Dr. McCluskey recently published a research article, "The Pregnant Therapist: A Qualitative Examination of the Client Experience" in Clinical Social Work Journal. To view this article go to: http://rdcu.be/nlnJ. For more, information about Dr. McCluskey, please visit her website: http://www.marymccluskeydsw.com