Director
Zoë Breen Wood
MSW
216.368.2689
zbw@case.edu
Ms. Wood is a social worker who brings over twenty-five years of direct practice,
management and professional development experience to her work. Currently the Director of the
Office of Field Education and an Instructor at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case
Western Reserve University, Zoë also consults nationally with public and private sector human
service agencies. Over the years she has specialized in developing competency based training
systems, policy analysis, and organizational development and change management. Recent
efforts have focused on practice in adoption, with neglectful families, strengthening community
practice concepts and incorporating community based practice strategies into graduate social work
education programs. Zoë's teaching focuses on social policy issues and advocacy, community
based child welfare practice, and management and leadership development. She is pursuing her
doctoral studies with a special interest in attachment development with children adopted at an
older age.
Field Advisor/Adjunct Instructors
Patricia J. Britt MSW, LISW
216.368.6016
pjb12@case.edu
Ms. Britt is a Field Education Advisor/Adjunct Instructor who has been with the
Field Education Department since 1990.A 1983 graduate of Howard University, Ms. Britt teaches the
Field Education Seminar course. Her area of expertise is adult mental health, but now also
includes Community Development since her election to Cleveland City Council in 1995. Ms.
Britt serves on the Mental Health and Community Development Concentration Committees, as well as
serving on the Research Sequence Committee
Kathi Gant MSSA, LISW
216.368.3024
kxo@case.edu
Ms. Gant is a part time Field Education Advisor/Adjunct Instructor who graduated
from the Intensive Week-end Program at MSASS in 1990. She is an LISW with over 25 years of
experience in the mental health field. She has held multiple positions in the social work and
hospital healthcare field including: clinician working with adults and adolescents and their
families, marketing and management, program and business development, and education. She has
worked in both inpatient and outpatient psychiatric settings as well as oncology and pulmonary
departments of the Cleveland Clinic Health System. Previously she taught mental health crisis
intervention for EMS and paramedic students. Kathi has taught Human Development Across the
Lifespan at MSASS for the last 14 years. She also teaches a section of the Field Education
Seminar. She has served on the Committee on Students. In addition to her
responsibilities at MSASS, Ms. Gant is a practicing clinician in private practice on the west side
of Cleveland.
Lenore Ivy MSW, LISW
216.368.2240
lei@case.edu
Ms. Ivy is a part time Field Education Advisor/Adjunct Instructor whose primary
responsibilities are with students doing their field education in public and private schools in
Cuyahoga County. She has served as a member of the MSASS Field Forum Steering
Committee. She is a graduate of the School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh.
She is a certificated school social worker with the Ohio Department of Education with over 25 years
experience as a school social worker with the Cleveland Municipal School District. She has
served as Coordinator of Supportive Services, Division of Early Childhood Education; Lead social
worker and Field Education Liaison, Social Services Department with the Cleveland schools.
Mrs. Ivy has experience in health and mental health practice with the Veterans Administration
Hospitals at Wade Park and Brecksville. She has served as practitioner and administrator with a
non- profit agency, Community Information Service, Welfare Federation of Cleveland (now Center for
Community Solutions). She was selected as Ohio School Social Worker of the Year 2003, by the
Ohio School Social Work Association.
Marjory Klein MSSA, LISW
216.368.0709
mxk28@case.edu
Ms. Klein has been a Field Education Advisor/Adjunct Instructor at MSASS since
1996. Prior to that time she chaired the MSASS Field Forum Steering Committee and served on a task
force to evaluate field education. She is an MSASS alumna and a graduate of the Gestalt
Institute of Cleveland. She is an LISW with over 20 years of experience in mental health
settings as a clinician and as an administrator. She has served as Clinical Consultant to the
Cleveland Rape Crisis Center for 10 years and has provided clinical supervision to mental health
professionals in the community. She currently teaches a section of the Field Education
Seminar and serves on the Aging Concentration and the Field Education Sequence Committees. She
assumes additional field responsibilities for the Dual Diagnosis Program.
Nancy Neuer ACSW, LISW
216.368.3997
nxn14@case.edu
Ms. Neuer has an undergraduate degree in Sociology-Social Work from Elmira College
in Elmira, NY and an MSSA from MSASS. She is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers
and is a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the State of Ohio. She has been a Field
Education Advisor/Adjunct Instructor at MSASS since June, l997 and teaches a section of the Field
Education Seminar each fall. In addition, she is a member of the Health Concentration and Field
Education and Methods Sequences.
Prior professional experience includes employment at The Mental Development Center at CASE,
Metro Health Medical Center, University Hospitals of Cleveland Division of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, and The Achievement Centers for Children. She has a private practice in the Cleveland
area.
Areas of interest include developmental disabilities, attachment disorders and issues
related to loss and complicated mourning.
Soad Mansour
ACSW, LISW
216.368.0711
sxm18@case.edu
Mrs. Mansour is a Field Education Advisor/Adjunct Instructor at MSASS who, since
1996, has worked with Macro and International students. In 1999, she was appointed Director of the
Office of International Affairs at MSASS. She received her BSW from Cairo School of Social Work,
Egypt and is an MSASS alumna. She is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) in the State of
Ohio and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW). She has taught courses in
Social Policy and in Management at MSASS and currently teaches the Field Seminar.
She has over forty years of active contribution to the Social Work profession in Cleveland
and abroad. Her work experience includes 11 years as a Field Instructor, School of Social Work, in
Cairo, Egypt. She was also the Assistant Director of Cleveland Impact Cities Program and Director
of Cleveland Youth Employment Program. In 1976 she founded Towards Employment Inc, a non-profit
social service organization dedicated to assist the economically disadvantaged to make the
transition to employment and self-sufficiency. She served as the Executive Director from 1976-1996.
Ms. Mansour also works as a management consultant and International. She serves on several
Boards and task forces, including the Growth Association Workforce Initiative; Cleveland
International Council; the Community Advisory Board of Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau and
North East Advisory Board of International Partners in Mission (IPM).
She is a recipient of several awards including: the 1991 Social Worker of the Year from the
NASW, Ohio Chapter; 1998 Certificate of Achievement of Outstanding Work with International
Students, NASW; Excellence Award of Mentorship Program, Weatherhead School of Management, CASE. The
"Soad Mansour Endowment Fund" was established by Towards Employment in recognition of her 20 years
of leadership.
Andrea Goodloe Porter ACSW, LISW
216.368.0047
agp8@case.edu
Ms. Porter is a part time Field Education Advisor/Adjunct Instructor for the
Intensive Weekend. She is an MSASS alumna, a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) and a
member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW). She has over 30 years experience in
public child welfare and child protection where she has served in several capacities, i.e.,
administration, management, supervision, staff training, organizational development and direct
service. Other areas of expertise include crisis intervention, family counseling, program
development and evaluation, and child advocacy. She has taught social work courses on the
undergraduate level atCleveland State and the University of Akron. She has served as Campus
Coordinator at the University of Akron in the University Partnership Program, to train
undergraduate social work students with a career interest in public child welfare. She is a
certified trainer for the Ohio Child Welfare Training Program and a certified Tier I and Tier II
Ohio Adoption Assessor.
Margaret Shenefelt MSW, ACSW, LSW
814.833.9023
mshen14@adelphia.net
Ms. Shenefelt has been a contract Field Education Advisor at MSASS since 1988. Ms.
Shenefelt is a licensed social worker in Pennsylvania and has been a NAMI member for the past 20
years .
She was a curriculum writer and trainer for mental health case management for Western
Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh. She has an extensive case management background and
has 28 years clinical, supervisory, administrative, and board experience in Erie County's public
mental health system. She also has experience in Pennsylvania's public child welfare system.
She provided leadership for the start up of both the Intensive Case Management and Resource
Coordination services in Erie County, and she and her staff were key players in the Erie-Warren
Community Hospital Integration Project in the early 1990's.
She is currently an independent social work supervision & administration consultant,
writer and trainer for Co-Occurring Disorders: MISA in Pennsylvania , Alabama & Ohio ,
Supervision in Pennsylvania and Ohio , and for Child Welfare in NE Ohio . She is a regular seminar
presenter for the MSASS Continuing Education department.
Clara Simmons
DCSW, LISW
216.360.0878
claras@ameritech.net
Mrs. Simmons is the Field Advisor/Adjunct Instructor for the Stokes Fellows whose
focus is Community Development in the Intensive Program. She has over 40 years of social work
experience as a practitioner and administrator in health, mental health and family services
settings, and as a social work educator on the undergraduate and graduate levels at Smith College,
Cleveland State University and Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. An active volunteer,
her current activities include: Chair, Curriculum Committee Defiance College Board of Trustees;
Co-Chair, Midwest Coalition, NASW; Member, Georgetown University National Advisory Committee on
Cultural Competence; Member, National Committee of Racial and Ethnic Diversity, NASW; Member,
Program, Planning and Budget Committee, Ohio NASW; Member, Interfaith Hospitality Network Board of
Trustees; and Member, United Way Senior Success Investment Committee.
Michael Wehrer
MSW, LSW
814.451.7713
mrw3@case.edu
Mr. Wehrer is a Field Education Advisor/Adjunct Instructor and Field Instructor in
the Erie, PA area. A 1987 graduate of Marywood College, Mr. Wehrer teaches the Field Seminar
and the Theories of Groups, Organizations, and Communities courses. He has authored
curriculum and is a trainer for the Pennsylvania Child Welfare Competency Based Training program.
Previously he had been a supervisor and administrative officer at Family Services of Northwestern
PA, and has taught at Gannon University in Erie PA. He also participates on the MSASS
Children Youth and Family Concentration Committee, the Theory Sequence committee and the Field
Forum Steering Committee.
Field Staff
Administrative Assistant
Henrietta Jones
216.368.2292
hpj@case.edu
Ms. Jones has been a staff member of MSASS since 1979 and with the Field Education
Department since 1990. She is a 1987 graduate of Programming Systems Institute. She has
attended Dyke College and Cuyahoga Community College. Ms. Jones assisted in school
reaccreditations in 1985 and 1993. She completed two surveys in 1988 for Dr. Sharon Milligan;
one was for the Northeast Ohio Arthritis Center, Lupus Study and the other was for Simba/Malaika
Network. She was a member of the Staff Advisory Council Committee at CASE from 1997 to 1999,
and has participated on the Work Environment Committee at MSASS since 1995. She received the
2001 Bea Lenora Benson Staff Award for "Recognizing Excellence and Professionalism in 2001."<
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