Director
Zoe Bree Wood, MSW
216.368.2689
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, Zoe 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. Zoe'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 Faculty Advisors
Ms. Gail is a Field Faculty Advisor with a primary focus on community and social
development. She has a BA from Kenyon College, a MSSA from the Mandel School of Applied Social
Science, and is a Licensed Independent Social Worker in the State of Ohio. Her professional
experience includes serving as the Community Education/Relations Specialist for Pathways, the
Executive Director of Euclid Community Concerns, and 10 years as the Ward 1 Councilwoman for the
City of Euclid. She has also been actively involved in many community task forces, committees, and
planning efforts. In addition to her position at MSASS, Ms. Gail currently serves as the President
of Euclid City Council.
Kathi Gant,
MSSA, LISW-S
216.368.3024
Ms. Gant is a part time Field Faculty Advisor who graduated from the Intensive
Weekend Program at MSASS in 1990. She is an LISW-S 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.
Marjory Klein,
MSSA, LISW-S
216.368.0709
Ms. Klein has been a Field Faculty Advisor 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-S 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 and the Hartford Foundation grant.
Soad Mansour,
ACSW, LISW-S
216.368.0711
Mrs. Mansour Is a Field Faculty Advisor 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-S) 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 and International consultant. 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.
Nancy Neuer,
ACSW, LISW-S
216.368.3997
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 Faculty
Advisor 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 Western Reserve University, MetroHealth 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.
Lori Longs Painter, ACSW, LISW-S
216.368.0047
Ms. Painter is a Field Faculty Advisor for the Intensive Weekend program and
adjunct faculty. She is an MSASS alumna with over twenty years experience in private foster
care and adoption agencies. She served in clinical and administrative capacities in
management, supervision and direct service. She has worked on child welfare and child advocacy
issues and developed staff trainings in Ohio and Kentucky. She has been a field instructor for
University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University Schools of Social Work. Her work in
program and organizational community development emphasizes an interdisciplinary
approach.
She is developing stomping ground, restorative learning and leisure
opportunities for adult development. It is designed to offer dynamic methods in maintaining a
balance between interests, abilities and challenges as critical to the individual's civic
participation in her greater community.
Scott Wilkes, ACSW, LISW-S
216.368.2240
Mr. Wilkes joined the Field Education Department in the fall of 2007 as a part
time Field Faculty Advisor. He has more than 15 years of experience working in the area of child
welfare. Currently an LISW, he received his BSW from the City University of New York, Lehman
College and his MSW from Columbia University. He is also a graduate of the CWRU, School of Law.
Currently, he is a PhD candidate at MSASS. His area of expertise is child welfare, children's
mental health, and program development. Prior to coming to MSASS he worked as Vice President of
Corporate Development with a national foster care agency and was the Director of a managed care
pilot and an Outpatient Mental Health Clinic with Beech Brook. Scott currently teaches the Field
Seminar and has taught , Diversity Discrimination and Oppression, Social Work Research and Social
Work Ethics.
Field Staff
Administrative Assistant
Henrietta Jones
216.368.2292
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", and
the MSASSy Award in 2007.
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