Linda Belt, MSW '84, was appointed executive director of the Newport Community Counseling Center in Newport Beach, Calif.
Wendy Flenoury, MSW '01, is coordinator for the VA Supportive Housing Program for Homeless Veterans at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She also facilitates an anger management group for adolescents at the Guidance Center in Los Angeles.
Idabelle Fosse, MSW '02, works at Safe Passages in the areas of policy development, communication and advocacy, strategy implementation and evaluation, resource development, and technical assistance. The organization provides leadership in the creation of a system of care for children 0-5 who have been exposed to community and domestic violence and their families in Alameda County. She also works with partner agencies on the development, coordination, implementation and analysis of the Oakland Early Childhood Initiative. In addition, she serves on the Mental Health Services Act Planning Panel to strategize what to do with Alameda County's Prevention and Early Intervention funding for mental health services.
Robert Hernandez, MSW '07, is a member of the Community Engagement Advisory Committee to the Ad-Hoc Committee on Gang Violence and Youth Development that developed a gang intervention model that the city of Los Angeles has officially adopted. The model has received regional, statewide and national attention for clearly and holistically defining the emerging field of community-based gang intervention.
Julianne Hines, MSW '04, serves as district director for Assemblymember Anthony Portantino, where she manages all field operations and personnel.
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Andrea Lebeouf, MSW '07, is a psychiatric social worker at Kedren Community Mental Health Center in Los Angeles, where she works with children 0-15 years old. She also serves as financial chair for NASW-CA Region I.
Alex Morales, MSW '74, has been named 2008 Social Worker of the Year by the Southern California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. He is president and chief executive officer of Children's Bureau, a non-profit organization that offers an array of child abuse prevention and treatment services aimed at strengthening families and communities throughout Southern California. Morales successfully led a $22-million campaign to build Magnolia Place in South Los Angeles, a neighborhood-based family support model with goals of safe and nurturing parents, kindergarten readiness, good health and economic stability.
Lisa Stratford, MSW '04, is a deputy probation officer at the Dorothy F. Kirby Center in Commerce, Calif., where she works with mentally challenged delinquents.
Lisa Tran, MPA/MSW '03, is a realtor with Keller Williams Realty in Studio City, Calif.
Dnika Travis, PhD ‘06, is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. She recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Addiction Research Institute at the school's Center for Social Work Research. Her research interests include employee voice and engagement; leadership and organizational effectiveness; and diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She teaches in the Community and Administrative Leadership concentration. Travis is also a faculty fellow with the university's Center for Women's & Gender Studies Faculty Development Program.
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