Areas of Expertise:
- Clinical social work practice;
- Clinical social work supervision
- Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training
Dissertation:
- Changes in Attitudes and Beliefs after Student SBIRT Training
Education:
- Doctorate of Health Sciences, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN; Master of Social Work
- University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Bachelor of Social Work
- Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Research areas of Interest:
- Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training
- Mental health and first responder response
- SBIRT
Selected Professional Experience:
- MSW Program Director, Northcentral University
- MSW Program Director, Indiana State University
- Member, Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
- Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE) Committee, NASW Indiana
- Board Member, Vigo County Board of Health
Select Publications:
- Todd, J., Quiring, S., & Halbert, M. (2022). Effects on participant knowledge, situational anxiety, and social distance attitudes following CIT Training. Community Mental Health Journal.
- Todd, J., Agley, J., Hutchins, M., Nesser, W., Ferng, S., & Parker, E. (2022). Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment Training for undergraduate nursing students: A Quasi-experimental comparison of distance and face-to-face learning. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1-6.
- Halbert, M., Todd, J., & Quiring, S. (2020). CIT Indiana Coordinator Manual: Partnership for safer and healthier communities. NAMI Indiana.
- Simper, T, Agley, J., DeSalle, M., Todd, J. & Dutta, T. (2020). Influence of Self-coding on therapeutic empathy within an introductory Motivational Interviewing (MI) training: A randomized controlled trial. BMC Medical Education, 20, 43.