Tracy McDade is an associate teaching professor with extensive experience in the public and private sectors, primarily with nonprofit child welfare organizations. She supports undergraduate and graduate social work students in child welfare internships, particularly in Flagler, Putnam, St. Johns and Volusia counties.
Shalay Jackson is an associate teaching professor with expertise in macro social work and bridging the gap between research and practice in school social work. Her areas of expertise include social policy, resilience, community practice and adolescent behavioral health. She was voted Professor of the Year at the College of Social Work twice (2021 & 2019) and received a Community Engaged Teaching Award from FSU (2020).
Tomi Gomory is an associate professor, social work clinician and co-author of “Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs,” (2013) a book that closely reviews psychiatry and critiques its efforts to address mental health using a medical model. His research examines the conventionally accepted use of coercion in social services, the impact of the use of force on users of social services and the ethical impacts on helping professions.
Shamra Boel-Studt’s expertise centers on residential and out-of-home care for high-acuity, system-involved youth, with a focus on quality, effectiveness, and evidence-based practice. Her work examines how child-serving systems and policy environments shape behavioral health access, placement decisions, and outcomes. She specializes in the development and theory-driven evaluation of quality standards and uses applied, mixed-methods approaches, with an emphasis on lived experience, to drive system improvement and practice innovation.
