Biography
Craig Schwalbe, MSW, PhD is a Professor in the Columbia University School of Social Work and director of the Workplace Center. He has over a decade of direct practice experience in child welfare and community mental health settings, including roles in direct practice and administration. Dr. Schwalbe’s current scholarship focusses on the twin goals of defining racial equity for social work practice and establishing evidence-based strategies for probation-involved adolescents. He was the recipient of the WT Grant Foundation Scholars award in 2009, which funded a study of success and failure on probation, and led a UNICEF-funded international development effort to design and implement juvenile diversion programs for delinquent youths in Jordan. Currently, he is the PI on the implementation and evaluation of the YA WORC program, the Workplace Center’s signature career readiness program, and co-PI on an NSF funded study of adolescent comprehension of their conditions and case plans. He is the author of numerous peer reviewed journal articles and co-author of Hepworth’s Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills (11th edition). He holds a BA from Concordia College in Moorhead Minnesota, and MSW from Augsburg College, and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.