ODU Human Services Program

02/27/2024

HMSV faculty and family supported the Lady Monarchs and Breast Cancer Awareness 🏀

12/02/2023

HMSV Students taking our Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Fundraising course organized a clothing drive for children with great success! Supervised by Dr. Frankie Rivas!

10/12/2023

🌟 Counseling & Human Services Faculty 2023 🌟

10/04/2023

New Faculty Spotlight!

Kevin C. Snow, Ph.D., M.A., NCC, ACS is an Assistant Professor of Human Services at Old Dominion University. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Counselor Education, Clinical Mental Health Program Director, and the outgoing Chair in the Department of Psychology & Counseling at Marywood University in Scranton, PA. He was also previously an Assistant Professor of Counseling at Texas A&M University-Commerce, near Dallas, TX. A native Pennsylvanian, he is a graduate of Shippensburg University of PA, Indiana University of PA, Penn State Harrisburg, and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA (Ph.D.). Prior to becoming a professor, he worked in a diverse range of community mental health clinical settings for 12 years. His research interests include spirituality and spiritual competence and inclusion, qualitative research design, advocacy in social justice and diversity issues in the helping professions, and international counseling issues. He serves on the editorial review boards of the national journal Counselor Education and Supervision and the international Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is a past co-editor of the Journal of Human Services and is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Human Services Scholarship and Interprofessional Collaboration. He is the author of many published articles, book chapters, and reports, and is co-author of The Dictionary of Counseling and Human Services, among other writing and editorial projects. He is active within state,
regional, national, and international counseling and human services professional associations including NOHS, ACA, ACES, CSI, IAC, and is past-president of the Northeast Pennsylvania Counseling Association
(NEPCA).

09/30/2023

As a part of ODU Community Cares, Human Services students navigated patients through a free Women's Day Health Clinic at PiN Ministries, including mammograms, pap-smears, physical therapy, hearing and vision testing, mental health, and dental services.

09/24/2023

New Faculty Spotlight:
Katie Hughes

09/22/2023

Dr. Chaniece Winfield spearheaded a community-wide event to view the documentary "Tipping the Pain Scale," which explores systemic failures in approaches to addictions by following six characters and their innovated interventions in the addition crisis. Students, faculty, and community partners in-person and online viewed a panel discussion following the film, panelists including our own Drs. Jason Sawyer and Shuntay Tarver, plus an ODU alum Dr. Kurt Hooks. Congrats to the HMSV team who made it all happen!

07/26/2023

Human Services students collaborated through ODU Community Care with students from multiple universities to provide a free healthcare clinic in Virginia Beach. They worked interprofessionally alongside nurses, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, therapy pets, and more to ensure kids could get their vaccines and physicals before school starts!

07/24/2023

Dr. Carlisle and Dean Simmons hosted a private graduation ceremony for Ms. Lorie Fisher who was unable to attend the regularly occurring ceremony. What a beautiful way to serve and include all our students. We hope to help others in the future, so reach out!

07/09/2023

The Interprofessional Scholars Program
(through URHS https://www.odu.edu/honors/research)

The Human Services Program has developed a new Interprofessional Honors Scholars Program focusing on interprofessional practice and linked to the Perry Honors College’s Undergraduate Research Honors Scholars (URHS) Program which will show up on your transcript. The Human Services Program will issue you a Certificate of Completion.

This is a non-course-based Research-Creativity-Scholarship (RCS) experience.

Summary: Obtain honors status on your transcript and a certificate from the HMSV Program for completing 120 hours of clinical interprofessional practice, research, and writing over the course of 3 semesters, overlap permitted with your 50 volunteer hours in HMSV 368.

Enroll:

Self-Enroll in Canvas:
https://canvas.odu.edu/enroll/3JNRMT

Complete the HMSV Application: https://odu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3JEQUN7vXPpdIHA

Contact: [email protected]

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06/09/2023

This week, ODU hosted middle and high school students from Norfolk Academy. HMSV Instructor Frank Scaringello facilitated an activity with them on physical and mental well-being. His students taking HMSV 339 Interpersonal Relations worked with the students as mentors.

05/30/2023

Consider submitting or joining the editorial staff at: https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/jhssic/