Mary Martin

Mary Martin, MSW, LSW, is a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Rutgers University-Newark and a veteran child-welfare practitioner with more than three decades of service within New Jersey’s Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS). She concurrently holds the rank of Certified Seminar Field Instructor at Rutgers and has taught courses on child-welfare theory and methods since 1997.

Education:

• M.S.W., Rutgers University, Graduate School of Social Work, 1984
• B.A. in Sociology, Rutgers University, 1979

Research & Professional Interests: Ms. Martin’s work centers on the identification and prevention of child maltreatment, risk assessment, family-team meeting facilitation, and the development of ethical, evidence-based interventions for vulnerable children and families. She is certified in domestic-violence intervention, anger-management counselling, and the Case Practice Model, and she regularly trains social-service staff on these modalities.

Publications: No peer-reviewed research articles are listed in the supplied materials.

Honours & Awards:

• Exemplary Volunteer Service Award, Central Ward Coalition of Youth Agencies (1985)
• Outstanding Volunteer Award, United Way of Essex and West Hudson (2000)
• Irvington Township Civic Award (2013)

Grants & Advising: While specific grant funding is not detailed, Ms. Martin has overseen large-scale program budgets at DYFS and Babyland Family Services and has mentored hundreds of social-work interns through her long-standing field-instruction role at Rutgers.

Laboratories & Teams: She leads no formal research laboratory, but her supervisory roles at DYFS and her classroom and field instruction at Rutgers constitute an ongoing practice-based “team” devoted to workforce development in child-welfare services.