Dr. Annecy Baez
Dr. Baez is an Associate Professor and Director of the Social Work Latino Student Initiative, and Project Director of the HRSA Scholarships for Disadvantaged students at Touro College Graduate School of Social Work. She has been a clinical social worker for more than thirty years providing trauma informed mental health services to individual, groups and families in such agencies as the Madeline Borg clinic of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in the Bronx, and the Hispanic Clinic at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, to name a few. She was formerly the Director of the Diagnostic Center at Julia Dyckman Andrus Memorial, a diagnostic residential center for traumatized children and their families.
Dr. Baez has also worked clinically and administratively at City University of New York as a Director of the Counseling Center at Lehman College and at Bronx Community College as the Associate Dean of Student Support Services and Interim Director of the Psychological Services. At Lehman College, she created an innovative trauma informed, multi-theoretical counseling center to meet the unique mental health needs of students. She obtained various grants to create and implement such programs as Depression Screening online, and a Safe Zone training for LGBT youth, as well as groups, workshops for awareness in such areas as depression, anxiety, trauma, sexual assault, domestic violence and suicide prevention. To promote resilience, she created the Art4Wellness program, which integrated mindfulness meditation, dream work and expressive arts, as well as a stress-counseling program to increase self-care.
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Dr. Annecy Baez
Associate Professor and Director of the Social Work Latino Student Initiative
Project Director of the HRSA Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students
Touro College Graduate School of Social Work
Mail: Touro College Graduate School of Social Work
27 West 23rd Street Room 544
New York, NY 10010
Portal: https://gssw.touro.edu/master-of-social-work/faculty/annecy-baez.php
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