About the Presenter

Dr. Asner-Self is an educator, clinical supervisor, and counselor for over 20 years, with a focus on using individual and group counseling across cultures to address issues related to exposure to trauma. Clients have included adolescents addressing issues related to bullying, depression, anxiety, sexual orientation, and gender. The majority of her work with children, teachers, and counselors, has been in a group format in schools, addressing mental health issues related to bullying, being an orphan, poverty, surviving natural disaster and compassion fatigue. Professor Kiwak has over ten years’ experience working in crisis intervention, working with children (including those on the autism spectrum) and parents. He also volunteers with a preventative program for at-risk adolescent boys and with children and youth at a Family Crisis Center. He is licensed in New York (LMHC) and New Jersey (LPC) and certified as a CASAC-T in New York. He teaches addiction courses in the CMHC program. As an Assistant Vice President of Residential Treatment, Professor Harry Scott, Jr., JD, LMSW, CASAC, oversees Samaritan Daytop Village’s “downstate� portfolio of residential treatment programs and determines clients’ eligibility and medical necessity for treatment. In this role, Scott also manages bed utilization and appropriate placement of clients into our system of care. He previously served as Program Director for the agency’s Van Wyck Residential Treatment Program in Queens. An accomplished attorney, Mr. Scott embraced a new career when he joined Samaritan Daytop Village in 2005 as a Case Manager. Prior to joining the agency, he spent nearly 30 years as a lawyer and general counsel with a specialty in labor relations. He represented organizations such as the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Department of Labor and New York City Off-Track Betting. He later spent seven years in private practice providing legal services to clients in criminal, landlord/tenant and family court cases. Mr. Scott previously served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department for the SUNY College at Old Westbury, and in the Labor Studies Program at Queens College. Mr. Scott received his Master of Social Work from Hunter College, and both a Juris Doctor in Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) and holds a graduate certificate from Cornell University’s Minority Labor Arbitrator Development Program. Mr. Scott is a Board Member of the Faith Mission Alcohol Crisis Center.