School of Social Work, Missouri State University

901 S. National Avenue   Springfield MO  65897

(417) 836-6953 mailo: SusanDollar@MissouriState.edu

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, August 1998. Title of Dissertation: Retention in Selected Therapeutic Communities for Polydrug Abusers
• Master of Social Work (MSW). University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, August 1990
• Bachelor of Health Services Management (BHS). University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, December 1981

• Missouri State University Director, School of Social Work, Feb. 20, 2008 to present; MSW Coordinator, Associate Professor, November 8, 2007-Feb. 19, 2008; Associate Professor, January 8, 2001-November 8, 2007 (tenured 8-15-05) 200 Professional Bldg. 901 South National Springfield MO 65804 (417) 836-6953
• Director, Rural Health Programs Southeast Louisiana Area Health Education Center – November 1, 1998 to December 14, 2000
  223 S. Cate. St., Hammond LA  70403 (504) 345-1119
• Evaluation Field Coordinator- New Orleans Target Cities Project Ruach, Inc. - June 17, 1996 to September 30, 1998
  2025 Canal Street, Ste. 131 New Orleans LA 70112, (504) 529-8889 
• Research Intern- New Orleans Target Cities Project Ruach, Inc. - November 1995 to June 16, 1996
  1515 Poydras St., Suite 1310, New Orleans LA  70112, (504) 529-8889
• Program Coordinator, Southeast Louisiana Area Health Education Center-August 1990- January 1993
  223 S. Kate St., Hammond LA 70403, (504) 345-1119
• Research Associate, University of Missouri Cooperative Extension. Missouri Rural Innovation Institute, March-August 1990
  529 Clark Hall, University of Missouri Extension, Columbia MO  65211, (314) 882-5859
• U.S. Air Force, Rank:  Captain (Regular), 1982-1987

• Assistant/Associate Professor, January 8, 2001 to present, School of Social Work,  Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri.
• Assistant Professor, gratis, September 1999 to December 2000, Dept. of Public and Preventive Medicine, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. 
• Assistant Professor, adjunct, January 2000 to December 2000, Dept. of Social Work, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond Louisiana. 

• 2008- Leslie Hewes Award for best social science article published in Great Plains Research in 2007. Co-authors: Drs. Suzanne Walker and Robert Amoker.
• 2007- Missouri State University Sponsored Projects Special Recognition Award (for grant projects)
• 2004 - Missouri State University College of Health and Human Services Research Award.

• July 31, 2009 (under review)- Senior Health U (SHU)- Health Literacy for Seniors.  Dollar, Susan & Day, Michele (co-PIs).  Missouri Health Literarcy Enhancement Demonstration Projects, Missouri Foundation for Health, St Louis, MO (under review).

• Missouri Foundation for Health, Responsive Grant Proposal, December 15, 2003.  Awarded $305,000 over three years.   Dollar, Susan (principal investigator); Reid, Helen, Hinck, Susan.  "Salud Para La Vida (Health for Life)".   Designed to address Latino health service needs in southwest Missouri and to train health professions and practicing health professionals in rural health practice with Latino populations.
• Southwest Missouri State University, Faculty Development Grant, March 2002.  Funded for $5,188. Walker, Suzanne and Dollar, Susan.  Health Needs of Latinos in Southwest Missouri:  Issues, Concerns, and Barriers to Healthcare (funded).    

• Dollar, S, Ried, H., & Sullivan, L. (accepted June 2009). Better health through the Salud para la Vida (Health for Life) Project. Contemporary Rural Social Work
• Walker, Susan, Dollar, Susan, Amonker, Robert (Spring 2007). Population Characteristics and Health Service Use by Southwest Missouri Latino Immigrants. Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Science. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.
• Dollar, Susan (2005).  Adaptive Strategies for Rural Families living with HIV/AIDS. In Yuen, F.K.O. (Ed.), Family Health Practice with Children and Families. Binghamton.   NY:  Haworth Press.
• Dollar, Susan (2005).  Immigrant Latino Youth Health Risks and Implications for Practice. In Jennings, M.A., Gunther, J. and Summers, A. (eds.).  Strategies and Techniques in Family Health Practice for Empowering Children and Adolescents. Pittsburgh PA:  Mellon Press.
• Wirth, J. & Dollar, S. (2004, Oct.).  Identifying the Concerns of Rural Service Providers and the Hispanic Community in Southwest Missouri.  Great Plains Research, 14 (2). 253-270.
• Kirk, Alan & Dollar, Susan (2002).  PTSD symptomatology among a selected sample of  college students.  Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 1 56-65.
• Dollar, Susan (2002).  Adapting Family Health Principles to a Hispanic Migrant Health Care Model. In J.T. Pardeck (Ed.), Family Health Social Work Practice:  A Macro Level Approach.  Westport CT:  Greenwood Publishing. 
• Dollar, Susan, Jakes, Brian (1999, spring).  Louisiana AHEC Center serves as financial resource center.  The National AHEC Bulletin, v. 16 (2), pp. 28-29.
• Becnel, J., Ray, S., Detiege, J., Dollar, S., Gable, W. (1999, July-Sept).  Target Cities as an effective solution to the special problems of treatment and recovery in the city of laissez le bon temps roulle. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, v. 31 (3), pp. 225-31.
• Dollar, Susan (1991 winter). Farm crisis and human service coordinating councils. Journal of Extension, v 24, p. 30.

Program Evaluation

• Dollar, Susan (2002, June).  Program evaluation for the "Southeast Area Rural and Child Health" (SEARCH) outreach project.  Funded by the Baxter Allegiance Foundation, Deerfield, IL.
• Dollar, Susan (2001, May).  Program evaluation for the "Louisiana Learning about Pregnancy and STDS (LLAPS)" abstinence-based education program targeting rural youth. Funded through the Dept. of Health and Human Services, Office of Rural Health, Rockville, MD.

• Dollar, Susan (June 2009). Connecting Students with the Rural Community through Photonovels. Paper presentation, National Association for Rural Mental Health, 35th Annual Conference, June 17-20, 2009, Albuquerque, NM.
• Dollar, Susan (accepted). Rural Route 502: Engaging Student in “Active” Distance Learning. Electronic poster session at Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2008.
• Dollar, Susan (October 2007). Salud para la Vida means Health for Life. Poster session at Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting. San Francisco CA, Oct. 29, 2007.
• Dollar, Susan & Wirth, Jim (March 2005). Academic Preparation and Community Collaboration  through the Salud para la Vida (Health for Life) Project.  Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors)     Conference, March 30- April 1, 2005, Columbia MO.
• Dollar, Susan & Bowling Regina (November 2004).  Salud para la Vida (Health for Life):  A pilot project to address Hispanic Health in rural Missouri.  Missouri Area Health Education Center Joint Boards Retreat, November 19-20, 2004, Lake Ozark, MO.
• Walker, Suzanne & Dollar, Susan (March 11, 2004).  Quantitative and Qualitative Findings- Research from Southwestern Missouri.  Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) Conference, March 10-12, 2004, St. Louis, MO.
• Dollar, S. (October, 2003).  Addressing the Health and Social Service Needs of Missouri's Expanding Hispanic Population.  Presented at Missouri Rural Health Association Annual Conference, October 2-3, 2003, Lake Ozark, MO.
• Walker, S. & Dollar, S. (March, 2003).  Health Issues, Concerns, and Barriers to Health Care for Latinos in Southwest Missouri.  Cambio de Colores (Change of Colors) Conference, March 12-14, 2003, Kansas City, MO.
• Dollar, S. (Dec. 2001).  The Use of Data to Make Your Case.  Presented at the 11^th Annual Midwestern Farmworker Stream Forum, Dec. 5-8, 2001 in Austin, TX.
• Dollar, S., Ray. S., England S., Torre, E. (March 1998). Retention in Therapeutic Communities for Polydrug Abusers. Presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Annual Meeting,  New Orleans, LA.
• Becnel, J., Dennis, M., Ray, S., Dollar, S. (March 1998).  An Analytic Model for Assessment and Matching of Patients to Treatment Modalities. Presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
• Dollar, Susan, Torres, Elizabeth. (1996). Child Care for Student Moms:  Intersection of Social Work Policy and Social Work Education.  Council on Social Work Education Annual Meeting, Washington, DC

• 2007- June 30, 2008- Chair, MSW Program and Admission Committee
• 2007- 2008- Co-Chair, Social Work search committee
• 2007-2008- University Faculty Senate member
• 2001-present (chair 1/03-present)- School of Social Work Program Evaluation Committee
• 2005-present- School of Social Work Personnel Committee
• 2005-2007- (2006-2007, Chair)- College and Health and Human Services College Council
• Nov. 2005- College Ad Hoc Pay Equity Adjustments Committee
• 2005-2006- Chair, Social Work Directors Search Committee
• 2002-2006- School of Social Work BSW Admissions/Program Committee
• 2004-2006- School of Social Work Field Committee
• 2002-2004- University Graduate Council
• 2001-2002 - College Awards Committee
• 2001-2002 - College Multidisciplinary Forum

• February 11-12, 2008- Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) site team visit for reaffirmation of the BSW program at Texas A&M University- Kingsville (TX).
• January 2001/present - Chair (1/2003-present).  As Chair, I manage program evaluation tool development, administration and analysis.  In 2004, I worked with Drs. Summer and Brannen to address the need for improved methodologies related to evaluation and continuous improvement (ES 8.0, 8.1).  The progress report was accepted by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accreditation committee in October 2004.
• October 5-7, 2005 - Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) site team visit at the University of Nevada-Reno.
• April 2005- Completed Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) site visitor training at the Annual Council on Social Work Education Conference, New York City, NY.
• October 2001 - Assisted in developing the School of Social Work's BSW/MSW Self Study document for the CSWE Accreditation team review conducted in November 2001. 

• January 2001-present.  Licensed clinical social worker in Missouri.
• March 21, 2001- present- Board member, Southwest Missouri Area Health Education Center (SWMO AHEC), Springfield, Missouri.  Advisory role capacity for nonprofit community based organization whose role is to help improve the misdistribution of health professionals in medically underserved regions of the State, and to provide educational programs to improve primary health care outcomes.
• December 2001-present. Member, Ozarks Regional Alliance, a Latino advocacy group in southwestern Missouri.  In the past year, I have presented findings from two research projects:  Salad para la Vida (Health for Life), and finding from faculty development grant which surveyed Latino health issues from service provider and client perspectives.
• July 2005- Abstract Review Committee member, Council on Social Work Education Annual Conference.  Critiqued eight proposals and rated them on the basis of conceptual clarity, appropriate use of a research design and statistical methods to measure the hypothesis stated in the proposal.
• December 2, 2001- 2005. Board of Directors, Missouri Rural Health Association.  Supports rural health initiatives through partnerships and advocacy efforts in statewide governmental and community settings.
• July 2003.  National Council on Social Work Education Abstract Review Committee member.  Critiqued eight proposals and rated them on the basis of conceptual clarity, appropriate use of a research design and statistical methods to measure the hypothesis stated in the proposal.
• January 2003- 2004. National AHEC Organization, Committee on Research and Evaluation Advisory Committee- advise on the development of a national evaluation tool to measure program outcome effectiveness throughout the AHEC system.
• October 2004- Abstract Review Committee member, Council on Social Work Education Annual Conference.  Critiqued eight proposals and rated them on the basis of conceptual clarity, appropriate use of a research design and statistical methods to measure the hypothesis stated in the proposal.
• November 17-18, 2003.  Expert reviewer for Network Planning Grant Reviews, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, Washington DC.
• November 2001.  Expert National Review Panelist- reviewed proposals which analyzed national secondary datasets related to substance abuse treatment outcomes.  Sponsored by the Center for Substance Abuse and Treatment (CSAT), SAMSHA, Bethesda, MD.
• July 2001.  National Council on Social Work Education Abstract Review Committee member.  Critiqued ten proposals and rated them on the basis of conceptual clarity, appropriate use of a research design and statistical methods to measure the hypothesis stated in the proposal.
• January 1, 2000-December 31, 2000- Mayoral appointment to the 2000 New Orleans Regional AIDS Planning Council (NORAPC).  NORAPC acts in partnership with the City of New Orleans and the Health Resources Services Administration for the effective administration of Ryan White funds in the New Orleans Eligible Metropolitan Area.  
• June 24-27, 1999- Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.  Finalist for 2000 Price Fellowship for HIV Prevention Leadership Program, Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. Atlanta, GA.