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Dr. Rebekah Hazlett-Knudsen - PhD, LMSW, BSW

Locations:	Macon - Teacher Education Building - 304 Phone: 478-757-2544
Office Hours:	Spring 2024 Classes: Tuesdays 9:30-12:00 pm -- SOCW 3600: Social Work Research Thursdays 9:30 am - 12:00 pm -- SOCW 3500: Social Work Practice with Communities and Organizations Online: SOCW 3005: Introduction to Forensic Social Work *Office/Advising Availability: In Person or Virtual on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:00-9:30 am & 12:00 - 4:00 pm Virtual only: Mondays & Wednesdays: 10:00 am - 2:00 pm To schedule an appointment, please visit my Bookings page at https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/20cf210afa334c5da974718dcfd71247@mga.edu?anonymous&ep=plink *If the times listed do not work for your schedule, please email rebekah.hazlettknuds@mga.edu for additional meeting options. If you need to schedule a meeting during another instructor’s class time, please check with that instructor first.
Biography:	I have been a social work educator, at the BSW and MSW level, for over 15 years. I love social work! Before joining the faculty of MGA in January of 2018 and assuming the role of BSW Program Director, I was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP) for nearly five years and served as BSW Program Director. Before joining UNCP, I taught for six years as a faculty member of the UCF School of Social Work, and before that taught in the BSW program at Western Illinois University. Before discovering a passion for teaching, I worked in many areas of social work practice, including domestic violence and sexual assault advocacy, case management, and counseling with dementia patients and families, as a community-based therapist, medical social work, and hospice. My greatest interests in social work practice and research include policy and social barriers experienced by parenting students; the impact of disparities in breastfeeding on the attachment development between infants and caregivers; social justice efforts related to race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity; and environmental social work.
Courses:	I teach across the social work curriculum.
Education:	PhD, Public Affairs- Cognate Area: Social Work - University of Central Florida MSW, Clinical Social Work - University of Central Florida BSW - Western Illinois University
Professional Experience:	My greatest interests in social work practice and research include transformative learning, the needs of student-parents, policy and social barriers to breastfeeding; the impact of disparities in breastfeeding on the attachment development between infants and caregivers; social justice efforts related to race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity; and environmental social work efforts.
Professional Affiliations:	Alpha Delta Mu Honor Society The Association of Social Work Baccalaureate Program Directors Breastfeeding USA Delta Epsilon Iota, Academic Honor Society National Association of Social Workers Phi Alpha Honor Society
Awards and Honors:	Middle Georgia State University, Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2022. Outstanding Faculty Member, School of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Middle Georgia State University, 2020. Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, 2009 Nancy Coney Phi Alpha Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Department of Social Work, Western Illinois University, 2006.
Publications:	Publications & Scholarship Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2022). BSW Program Candidacy Full Self-Study (Including Accreditation Standard 4: Assessment). Developed under the Council on Social Work Education 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Middle Georgia State University. Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2021). Pleasant Hill neighborhood needs assessment report. Prepared for the United Way and OneMacon in support of the L.H. Williams Elementary Community School. Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2021). BSW program assessment plan and summary of outcomes. Report developed and completed for SACS. Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2021). BSW Program Candidacy Benchmark II Self-Study. Developed under the Council on Social Work Education 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Middle Georgia State University. Candidacy granted June 2021. Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2020). BSW Program Candidacy Benchmark I Self-Study. Developed under the Council on Social Work Education 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. Middle Georgia State University. Candidacy granted June 2021. Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2020). TESW: Choices for change. Inspire Magazine, Department of Teacher Education and Social Work, Middle Georgia State University. Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2019). Online education as transformative opportunity. Inspire Magazine, Department of Teacher Education and Social Work, Middle Georgia State University. Hazlett-Knudsen, R., Scordato, M., Battle, K. (2019). BSW New Academic Program Proposal submitted to the University System of Georgia, Board of Regents. Hazlett-Knudsen, R., Hardy, V., Locklear, C., Nyamezea, Y., Thomas, J., & Woodside, S. (2018) BSW Program Reaffirmation Self-Study developed under the Council on Social Work Education 2015 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards. University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Reaffirmation granted during the October 2018, CSWE Commission on Accreditation meeting. Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2017). BSW program assessment plan and summary of outcomes. Report developed and completed for SACS. Hazlett-Knudsen, R. (2017): Development of an evidence-based early-childhood (0-24 months) Reading Program Curriculum for the Healthy Start, Inc., University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Hazlett-Knudsen, R., Elswick, S., McLendon, M., Saultz, J., Stage, J. (2013). Thirty-day readmission reduction: Program evaluation of the Orlando Health MSW program field unit support program.

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