TEACHING INTERESTS

Cultural awareness and social diversity, macro social work practice, social work values and ethics, home health and hospice, death and dying/bereavement counseling

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW)
Social Service Supervisor, Community Health Professionals
Coordinator, TRAILS Children's Bereavement Camp, Community Health Professionals and St. Rita's Hospice
Hospice Memorial Service Coordinator, Community Health Professionals
Local Discussion Monitor, Living with Grief Annual Teleconference, Hospice Foundation of America
Hospice Volunteer Trainer, Community Health Professionals
Social Worker, Van Wert County Juvenile Court Youth Bureau 

PUBLICATIONS

Yakos-Brown, A. Panama Learning Community. Presented at the McMaster Symposium - The Question of Individual Liberties as Critical to Improving the Human Condition. April 6, 2017. Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.

Yakos-Brown, A. Small Group Facilitator at Conversation on Feminism, Presenters Harper, M.C. & Dennis, D. March 31, 2017. Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.

Yakos-Brown, A. Panama Learning Community. Presented at the McMaster Symposium -The Question of Individual Liberties as Critical to Improving the Human Condition. April 14, 2016. Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.

Yakos-Brown, A. Panama - Nicaragua honors exploratory trip. Presented at the McMaster Symposium - The Question of Individual Liberties as Critical to Improving the Human Condition. April 8, 2015. Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.

Yakos-Brown, A. Communication techniques to avoid workplace conflict. Presented for Promedica’s Defiance Regional Medical Center. May, 2014; Promedica DRMC, Defiance, Ohio.

Golden, S. & Yakos-Brown, A. An action plan to D.I.E. for. Diversity Council Workshop. April, 2014; Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.

Yakos-Brown, A. Ethical decision making in practice. Distinguished Faculty Presentation. March, 2014; Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.

Defiance College Diversity Council. Crossing Borders. Presented at the McMaster Symposium - The Question of Individual Liberties as Critical to Improving the Human Condition. April, 2013; Defiance College, Defiance, Ohio.

AWARDS & HONORS

Distinguished Faculty, Defiance College, 2012-2013
Van Wert County Women of Achievement Award, 2002

ACADEMIC DEGREES

MSW with a concentration of Clinical Practice of Child and Family Services, Ohio State University (1990)
B.S. in Social Work and Psychology, Defiance College (1986)