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Lois Stepney, Ph.D

Assistant Clinical Professor
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States

Assistant Clinical Faculty Lois Marie Clay Stepney, PhD, MSW, LISW-S has served in the Columbus Community since 1995 in the mental health and medical fields as a master’s level social worker in both clinical and administrative roles. Two of the accomplishments Dr. Stepney is most proud of involving clinical work includes starting a juvenile sex offender treatment program as the Director of Community Support Programs at the Ohio Youth Advocate Program which continues almost two decades later under the National Youth Advocate Program. In addition, Dr. Stepney led the conceptualization and expansion of the comprehensive YOU Matter Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, which provides emotional support to staff, faculty, students, and volunteers dealing with exposures to potentially traumatic events in their work at a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center and Research Institute.
In academia, Dr. Stepney served in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University as the MSW Program Director from Autumn 2016 – Spring of 2020, leading the charge in scaling the online program from 17 enrolled students to more than 400 during her tenure. Dr. Stepney also served as the Curriculum Director in the College of Social Work until Spring Semester of 2021, involved in the coordination of efforts launching the curriculum re-design for the MSW Program. Dr. Stepney’s scholarship interest is in the areas of healing justice, helping professionals’ wellness, Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) wellness, social work pedagogy, and transformative social work practices.

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