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Elise Johnson, LCSW (she/her/hers)

Adjunct lecturer, Volunteer/Chair Collections Committee, Emergency Dept LCSW
Cal State Dominguez Hills; California Social Welfare Archives, Long Beach Medical Center Emergency Department
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Elise Johnson is an LCSW, LPS who has been a social worker in her hometown of Los Angeles for over 30 years. She received her MSW from California State University, Long Beach and began her career in child welfare working for L.A. County DCFS and then transistioned to outpatient community mental health while pursuing her LCSW.
She has spent the majority of her career as a clinical social worker at Long Beach Medical Center/Miller Children’s Hospital. In her role in the Emergency Department she provides crisis mental health care, psychiatric assessments, trauma support interventions, and end of life support along with a myriad of other psychosocial interventions.
As an amatetur social welfare historian who focuses on a critical examination of social work in L.A., Elise volunteers with the California Social Welfare Archives (swarchive.org). As the Chair of the Collections Committee, she loves spending her spare time combing through the archives. In her lectures & presentations, she aims to highlight BIPOC and other under-represented social workers whose contribution to our profession may have been overlooked or forgotten.
Elise is contract faculty at Cal State Dominguez Hills where she teaches two advanced clinical courses: The DSM-5-TR Diagnosis and Clinical Social Work in Medicine, both taught from a CRT and anti-racist framework. She teaches the HBSE series as well. In HBSE II she centers macro and social theory around the people and neighborhoods of L.A. and the role social work has played in either fighting against or perpetuating social injustice.

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