Peter H. ("PETE") Stoddard, M.S.W., Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
BIO:
Fifty-ish, caucasian, divorced, Unitarian-Universalist, I am a father, teacher, and a community activist. Founder and first director of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Council of Community Services (in 1993) - a United Way Agency, I have also served as board member of the Red River Improvement Corporation, the APSU Community Outreach Partnership Center, the APSU Business and Community Solutions Center's Data Center, the Clarksville Re-Investment Coalition, and the National Association of Planning Councils.
Areas of Interest:
Community action, organizing, social planning, and community development have been my vocational fields. I am certified by the Council on Social Work Education as a teacher in Macro (Community) Practice. My personal goals a re racial and gender empowerment, along with economic development.
My second area of interest is community mental illness treatment systems. How people get hooked up with mental health services; the consumer movement in mental illness, and consumer empowerment are important issues for me.
In the past I have worked with local mental illness treatment providers and the mentally ill homeless, in Clarksville and in Nashville, to provide services and develop treatment programs.
Carear:
Education:
B.A., Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, 1971 ( Philosophy)
M.S.W., San Francisco State University, 1981 (Social Development)
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1988
Publications:
In addition to numerous local studies and surveys ( including the 1999 Clarksville-Montgomery County United Way Needs Assessment, my publications include three journal articles and one book chapter on topics ranging from community development practice to national social policy.
Dissertation:
"Linking Definitions of Community and Organizational Domain in the Human Service Organization", Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, January, 1988.