Steven Tierney

Steven Tierney is the program director of CIIS's new graduate counseling psychology concentration in Community Mental Health, to begin fall 2008. He has an M.A. in Counseling and Social Psychology from Wayne State University and an Ed.D .in Education, Leadership, and Supervision from Northeastern University. He has also done post-graduate work in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Steven has worked in community-based organizations in Boston and San Francisco for three decades, creating and providing innovative mental health and medical service models for adolescents and transition-aged youth. He has been the principal investigator on several Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS), examining models of adolescent HIV, mental health, and substance abuse services. Steven will continue research in these areas and looks forward to working with others in the CIIS community who share these interests.

Steven is member of the Health Commission for the City and County of San Francisco. He has taught at a number of universities and has a lifelong interest in experimental education, begun in his days as a student leader at Monteith College (a university without walls program in Detroit).

• Email: stierney@ciis.edu