Education
- Ph.D., University of Maryland - Baltimore, 2004
- MSW, University of Maryland - Baltimore, 1997
- MA in Sociology, Syracuse University, 1993
- BA in Sociology and Economics, Salisbury State University, 1992
Areas of Interest
Political social work, community organizing and coalition-building, child welfare, trauma-informed group work, historical trauma, supportive housing, homelessness.
Biography
Dr. Mitch Rosenwald, LCSW, serves as Full Professor at Barry University School of Social Work. His practice experience includes both clinical and macro practice. Clinically, he has provided individual and group therapy with youth, adults, and seniors, conducted child protective services investigations, and facilitated a variety of groups in health (oncology, stroke) and mental health (stress management, reminiscence, adoption support).
His macro practice includes current service as an elected Representative to the Florida House of Representatives. Dr. Rosenwald served as past President of NASW-Florida and past Mayor and Commissioner of the City of Oakland Park. He served on the Board of Directors of the Broward League of Cities and as a voting delegate of the Florida League of Cities. He founded the Neighborhood Coalition of Oakland Park.
Dr. Rosenwald’s books include Political Diversity and Social Work, Advocating for Children in Foster and Kinship Care, and One Paradigm, Many Worlds: Conflict Resolution across the Disciplines. He is currently authoring a book on developing a model for social workers who serve in elected office. His peer-reviewed articles include detailing strategies for social workers to seek elected office, developing models for trauma-informed-mutual aid groups and historical trauma (respectively), evaluation of a Housing First model, research on foster care service delivery, and research and application relating to political diversity in the profession.
Dr. Rosenwald served as Faculty Affiliate for the Florida Institute of Child Welfare and as Coordinator of Barry’s Title IV-E Program for Child Welfare Training, He served as co-evaluator on the Evaluation of the HEART Model (Housing First model) for the U. S. Children’s Bureau grant demonstration and as evaluator of the Results Oriented Accountability (ROA) Program for the Florida Department of Children and Families. He received the Social Worker of the Year Award from NASW-Florida in 2009.