Repertoire of Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Teaching and Training
Dr. Laurellé C. Warner has extensive teaching and training experiences that span the East and West Coasts. Her natural affinity and skills in making presentations and conducting trainings propelled her into teaching as a profession. This journey commenced with her acceptance into the State of Connecticut Minority Teaching Fellowship Program.
Her teaching interests include theories and their application; micro, mezzo, & macro practice issues; diversity and ethics; social, economic, environmental, & racial justice; leadership & social responsibility.
In addition to teaching, Dr. Warner provides a range of workshops, trainings, and presentations. She also has been invited to give keynote addresses.
Clinical Social Work Practice
Dr. Warner is a licensed clinical social worker with a wide repertoire of clinical knowledge and skills in areas, such as, mental health; child, adolescent, & family treatment; trauma; racial, ethnic, & minority (REM) issues; intersectionality and identity issues; emergency psychiatric mobile services and crisis response; and school-based services to name a few. She has worked with diverse populations in a variety of settings.
Currently, she uses her practice expertise to offer clinical services to individuals with intersecting gender, sexual, and racial identity issues. Dr. Warner also facilitates a Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) support group. These services have proven valuable both to the clients and community.
Dr. Warner also provides clinical supervision to social work candidates working toward licensure.
Research
The passionate focus of Dr. Warner's ongoing research is resilience, with special emphasis on qualitatively examining resilience in Black women and men. Ultimately, her goal is to contribute a culturally responsive and inclusive knowledge base about resilience, its meaning, nature, and processes.
In addition to her research on resilience, Dr. Warner is currently involved in two mixed method research projects that are committed to centering local Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) viewpoints, perspectives and solutions relating to creating a deeper sense of safety, place, belonging, and wellbeing.
The projects are focused on generating data informed practical and applied knowledge directly from BIPOCs so that their lived experiences and social action solutions play an instrumental role in the process of transforming community structures, municipal systems, and business institutions into just, equitable, and safe spaces that are working on dismantling practices and processes, which reinforce institutionalized patriarchy, colonialism, and racism.
Dr. Warner also offers consultation, support, and mentorship to doctoral students working on their dissertation.