Associate Professor, Co-Director, Principal Investigator
UNC School of Social Work
Sarah E. “Betsy” Bledsoe, Ph.D., MPhil, MSW, is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work. She is Co-Director of the National Initiative for Trauma Education and Workforce Development and a consultant with the Center for Adjustment, Resilience & Recovery – both part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She is also principal investigator of the Community Voices Project and Whole Robeson Together, both community based participatory research studies in partnership with families and service providers in Robeson County, N.C. She received a doctoral degree and masters of philosophy from Columbia University School of Social Work, a masters of social work from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee. Her research reflects over two decades of experience conducting community-based and national studies to strengthen the mental health of adults, adolescents, children and families, particularly those surviving poverty, discrimination and trauma. She has expertise in mental health services, intervention and implementation research with a focus on mood, anxiety, and trauma related disorders during the perinatal period and beyond
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