Susan Clement, LPC, NCC, President, Michigan Counseling & Clinical Supervision

Susan Clement is a counseling professional with designations of Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC).  She is President of Michigan Counseling & Clinical Supervision specializing in counselor supervision and clinical training and development.  She also serves as the Law Enforcement Liaison for Lapeer County Community Mental Health Agency.

Ms. Clement is a highly regarded instructor in the field of Counseling, Cognitive Behavioral Training and Motivational Interviewing.  She has taught Techniques of Counseling at Oakland University.  She specializes in focus on the importance of the therapeutic relationship.

Ms. Clements is an associate instructor with Joyfields Institute where she provides training in Motivational Interviewing Skills, Effective Case Management, and Cognitive Behavioral approaches.  She provides extensive training in Michigan to Law Enforcement on how to build therapeutic relationships and does Clinical Supervision for individuals and groups, including the Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment Program.

Ms. Clement has a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from University of Michigan, a Masters in Counseling from Oakland University where she is currently completing a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision.  The title of her dissertation is “Understanding How Excellent Empathy Develops”

Mark Lowis, LMSW, MSW, MINT, President MML Consulting

Mark Lowis has extensive experience in the public and private sector for mental health and substance abuse services.  He offers assistance to agencies and facilities in the design, development, and management of the following areas:

·         Utilization Management ·         Quality Management ·         Utilization Review ·         Clinical Supervision ·         Staff Development and Training ·         Clinical Chart Review and Performance Monitoring ·         Contracts and Services Analyst

Mark has provided leadership and consultation in Utilization Management (UM) and Quality Management (QM) to various agencies and at the state level over the years.  He has helped agencies reduce their dollar amount of loss for non-certs and denials by helping to improve Utilization Review (UR) processes and staff trainings.  Mark is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and provides training and clinical supervision in this evidenced based practice.  Additionally, Mark provides team building activities and training that help to increase the partnerships between functional departments, management, and contractors in the field of mental health and substance abuse.  Mark has a great deal of experience designing and developing performance measurement systems for maintaining the standards of accrediting bodies, as well as systems for continuous quality improvement, contracting, and services analysis.

Dr. David L. Myers, Professor of Criminology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 

Dr. David L. Myers, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), where he first joined the faculty in 1998. He has also served as Interim Director at the John Murtha Institute for Homeland Security.  He earned his PhD in 1999 from the University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and previously received a Master of Science in Administration of Justice and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from Shippensburg University.

Dr. Myers has taught more than 15 different courses at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels, specializing in classes on research methods and quantitative analysis, juvenile justice and delinquency, and criminal justice policy, planning, and evaluation. From 1999 to 2002, he served as the criminology master’s program coordinator at IUP, and from 2002 to 2008 he served as the criminology doctoral program coordinator. He has supervised the teaching and research of dozens of criminology doctoral students and has advised a variety of student organizations and community groups. 

Dr. Myers has published two books (most recently Boys among Men: Trying and Sentencing Juveniles as Adults, Praeger Publishers, 2005) and nearly 30 journal articles, book chapters, or other scholarly works. He also has presented more than 35 papers at national and regional conferences and is currently the Editor of Criminal Justice Policy Review (a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal published by Sage Publications). He has received several grants to support his research and previously served as the Director of the IUP Center for Research in Criminology. 

Dr. Myers also has served as the Dean’s Associate in the IUP School of Graduate Studies and Research; the Interim Vice Provost for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies at IUP; and the Interim Executive Director of the IUP Research Institute. He currently is serving as the Interim Director of the IUP Murtha Institute for Homeland Security.  In the community, he has served as Chairperson of Indiana Area Communities That Care, President of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Indiana County, and Advisor to Kids on Campus of Big Brothers Big Sisters.

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