Alumna keeps social work roots while growing women's health resources
Liz Bland, SSW '05, has built a career combining her expertise in health policy and administration with ground-level clinical social work. Even as she was building a new behavioral health division of the Philadelphia-area Main Line Health system in 2013—creating what would become the first of two outpatient mental health centers for women—she worked hands-on as a psychotherapist, seeing patients as part of that program.
“That's the beauty of the social work degree. You have the ability to play different roles in organizations,” says Bland, who received her Master of S...