Kathryn Gould, MSSW, LCSW is an Adjunct/ Part Time Instructor at both the University of Kentucky and Campbellsville University.
She will complete her DSW in 2022, completed her MSSW at the University of Louisville in 2008 and her BASW from the University of Kentucky in 2005.
Since 2011 Mrs. Gould has been Licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in the state of Kentucky and has 16 years working in the field of social work.
The first part of her career included clinical, crisis and case management with foster care youth providing trauma and substance use treatment.
Mrs. Gould went on to work with high-risk university students as a clinical case manager at the University of Kentucky providing both clinical, crisis, and case management services, consultation, and outreach.
It was during this time that she developed her passion for working with university students and educating social workers.
For her work she was named Higher Education Case Manager of the Year in 2018.
Mrs. Gould has a passion for working with students who are struggling to meet their basic needs.
While working at the University of Kentucky she assisted in starting the campus student food pantry and served as board chair.
Additionally Mrs. Gould served in leadership as the membership chair for the Kentucky Society for Clinical Social Workers, board member of the University of Kentucky's Women's Forum, and has been serving for three years on the Site Base Decision-Making Counsel for her local elementary school.
Seeing the need for her DSW cohort to connect interpersonally she worked to develop a student organization to build relationships and networking opportunities for fellow DSW students and served as the president of this organization.
Her interests in research and making change in social work education include student retention in the online learning platform, meeting the psychosocial and belonging needs of online students and student issues including prevention of crisis and adjustment to college, vicarious trauma in helping professionals, and housing and food insecurity among students.