Elliott R. Hill, LCSW-BACS, ACSW, BCD has been a clinical social worker for 14 years and has a diverse clinical background. Mr. Hill has been in full-time private practice with children and adults. He was a school-based therapist for Vanderbilt University Medical Center and has worked as a therapist for several state funded mental health centers and addictions clinics in LA and TN. He was employed as therapist and the director for social services for Community Care Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Hospital. Mr. Hill worked as therapist for New Directions, a residential treatment center for adolescent sexual offenders in LA. He has been a consultant to a methadone clinic, a HIV/AIDS program and a home agency. Mr. Hill′s other experience includes: clinical supervision for social workers; child custody evaluations, court ordered parenting and anger management groups, and substance abuse prevention, and employee assistance counseling.

Mr. Hill is a native of New Orleans, LA and returned thier after hurricanes Katrina and Rita where he worked for three months with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) on the Katrina Assistance Project. As the team coordinator he: provided a “cultural orientation” for each of the six SAMHSA multidisciplinary teams; collaborated with mental health agencies to support the 9th Ward′s “Look and Leave” program; and was the co-developer of a Wellness Center for professionals who worked within the Emergency Operations Center of the City of New Orleans.

Currently Mr. Hill is working as an independent consultant and has a part-time private practice. His current consulting projects include: developing a post Katrina community outreach and recovery plan and for the Metropolitan Human Services District (state supported behavioral health organization in New Orleans); consultant/group facilitator for the Louisiana Office of Addictive Disorder′s focus group project resulting in an unpublished report “Children of the Storm: A Dialogue with Children, Parents, and School Staff about the Impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on their Lives and Public Institutions”; and a consultant for Johnson, Basin and Shaw, Inc. on their work on the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment Strategic Prevention Framework State Initiative Grant.

He is a member of the following organizations: American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress; American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work; Academy of Certified Social Workers through the National Association of Social Workers; and a Board Approved Clinical Approved Supervisor for LCSW licensure in LA. He serves on the Board of Directors for All Healers Mental Health Alliance, a group formed to provide a long term response to the mental health needs of people affected by the Gulf Coast Hurricanes. Mr. Hill received his Bachelors of Social Work from Southeastern Louisiana University and his Masters of Social Work with a concentration in child welfare from the University of Southern Mississippi. He licensed as a clinical social worker in Louisiana and Georgia. Mr. Hill can be contacted at ehill06@bellsouth.net .