Professional Publications and Presentations

This page con­tains some bare bones infor­ma­tion on my pro­fes­sional prepa­ra­tion, pub­li­ca­tions and pre­sen­ta­tions. I am in the process of updat­ing it to reflect my cur­rent work.

Clarissa (Barin) Shack­elford, MSW

Pro­fes­sional Preparation:

1999 Uni­ver­sity of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
M.S.W. — Social Work (advanced stand­ing)
Con­cen­tra­tion in Com­mu­ni­ties and Organizations

1998 Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC
B.S.W., Social Work Gen­er­al­ist Practice

Pub­li­ca­tions Relat­ing to Social Work

Barin, C. (2003, Feb­ru­ary) Reach­ing for the head start PRISE. Work­shop on method of eval­u­a­tion con­ducted at the Region IV con­fer­ence. Greens­boro, NC

Sloop, S. Barin, C. & Brooks, T. (2003, Jan­u­ary) Mea­sur­ing Fam­ily Sup­port: Best Prac­tices, Chal­lenges and Results. Pre­sen­ta­tion made at the 2003 National Smart Start Con­fer­ence, Greens­boro, NC

Barin, C (2002, Sep­tem­ber). Focus on self-assessment and con­tin­u­ous improve­ment in early head start. (3 work­shops con­ducted for Early Head Start staff in the South East Hub) Funded by the Admin­is­tra­tion of Chil­dren and Fam­i­lies, Macon, GA; Greens­boro, NC; Tal­la­has­see, FL.

Barin, C., & Vogler, B. (2000, Novem­ber). Social work in a sys­tem of care. Pre­sen­ta­tion made at the NASW-NC State Con­fer­ence, Char­lotte, NC.

Honess, K., Barin, C. & LoCas­tro, S. (2000, April). Ser­vice gaps, sup­port sys­tems and the sys­tem of care: An analy­sis of flex­i­ble fund expen­di­tures. Pre­sen­ta­tion made at the Build­ing on Fam­ily Strengths National Con­fer­ence, Port­land, OR.

Barin, C. (1999, Octo­ber). Effec­tive col­lab­o­ra­tion prac­tices. Pre­sen­ta­tion made at the Cen­ter for Ser­vice Learn­ing, Emory and Henry Col­lege, Emory, VA.

Barin, C. (1999, August). Intro­duc­tion to grant writ­ing. Work­shop (mul­ti­ple classes)  for Cen­ter for Ser­vice Learn­ing, Mars Hill Col­lege, Mars Hill, NC.

Barin, C. (1999, July) Fund­ing Request for Chap­lain. Grant.  Com­mu­nity Foun­da­tion of West­ern North Car­olina, for Black Moun­tain Cor­rec­tional Cen­ter for Women.  Funded 7/99

Lohr, K, Barin, C. Honess, K. (1999, Feb­ru­ary)“Mul­ti­di­men­sional Treat­ment Fos­ter Care Pro­gram Grant.” Multi-year grant, Governor’s Crime Com­mis­sion, NC. Funded 7/99

Barin, C. (1998, Sep­tem­ber). The “how to’s” of pub­lic speak­ing. Pre­sen­ta­tion on the Alexan­der Method made to stu­dents and fac­ulty at the Uni­ver­sity of South Car­olina, Columbia.

Plaut, T., Barin, C., & Payne, A. (1998). Com­mu­nity Ori­ented Map­ping for Enhanced Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions (COMET) fed­eral grant eval­u­a­tion [Eval­u­a­tion man­ual]. Mars Hill, NC: Mars Hill College.

Barin, C. “Lit­er­acy Project: Read Me a Story Pro­gram.” Grant. Bon­ner Com­mu­nity Grant, Fam­ily Lit­er­acy Project, Black Moun­tain Cor­rec­tional Cen­ter for Women.  Funded 7/97

Barin, C. (1/97)“Liter­acy Project: Phi­los­o­phy Cir­cle.” Grant. Bon­ner Com­mu­nity Grant, Lit­er­acy Project, Black Moun­tain Cor­rec­tional Cen­ter for Women.  Funded 4/97

Barin, C. (1997, Jan­u­ary). Jour­nal­ing as stress relief for MS patients. Pre­sen­ta­tion made to Mul­ti­ple Scle­ro­sis Foun­da­tion Sup­port Group in West­ern North Car­olina, Asheville.