Rowland A. Hill
Adjunct Associate Professor

Mr. Rowland A. Hill teaches Contemporary Social Problems at CUSSW. He is a 1981 graduate of the N.Y.U. School of Social Work.

Mr. Hill has worked in a variety of settings since obtaining his MSW. He has done medical and psychiatric social work on hospital in-patient units, covering clients with chronic and terminal illnesses as well as those with serious and persistent mental illnesses. For seven years he ran a psychiatric mobile crisis service, providing in-home assessments of persons with emotional and psychiatric problems. He has also run a transitional residential and day treatment unit for homeless men with chronic mental illnesses.

More recently he worked for the N.Y.C.Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), overseeing and providing technical assistance to Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and psychiatric mobile crisis teams. His office at DOHMH was also responsible for organizing disaster mental health response for incidents including suicides, fires, sudden death, building collapses, bank robberies, the N.Y.C. subway bombing, airline crashes and both the '93 and 9/11/2001 World Trade Towers disasters. This past year he ran four Alternative to Incarceration (ATI) programs for homeless mentally ill clients.