Henry Ilian
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Since 1987, Henry Ilian has been involved with research and evaluation (including 12 years as Director of Research and Evaluation) at the New York City Administration for Children¹s Services (ACS), James Satterwhite Academy for Child Welfare Training. ACS is the New York City child welfare agency and the Satterwhite Academy is its training arm. Working with a small staff, and in collaboration with others from the Satterwhite Academy, he has conducted evaluations of training effectiveness and training needs assessments and has developed tests for a variety of courses offered by the Satterwhite Academy. His professional interests include morale and staff retention in social service settings and competencies needed by child welfare workers. Also, since 1991, he has taught research at CUSSW, where he completed his doctoral degree in 1987. His dissertation was a linguistic analysis of psychotherapy discourse.

Prior to entering the doctoral program, he worked as a psychotherapist at the CAM Community Mental Health center on the West Side of Chicago. He holds an M.S.W degree (1978) from George Williams College, now part of Aurora University, Aurora IL. He grew up in New York City and attended the City College of New York, (CCNY), where he majored in art history.