Bio:

Dr. Mandiberg has seventeen years experience as a manager in human service organizations, principally in mental health. This includes positions as Intake Director, Clinical Director and Executive Director in several nonprofit organizations in New York and California, Senior Program Administrator in the San Francisco Housing Authority, and Community Support and Community Mental Health Services Director in Santa Clara County, California. He has taught social work at Shikoku Gakuin University in Japan, organizational psychology and social work at the University of Michigan, and social work administration at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His practice experience includes consultation to nonprofit and public agencies in the U.S. and Japan in program and system design, innovation and its diffusion, and strategic management. His work also includes the development of social enterprise businesses - surplus-generating activity by nonprofit organizations to advance their social missions. Dr. Mandiberg is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California and a Certified Social Work Manager.

Research Interests:

• The social and economic development of social service client communities
• Innovation and its diffusion, including transnationally
• Social entrepreneurship, social enterprise and hybrid/cross sector organizations
• Social movements in human services
• Organizational strategy and organizational theory
• Program and system design, especially in mental health services
• Comparative human service systems and programs, especially Japan
• Nonprofit organizations

Current Projects:

• Civil society participation among people with mental health conditions.
• Development of a state-wide credit union for people with histories as consumers of mental health services.
• Development of economic and business infrastructure in communities of social service clients.
• Social service client populations as base of the pyramid (BoP) markets/consumers.
• Research on peer providers in mental health.
• The adaptation of community development models to mental health consumer communities internationally.
• Autonomously organized development among highly stigmatized low income and disabled communities.
• The development of social service client owned businesses.

Selected Publications & Presentations:


Journal Articles
Mandiberg, J. M. & Warner, R. (in press).  The importance of client community in the design of psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation programs. NOOS.

Gates, L. B., Mandiberg, J. M., & Akabas, S. H. (in press).  Building capacity in social service agencies to employ peer providers.  Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.

Mandiberg, J. M. & Warner, R. (2011). The value of mutual support through client community in the design of psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation programs. In A. Azzopardi & S. Grech (Eds.), Inclusive Communities: A Reader. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

Herman, D. & Mandiberg, J. M. (2010). Critical time intervention: Description and implications for timing in social work interventions. Research on Social Work Practice, 20(5), 502-508.

Mandiberg, J. M. & Warner, R. (2009). Questioni di specificità negli interventi di salute mentale: flessibilità del progetto in due modelli americani (English: Specificity issues in mental health interventions: Design resilience in two American models).  NOOS, 15(3), 239-256.

Warner, R. and Mandiberg, J. M. (2006). An update on affirmative businesses or social firms for people with mental illness. Psychiatric Services, 57, 1488-1492.

Mowbray, C., Megivern, D., Mandiberg, J. M., Strauss, S., et. al. (2006).  Campus mental health services: Recommendations for change. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76, 226-237.

Presentations
Mandiberg, J. M. & Warner, R. (2010, July). Developing Business Infrastructure in Very Low Income Communities of People with Severe Mental Illness Histories: The Example of Mental Health Pharmacies.  Presented at the Subsistence Marketplace Conference, Chicago, IL.

Mandiberg, J. M. (2009, November). The Origin of Organization in Autonomously Organized Homeless Camps.  Presented at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), Cleveland, OH.

Last updated September 14, 2010.