Bio:

Dr Mandiberg has seventeen years experience as a manager in human service organizations, principally in mental health. This included 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 enterprises - business and 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:

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

Current Projects:

• The development of social enterprise in Japan in light of the new nonprofit organization law (Abe Fellowship Research).
• A cross-national study of autonomously organized homeless encampments in most developed nations (Sites studied: U.S. - Portland, Oregon; Canada - Toronto; & Japan - Osaka/Kamagasaki).
• Two social movement studies:
  • Anti-authoritarian social service providers
  • Anti Social Work Social Movements: A study of the anti child protective services movement and the anti PACT movement.
• The development of social service client owned businesses.
• Organizational strategy in the implementation of W-2 welfare reform in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Recent Publications & Presentations:


Journal Articles
Mandiberg, J.M. & Tucker, D.J. (accepted for publication: Journal of Sociology and Social Work). Organizational change and technology transfer in mental health organizations: A framework for analysis.

Mowbray, C., Megivern, D., Mandiberg, J.M., Strauss, S., Stein, S., Collins, K., Curlin, C., Kopels, S. (accepted for publication: American Journal of Orthopsychiatry). Campus mental health services: Recommendations for change

Warner, R. and Mandiberg, J.M. (2003). Changing the environment of schizophrenia at the community level, Australasian Psychiatry, Vol. 11, supplement.

Mandiberg, J.M. (Editor). (2000). Social Work. Boulder: Coursewise Publishing, Inc.

Mandiberg, J,M. (1999). The sword of reform has two sharp edges: normalcy, normalization, and the destruction of the social group. New Directions for Mental Health Services, number 83, 31-44.

Mandiberg, J. M. (1996) The Japanese mental health system and law: social and structural impediments to reform. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 19 (3-4), 1-23.

Mandiberg, J. M., Kobayashi, N. & Kimura, T. (1996). Self-help and mutual aid among former psychiatric patients in Japan. Breakthrough, 1(1).

Mandiberg, J. M. (1995). Can interdependent mutual support function as an alternative to hospitalization? In R. Warner (Ed.), Alternatives to Hospitalization for Acute Psychiatric Care, Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

Mandiberg, J.M. & Miyaoka, K. (1994). Using PIE to teach social work skills in Japan. In J. M. Karls and K.E. Wandrei (Eds.), The Person-In-Environment System, Washington, D.C.: National Association of Social Workers Press.

Mandiberg, J. M. (1993). Between a rock and a hard place: the mental health system in Japan. New Directions for Mental Health Services, number 60.

Mandiberg, J. M. (Guest Editor). (1993). New Directions for Mental Health Services: Innovations in Japanese Mental Health Services, number 60.

Presentations
Mandiberg, J.M. & Choi, Y.S. (November 2003). Relative Competitive Advantage Between Nonprofit and For-profit TANF agencies in Milwaukee. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA), Denver, CO.

Mandiberg, J.M. & Sakamoto, I. (November 2003). Self-organization of Encampments by People Who Are Homeless: A Three Country Comparison. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA), Denver, CO.

Mandiberg, J.M. (November 2002). Branding in Human Services: Strategies and Cases. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations (ARNOVA), Toronto, Canada.

Mandiberg, J.M. (July 2002). An Organizational Taxonomy for Community-Based Mental Health Programs. Second Clubhouse Research Conference, Worcester, MA.

Mandiberg, J.M. (January 2002). Some Preliminary Findings in the Organizational Assessment of Milwaukee's W-2 Project. State of Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Management and Evaluation Project (MEP), Madison, WI.

Mandiberg, J.M. (December 2001). Extending the Period of Support: What Works and Why. Japan Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture.

Mandiberg, J.M. (December 2001). How the Lack of "Social Space" prevents the Deinstitutionalization of Japanese Psychiatric Patients: Creating Community Infrastructure. Japan Association of Psychiatric Social Workers, Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture.

Mandiberg, J.M. (November 2001). Survival and Growth Strategies of a For-Profit Welfare Organization in a Public and Nonprofit Institutional Environment. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations -ARNOVA, Miami, FL.

Mandiberg, J.M. (November 2001). Nonprofit Business Incubation of For-Profit businesses Owned by People with Histories of Mental Illness. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Associations -ARNOVA, Miami, FL.

Mandiberg, J.M. (January 2001). The Sequencing of Human Services Innovations: A Natural or a Strategic Process? Society for Social Work and Research, Atlanta, GA.

Last updated December 03, 2007.