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Hamilton College President Eugene Tobin and Oneida County Executive Ralph Eannace today announced the appointment of Judith Owens-Manley as research coordinator of the Oneida County Human Services Resource Center.

Tobin said the Resource Center showcases the tangible benefits that take place when higher education and county local government cooperate to solve local problems. "Our students have benefited by applying classroom concepts to real-world problems. The Resource Center is a wonderful way for Hamilton to demonstrate its commitment to the community by being a good citizen." Tobin added, "I am delighted to see the goals of the initial Human Services Board come to fruition today with the appointment of Judith Owens-Manley as our research coordinator." The Human Services Board, established five years ago by then-County Executive Raymond A. Meier, evaluates human service delivery in Oneida County and makes policy recommendations to the county executive. At that time of its creation, the board was chaired by Eannace, an area attorney.

"We have worked together over the past five years to better coordinate the delivery of human services and to better assess the needs of our community," Eannace said. "I rededicate the county's commitment to the Oneida County Resource Center, located at the Levitt Center of Hamilton College, and to the mission of the Funder's Council, and today, I welcome Judith Owens-Manley to our team."

Owens-Manley is a graduate of the School of Social Welfare at the State University of New York at Albany, where she studied social work practice focusing on women and families, human behavior and the social environment. She has been a unit coordinator at Empire State College since 1995, participating in individual and group instruction in human services/psychology courses, and mentoring for program development and educational planning.

Her research has included examining service delivery in public welfare agencies, the ethnographic study of top administrators in a public welfare agency during welfare reform, and focus groups with front-line workers in public welfare agencies regarding welfare reform and domestic violence.

In addition to her research on public welfare, Owens-Manley has extensive clinical experience. She has worked at Family Services of Greater Utica, where she managed counseling programs to divert youth from residential placement in youth detention facilities, and at the YWCA Hall House, where she provided group therapy for battered women. She has had a private psychotherapy practice since 1990.

The Oneida County Human Services Resource Center, based at the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center on the Hamilton campus, is a collaboration between the Oneida County Human Services Funders Council and Hamilton College. The Funders Council is a committee of county officials, both governmental and private, who are representatives of various agencies that provide funding to evaluate the delivery of human services in Oneida County. The Resource Center provides the Funders Council with timely, high quality research on public issues and offers students the opportunity to extend their academic education through applied learning and research.

The Resource Center meets these goals by arranging cooperative research projects with Oneida County residents, faculty and students at Hamilton, and other postsecondary institutions. The Center also examines the distribution of area resources to help funders and providers develop a more proactive role in dealing with community human service issues and needs in Oneida County.

Owens-Manley replaces Kim Torres, a 1997 graduate of Hamilton College who served as research coordinator of the Resource Center for the 1997-98 academic year.

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