Phone: 907-796-6213
Fax: 907-796-6406
Email: ffhlb@uaf.edu

Mailing address:

UAS Social Work
Hendrickson Annex, RM 105
11120 Glacier Highway
Juneau, AK 99801

Heidi Brocious, MSW, is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the statewide distance delivery BSW program based at the UAS campus in Juneau. Heidi has been working in the fields of childhood mental health, reactive attachment disorder, and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in different settings in both Alaska and Montana over the last decade. Heidi has worked with communities throughout Alaska on FASD related issues including diagnosis and prevention, and co-authored the FASD 101 and FASD 201 curriculum currently used by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services. Heidi is committed to child welfare issues both on an national and international level. She and her husband Todd are also licensed foster parents for the state of Alaska, and recently adopted their daughter Molly from Guanzhou, China.

phone: 907-474-6513
Fax: 907-474-6085
Email: fnlsh@uaf.edu

Mailing address:

UAF Dept. of Social Work
P.O. Box 756480
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6480

Laurie Hildenbrand, LMSW, is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Laurie began working in the social work field in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1987 following receipt of her BA in Social Work from UAF where she was awarded the Outstanding Social Work Student of the Year as well as the Gray S. Tilly Memorial Award.  Laurie has worked in a women’s center, in an early childhood education program, been a parenting educator, provided counseling and support to single parents and displaced homemakers returning to higher education and the workforce, as well as worked as an investigator for the Division of Family & Youth Services.  She completed a Master’s Degree at Eastern Washington University and completed other graduate study in Guidance and Counseling.  Prior to her faculty position, Laurie held a staff position in the social work department as the Title IV-e coordinator and Intern Supervisor at the Office of Children’s Services in Fairbanks and was an adjunct instructor.  Originally from New York, Laurie has lived in the Fairbanks area for over 31 years.  Between them, she and her husband have three grown children and two adorable grandchildren.

Phone: 907-474-7025
Fax: 907-474-6085
Email: ffcls4@uaf.edu

Mailing address:

UAF Dept. of Social Work
P.O. Box 756480
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6480

Layne Smith, MSW, is a Clinical Assistant Professor for the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Layne began working in Children’s Protective Services in 1975, and has worked in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children as a child care worker, center director, individual, family, and group therapist, supervisor, director of social services, and chair of the professional staff. He received his MSW from the University of South Florida in 1985, and has done other graduate study in sociology, counseling, and marriage and family therapy.  Prior to coming to UAF, Layne served on faculty at Fort Hays State University in Kansas, and at Missouri State University. He is interested in the intersection of family, development, and culture, and the ways in which these factors impact the problems clients face and the strengths clients bring to their solution. Layne is also an Episcopal priest. His wife Casey is a clinical social worker.

Phone: 907-474-6267
Fax: 907-474-6085
Email: fflmd1@uaf.edu

Mailing address:

UAF Dept. of Social Work
P.O. Box 756480
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6480

LaVerne Demientieff, MSW, is a Clinical Assistant Professor for UAF's Bacholor of Social Work program. LaVerne is a Deg' Hitan, Athabascan and her family is from Holy Cross, Alaska. She grew up in Nenana, Fairbanks, Anchorage and at her family's fishcamp on the Yukon river. She has a teenage son named Khayree. LaVerne received her MSW from Washington University in St. Louis, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, with a concentration in social and economic development with an emphasis in management. She received her BSW from UAF's Social Work Department. She also holds an AAS in Early Childhood Education. LaVerne teaches Introduction to Social Work, Rural Social Work, Human Behavior in the Social Environment I and II, and Research Methods and hopes to provide a good foundation for students to build upon, as well as relay her passion and enthusiasm for all of the possiblities that the field has to offer. LaVerne is currently working towards a PhD is Social Work from the University of Utah, College of Social Work in their Technology Enhanced Doctoral Program and is in the ABD (all but dissertation) phase of the program. In 2004, LaVerne received the Gray S. Tilly Memorial Award from UAF and the Outstanding Social Worker of the Year Award.

Phone: 907-442-3400
Fax: 907-442-2322
Email: zfpjh@uaf.edu

Mailing address:

Chukchi Campus
P.O. Box 297
Kotzebue, AK 99752-0297

Pat Harding, DSW, is Assistant Professor of Social Work based at the UAF Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue. Pat teaches the baccalaureate core social work curriculum for the UAF Social Work program. Pat received her Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Hawaii School of Social Work, where she specialized in social group work and community organization. In 1996 Pat received her Doctorate of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Her integrated course of study included regional culture, social policy, and welfare law. Her interests include program development in assisting communities to create nurturing environments and opportunities for their children and families. A longtime resident of Kotzebue, Pat lives with her husband, Greg, and son, Joseph, along with the family's two dogs.

Phone:  (907) 455-2041
Fax:  (907) 474-2712
Email:  ffjcb1@uaf.edu

Mailing address:

UAF Dept. of Social Work
P.O. Box 756480
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6480

Jessica Black, MSW, is a Gwich’in Athabascan from the villages of Fort Yukon and Nenana, Alaska.  She grew-up in rural Alaska until the age of 18 when she moved to New London, Connecticut to attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy for two years.  She then returned to Fairbanks, Alaska and obtained her Bachelors in Social Work from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2001.  She worked for a couple of years before attending Washington University in St. Louis where she obtained her Masters in Social Work (MSW) in 2004.  Her masters work centered around “Social and Economic Development and Health Care with Indigenous Populations”.  Jessica currently is the statewide coordinator for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Department of Social Work Cohort.  

Phone: 907-474-7240
Fax: 907-474-6085
Email: fncpr@uaf.edu

Mailing address:

UAF Department of Social Work
P.O. Box 756480
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6480

Carol is currently employed as Administrative Specialist/Program Assessment Coordinator with the Social Work Program. She has been with the department since 1996. Carol is a 1984 graduate of the UAF, with a B.A. in Foreign Languages, minored in Music, and received her Master’s in Education, Special Education from UAA in 2001. She has lived in Fairbanks for 43 years, is married and has three children. In her spare time she enjoys listening to Lynda Randle and the Gaither Vocal Band, singing, playing violin, and basketball.

Phone:  (907) 474-1812
Fax:  (907) 474-2712
Email:  fncli1@uaf.edu

Mailing address:

UAF Dept. of Social Work
P.O. Box 756480
Fairbanks, AK 99775-6480


Carrie is the travel coordinator for the social work rural student cohort.  She received a B.S. degree from UAF in Wildlife Biology in 1997 and has been employed by the University since 2003.  Carrie’s position is part-time, and her office hours are 9:00am to 1:00pm, Monday through Friday.  Carrie took this part-time position with the Department of Social Work in August of 2007 in order to spend more time with her two daughters, Chloe and Ava.   She spends her “spare” time arranging play dates and shuttling the girls to their various activities.