Dorothy Nieto Manzer, MSW, LCSW has held a faculty position since 2014. She is a senior lecturer and teaches in the Virtual Academic Center with a focus on clinical social work practice courses. Manzer brings passion, enthusiasm and expertise to assist the next generation of social workers in cultivating their professional identity and critical decision-making practice skills to provide trauma-informed and culturally relevant services to vulnerable populations and communities.

She has worked for over 25 years in diverse community settings for nonprofit and educational agencies utilizing trauma informed and strength-based practices. She is well versed in program development through the lens of collaborative multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary practices. Manzer has facilitated individual clinical supervision, group supervision, case management team meetings and child and family case consultation meetings with community organizations and child welfare agencies.

Manzer has conducted trainings and presentations on The Trauma Informed Educator, Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences: Building Self-Healing Communities, Strengthening Homeless Youth, Crisis Intervention: Critical Incident Stress Management, TF-CBT, and MATCH-ADTC (Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and Conduct) and Fathering for Family Wellness:  Dad’s For Life. She has served as steering committee member with the Orange County ACEs Trauma Informed Network of Care, Children’s and Families Coalition of Orange County.