Marco Formigoni teaches clinical skill development classes. His research interests are also related to behavioral health. Formigoni is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience in social service settings. He joined the USC faculty in 2012. Prior to USC, he served as director of programs for Renaissance Social Services Inc., where he provided counseling services for behavioral health clients and supervised all clinical staff. His responsibilities also included serving as project director for the agency’s Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration grant, overseeing the annual renewals of five Housing and Urban Development grants, and preparing for required site visits by the City of Chicago Department of Family Support Services and quarterly reporting to the Illinois Department of Human Services.

Formigoni was previously an adoption social worker for eight years, working in both inter-country and domestic adoptions. He was instrumental in the establishment of an agency that provided outreach services to seniors in a rural setting. He has six years of experience in assertive community treatment, including supervision of an ACT team.

He began his career at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Stone Institute of Psychiatry, working between four departments over a six-year period as an inpatient social worker, providing services for mentally ill clients in the Emergency Housing Program, and providing individual therapy in the Outpatient Treatment Center and Crisis Program.