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Dr. Adele Jones is a lecturer in Social Work and Coordinator of postgraduate Social Work Programmes at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad. Her research interests are clustered around children’s rights issues and she has conducted national and international studies into topics such as child protection, young caregivers, residential care, adoption, migration, child-centred research methodologies and the psychosocial implications of HIV/AIDS. She has published extensively on these topics. Her present work focuses on the impact on families of current migration patterns and integrative approaches to HIV/AIDS research and practice.
Jacqueline Padmore B.Sc. (UWI, Mona) MS (Columbia N.Y.) has been in Social Work since 1973, in direct practice in health care in Trinidad, New York and in the U.K. Her responsibilities include coordination and management of the Practicum component of the Social Work programme at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad to include identifying appropriate placement opportunities in the community at public and private agencies and matching students accordingly. She is particularly interested in Social Work Education with a keen focus on Developmental Social Work.
Karene-Anne Nathaniel-deCaires M.SW is an Assistant Lecturer with the Social Work Unit, having joined the department upon completion of her Fulbright Scholarship at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Her direct practice experiences include work with vulnerable youth and the profoundly disabled, and residential social work. She is also a very experienced field instructor and supervisor for Social Work students. Her research interests are in the area of Social Work education and training, namely the learning process through which good students become effective practitioners, in HIV and AIDS practice and in the field of conflict resolution. Mrs Nathaniel-deCaires was the coordinator of the first Phase of the SONDAI project (May-Dec 2006). She supervised the graduate students assigned to the project, and facilitated peer support through which students were able to inegrate their diverse activities. She is also associated with a US State Department sponsored educational partnership grant between the UWI and The University of Denver, Colorado aimed at developing Mediation education and services in Trinidad and Tobago.
Priya Maharaj B.Sc., M.Sc. is currently pursuing her M.Phil. in Developmental Psychology at the University of the West Indies. Her research interests include children’s rights, specifically for children and adolescents living with HIV/ AIDs and those who have been abused physically, sexually and/ or emotionally.
Bernadette Cyrus is a postgraduate student in the Social Work programme at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. She graduated in 2000 with a B.Sc. in Social Work. She is involved in the practice component of the Sondai Project. Her Practicum included provision of psychosocial services to HIV positive women and children. Her research interest is the psychosocial implications of HIV/AIDS.
Khadijah Williams-Peters is currently a postgraduate student at The University of the West Indies, Trinidad pursuing her Masters in Social Work. Her interests include working with and researching issues affecting children and adolescents. At present, she is completing her thesis on adolescent parent communication about sex as this relates to the HIV epidemic. Her advanced practicum in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Sondai project at St. Augustine Campus, UWI has allowed for further research in this area. Her practicum experience has allowed her the opportunity to develop advanced practice skills as well as to contribute to capacity building in the various agencies she practised
Tracie Rogers is an MPhil student who completed a social work practicum in Durban, South Africa focused on Social Work service provision for individuals, families and communities infected/affected by HIV/AIDS. Ms. Rogers’ research interests include psychosocial corollaries of HIV/AIDS, community level manifestations of post-traumatic stress and the use of creative arts therapies as a means of trauma management. | 
