EMILY BLEYL

Ms. Bleyl began her social work career as a case manager for Catholic Community Services in 1995. In 1999 she earned a MSW degree from the University of Utah, after which she spent 14 months in-residence at the Yale Child Study Center in intensive post-graduate fellowship training, where she maintained a client load and received daily didactic instruction and supervision. Two months into her tenure at Yale, she was selected for a concurrent Bush Fellowship at the Yale Ziegler Center for Child Development and Social Policy (formerly the Yale Bush Center), where she conducted research and consulted on policy issues. After the fellowships, she directed public policy and community initiatives for the United Way of Tucson and southern Arizona. In her almost three-year tenure at the United Way, she co-led a small team that developed a successful initiative that continues to benefit young children and families throughout southern Arizona. She returned to Utah in 2003 and worked as a private practitioner in a multi-disciplinary group practice, and as a crisis social worker in the emergency department at the University of Utah Medical Center. Currently, Ms. Bleyl is the director of MSW field education at the University of Utah. In this position, she works with diverse identities, teaches, coordinates and manages student field placements, provides oversight and support to field faculty and staff, networks and curates field placements, develops and enforces field-related policies, consults and intervenes when student and/or agency concerns arise, and works diligently to enhance the overall system in which field education is administered. Many of the skills required for successful field leadership were fine-tuned during her tenure as Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers, Utah Chapter. In this position she managed daily operations including budgets, meetings, boards, conferences, and continuing education. She also routinely worked with the Utah Legislature and DOPL, social work's regulatory board, to strengthen and draft social work rules and statutes; and consulted with state agencies and social workers on ethics and practice-related issues. Her work with NASW culminated in national recognition as the NASW Outstanding Executive Director of the Year (2013), and local recognition as one of Utah's Thirty Women to Watch (2014). In 2012, Ms. Bleyl was named the Utah Social Worker of the Year,and in 2013 was selected by MSW students for the Practicum Faculty of the Year award.