Board of Directors

Barbara Silverstone, PhD, LCSW     CHAIR
 Barbara Silverstone is a partner in the social work consulting firm of SBW Partners. Her social work career – largely in the field of aging – has spanned direct practice, teaching, and administration. From 1984 to 2005 she served as President and CEO of Lighthouse International Dr. Silverstone is a former president of the Gerontological Society of America and was awarded the 1988 Outstanding Leadership Award by the American Society on Aging. Among her numerous publications is You and Your Aging Parent co-authored with the late Helen Kandel Hyman and now in 4th edition. An alumna of the Columbia School of Social Work, she was awarded the 2012 Columbia University Alumni Medal.

Phyllis Caroff, PHD, LCSW     TREASURER
 Phyllis Caroff has been Professor Emerita at the CUNY Graduate Center since 1992 to present and Professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work from 1976 to 1989 where she taught casework, multi-method practice, and comparative theories of personality and systems of psychotherapy. She practiced clinically at the Community Service Society from 1956 to 1961 and has practice privately with individuals and family from 1964 to the present.

Elizabeth Alvarado, LCSW
 Elizabeth Alvarado has more than 20 years of clinical practice experience, working with individuals, families and groups. She is the social work manager at VNSNY Hospice Care, providing clinical supervision and mentoring for social work staff in the areas of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. She has taught direct practice with Individuals, families and groups as an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Social Work and currently as an adjunct professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College where she teaches clinical issues in social work practice with the aged. Elizabeth is also a faculty advisor to social work level students enrolled in Boston University School of Social Work MSW Online Program. 

Donna Corrado, PhD, LCSW
 Donna Corrado is the Chief Operating Officer of Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services Inc. (CCNS), an affiliate of Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens, where she oversees the agency’s vast portfolio of human services programs throughout Brooklyn and Queens. Having served at CCNS since 1992, Dr. Corrado provides administrative leadership to programs serving vulnerable populations across the continuum of care in the agency’s five service divisions: behavioral health; early childhood services and Head Start; developmental disabilities; family & youth services and older adult services. In addition to her extensive clinical experience, she has held leadership positions in a variety of fields, including public policy, government relations, finance and program management. Dr. Corrado actively serves on numerous local and national committees and professional associations. In 2010, she received the Reverend Robert V. Lott Humanitarian Award presented by the Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York City, Inc. and in 2005 she was elected a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Helen Hamlin

Matt Kudish, LMSW
 Matt Kudish is Vice President, Director of Education, Outreach and Caregiver Services at the Alzheimer’s Association, New York City Chapter. He oversees the Chapter’s 24-hour Helpline and Care Consultation programs and is responsible for comprehensive education and training initiatives throughout New York City. Matt is the recipient of the 2012 Beatrice M. Goldberg Community Award by the West Side Inter-Agency Council for the Aging and the 2010 Emerging Social Work Leadership Award by the National Association of Social Workers, NYC Chapter. He is a member of the East Side Council on the Aging, and is a steering committee member of the NYC Elder Abuse Center. 


Susan Matorin, LCSW
 Sue Matorin is a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical School, New York Presbyterian Hospital where she divides her time between direct practice and administrative duties. As a member of the Physician’s Organization her private practice includes individual, marital, and family therapy. Sue began her career in mental health on the Community Psychiatry Service at Psychiatric Institute and was recruited to Weill Cornell to serve as the Director of Social Work and coordinator of student training. She teaches social work with families at the Columbia School of Social Work, and has served on the boards of the Society for Social Work Leaders in Health Care, Metropolitan Chapter; NASW NYC and the Selig Institute for Education at JBFCS.  She has published widely in the areas of family therapy and mental health and can be seen  on the video “Help Starts Here- On any Given Day” produced by the National Association of Social Work.

Christopher Oates, LSSW

Lynn Ohrenstein DSW, LCSW
 Lynn Ohrenstein has been a practitioner, supervisor, and director of a mental health clinic at the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services.  For many years she taught within the Agency’s in-service training program as well as other agencies and conferences.  She also developed a training program focused on practice for Russian students placed within the Agency and published journals on this work.  Dr. Ohrenstein served as a consultant to special populations, and her focus has been on the impact of trauma on adults, children and their families.  Lynn is currently active in a number of professional organizations and continues to maintain a private practice in New York City.

Penny J. Schwartz, DSW, LCSW
 Penny Jeffra Schwartz has had extensive in-patient and outpatient hospital based social work experience and currently is Program Coordinator in the Department of Social Work Services of the Mount Sinai Medical Center where she directs the Resource, Entitlement & Advocacy Program (R.E.A.P.). Penny. Schwartz is a Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine the Division of Behavioral and Social Health and an Adjunct Professor at both the Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College and the Fordham University Graduate School of Social Science. In 2003, she was awarded the Distinguished Service Award for her advocacy efforts on behalf of the elderly, disabled and poor by the Sadin Institute on Law of the Brookdale Center on Healthy Aging and Longevity of Hunter College. Dr. Schwartz served as the First Vice President of the New York City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and is immediate past President of the Columbia University School of Social Work Alumni Association.

In Memorium
 Mildred Mailick, DSW
Florence Lieberman, DSW
Helen Rehr, DSW
Alma T. Young, EdD