LaVerne Bell-Tolliver
University of Arkansas
United States

LaVerne Bell-Tolliver will be celebrating her 40th year, in 2013, as a masters level clinical social worker. She is currently a Licensed Certified Social Worker in the State of Arkansas, registered play therapist supervisor, and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Throughout the years, LaVerne has worked in the fields of mental health, child protective services, and in private practice primarily in the Dallas, Texas, area. In the latter part of 2004, LaVerne graduated with her PhD in family therapy at Texas Womans University and moved to the Counseling Services of Eastern Arkansas. He is now an associate professor in the UALR School of Social Work.
LaVerne currently serves on three boards: Freedom for Youth, Inc., a non-profit organization of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas dedicated to empowering children, youth, and families; the Arkansas branch of the Association for Play Therapy; and the prison Re-entry board of Directors at the Pine Bluff prison unit. In addition, she is the current president of the Central Arkansas Branch of the National Association of Black Social Workers. Finally, LaVerne has been an active participant in the Chancellors Committee on Race since its inception in 2007 and serves as an Institute Associate of the UALR Institute of Race and Ethnicity.