Background
Frank Baskind, Ph.D., is dean emeritus and professor in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University. He served as dean of the School of Social Work (1992-2008) and University ombudsman (2008-2013). Baskind is currently a member of United Way of Greater Richmond Community Building Committee, past member of Connecticut and Tennessee State NASW Board of Directors, and a former president of the Council on Social Work Education. His creation and coordination of Help-Line of Central Connecticut, a crisis intervention and suicide prevention telephone network for a six-town region in Connecticut, launched his career in professional social work practice and education.