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Campus Enrichment Lecture Series: Minds in Motion Understanding Mental Health Featuring Dr. Tyffani Monford
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Dr. Tyffani Monford is a licensed psychologist and Director of Clinical Services for MetroHealth’s Behavioral Health Hospital. She is also an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University.
University School of Medicine-Department of Psychiatry.
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Tyffani Monford
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
Metro Health and Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Tyffani Monford is a licensed psychologist and Director of Clinical Services for MetroHealth’s Behavioral Health Hospital. She is also an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine-Department of Psychiatry. Within the MetroHealth system, Dr. Monford provides short-term therapy to adults within the inpatient psychiatric hospital, engages in community outreach related to mental health education and eradicating stigma. In addition, she focuses on eliminating mental health stigma and increasing access to culturally informed clinical services for historically excluded communities. Dr. Monford’s primary areas of interests are sexual violence prevention and intervention on the continuum, the role of intersectionality in the lives of Black and Brown girls/women, racial trauma and radical healing, social justice work within the mental health profession, and culturally informed therapy practices with a focus on decolonizing psychology.
Dr. Monford has been featured on local and national news programs and within national magazines including Psychology Today and The Atlantic addressing the importance of emotional wellness in Black communities, child/adolescent mental health, mental health in times of national crisis, and the school-to-prison pipeline’s impact on Black Girls. She has provided mental health trainings and served as a panelist at conferences throughout the United States focused on culturally informed mental health services, gender-responsive treatment, the school-to-prison pipeline and Black girls, educating Black girls in white spaces, intersectionality, and social justice work. Dr. Monford has served on several state, national, and international boards addressing issues of mental health, sexual violence prevention and intervention and human trafficking. Dr. Monford has facilitated trainings and workshops related to systemic change work for social justice organizations, universities, and sexual violence organizations.
In 2025, she was recognized as a Gail-Burns-Smith Award Winner by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse for her influential work on the continuum of sexual violence intervention and prevention. She is a former recipient of the Visionary Voice Award by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center as well as being deemed a Radical Truthteller by the Truth Telling Project in Ferguson, Missouri. In addition, she has been named “Who’s Who in Black Cleveland” twice, as well as being named an Alumnus of The Year at Wilberforce University.
Dr. Monford is the author of several books, workbooks, and curricula including You Got This! A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up, Reclaiming Me: Beginning My Journey to Overcoming Human Trafficking (free for therapists/agencies working with teen survivors) and Girl, Get Free: An Expressive Guide for Black College Women, as well the co-author of two others: Becoming Who I Want to Be: A Good Lives Workbook for Young Women and its accompanying Counselor’s Edition, both available through Safer Society Press. Through Living at The Intersections, Inc. (LATI) a nonprofit she co-founded with her daughters, she is in the process of piloting the trauma-informed curriculum she co-authored that focuses on the emotional wellness of Black high school girls.
Dr. Monford is a member of the American Psychological Association, the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, the ACLU, NAACP, National Organization for Women, Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, and several other organizations focused on mental health and social justice/advocacy work. She is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and has held several leadership positions in the organization, including a prior appointment to its National Program Planning & Development Committee-Physical & Mental Health Subcommittee.
Dr. Monford is a proud alumnus of Wilberforce University where she received her undergraduate degree in psychology and Wright State University where she completed her doctoral studies. She is the mother of two amazing humans, Mia and Zoe.
Dr. Monford has been featured on local and national news programs and within national magazines including Psychology Today and The Atlantic addressing the importance of emotional wellness in Black communities, child/adolescent mental health, mental health in times of national crisis, and the school-to-prison pipeline’s impact on Black Girls. She has provided mental health trainings and served as a panelist at conferences throughout the United States focused on culturally informed mental health services, gender-responsive treatment, the school-to-prison pipeline and Black girls, educating Black girls in white spaces, intersectionality, and social justice work. Dr. Monford has served on several state, national, and international boards addressing issues of mental health, sexual violence prevention and intervention and human trafficking. Dr. Monford has facilitated trainings and workshops related to systemic change work for social justice organizations, universities, and sexual violence organizations.
In 2025, she was recognized as a Gail-Burns-Smith Award Winner by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse for her influential work on the continuum of sexual violence intervention and prevention. She is a former recipient of the Visionary Voice Award by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center as well as being deemed a Radical Truthteller by the Truth Telling Project in Ferguson, Missouri. In addition, she has been named “Who’s Who in Black Cleveland” twice, as well as being named an Alumnus of The Year at Wilberforce University.
Dr. Monford is the author of several books, workbooks, and curricula including You Got This! A Girl’s Guide to Growing Up, Reclaiming Me: Beginning My Journey to Overcoming Human Trafficking (free for therapists/agencies working with teen survivors) and Girl, Get Free: An Expressive Guide for Black College Women, as well the co-author of two others: Becoming Who I Want to Be: A Good Lives Workbook for Young Women and its accompanying Counselor’s Edition, both available through Safer Society Press. Through Living at The Intersections, Inc. (LATI) a nonprofit she co-founded with her daughters, she is in the process of piloting the trauma-informed curriculum she co-authored that focuses on the emotional wellness of Black high school girls.
Dr. Monford is a member of the American Psychological Association, the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, the ACLU, NAACP, National Organization for Women, Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, and several other organizations focused on mental health and social justice/advocacy work. She is also a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and has held several leadership positions in the organization, including a prior appointment to its National Program Planning & Development Committee-Physical & Mental Health Subcommittee.
Dr. Monford is a proud alumnus of Wilberforce University where she received her undergraduate degree in psychology and Wright State University where she completed her doctoral studies. She is the mother of two amazing humans, Mia and Zoe.
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