Christine Egizi

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Christine is a licensed clinical social worker with more than a decade of experience in behavioral health, clinical practice, and nonprofit leadership. She previously served as the Senior Director of Atlantic Homeless Alliance and Justice Involved Services at Jewish Family Service, where she oversaw homeless services—including Atlantic County’s Coordinated Entry system—justice-involved programming, a mental health and substance use co-response partnership with the Atlantic City Police Department, and the agency’s social-service partnership with Central Municipal Court. Christine also developed and chaired the agency’s High-Risk Case Review Committee and provided clinical supervision to professionals pursuing licensure. Additionally, she has experience as an outpatient therapist providing trauma-focused services to children and adolescents. Her nonprofit leadership was recognized in 2018 when she was selected as a Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Emerging Leader. Christine serves on the Stockton University Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Advisory Board. She is an adjunct instructor at Stockton University and Bryn Mawr College. Christine earned her Master of Social Work and Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Stockton University.

Her research interests center on institutional cycling among individuals with serious mental illness who experience homelessness, particularly the ways police contact and criminalization shape movement across shelters, hospitals, jails, and housing systems. She is also interested in psychologically informed environments as relational and organizational approaches to supporting individuals experiencing homelessness who have histories of trauma and complex mental health needs.

Research and Scholarly Interests

  • Serious mental illness, homelessness, and housing instability
  • Police contact and the criminalization of individuals with serious mental illness
  • Psychologically informed environments
  • Trauma-informed and relational approaches to social work practice
  • Structural barriers within behavioral health, housing, and criminal-legal systems
  • Institutional cycling across housing, behavioral health, and criminal-legal systems