Frederick Streets

A graduate of Ottawa University (Kansas), Yale University Divinity School and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, he is the author of numerous publications in pastoral theology, spirituality and social work and recipient of many awards. He has over 40 years of distinguished congregational leadership and service to a variety of social service and human rights organizations and boards.

In 2008, Dr. Streets was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, where he taught in the Department of Practical Theology and explored the intersection of religious, social welfare and medical institutional outreach services to those infected and affected by HIV and AIDS. He returned to South Africa in 2010 and 2012 to assess the transition of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa in becoming a multicultural and ethnic institution since the fall of apartheid. He is a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as an adjunct Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Yale Divinity School since 1987 and adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, Columbia University in New York city since 2008, teaching courses regarding the interconnection of social work practice and religion and spirituality. He has also been a visiting faculty member in the Spirituality, Mind Body Institute in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Education, Teachers’ College, Columbia University, and Professor in the Department of Social Work and Latino Community Practice at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, CT.

A licensed clinical social worker, Dr. Streets is the former Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor in Pastoral Counseling at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University in New York City. He was a 2009-2010 Fellow of the Connecticut Health Foundation. He is a member of the founding faculty of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.