About the Life Crisis Center

Dr. Lee Ann Hoff

The Life Crisis Institute was founded by Dr. Lee Ann Hoff in 1986 in Boston to promote and conduct education, training and research on crisis, psychosocial health and related topics. Through consultation, workshops and formal courses, the Institute provides a timely response to the growing need for a coordinated, interdisciplinary approach to education/training, model service delivery to people in crisis, symbol explanation and relevant research. In particular, it focuses on crisis, trauma and psychological issues in a framework that situates personal life crises in a sociocultural context. Institute partners recognize and respond to both the danger and opportunity inherent in life crises.

Institute associates work in a collaborative model. We encourage networking with mental health, emergency medical and community based agencies, as well as educational institutions, government, state and provincial bodies, corporations and individuals concerned with education/training, service delivery and research on life crisis topics.

Lee Ann Hoff, Ph.D., a nurse-anthropologist and crisis specialist, is the founder of the Institute and author of the award-winning People in Crisis; Creating Excellence in Crisis Care (with K. Adamowski); Battered Women As Survivors; Violence Issues: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Guide for Health Professionals; and numerous other publications. She has extensive experience as an educator, consultant, clinician and crisis service manager.

Kazimiera Adamowksi, MSW, a highly experienced clinician, manager, trainer and consultant, has developed original crisis protocols and programs for emergency medical and other health professionals and consults with community groups as well as provincial and federal government departments. She is the author, along with Lee Ann Hoff, of Creating Excellence in Crisis Care; Sudden Unexpected Death in the Emergency Department: Caring for the Survivors; and Social Work in the Emergency Department: An Invaluable Resource.

Carey Gordon, a life-long advocate for global women's rights issues, holds a master's degree in leadership management. Her experience includes advocacy in a transitional shelter for abused women and planning around community housing needs. She was a researcher and a producer of educational materials for the Women Building Peace Campaign, sponsored by International Alert, London, United Kingdom.

We welcome collaboration in our programs according to interests and expertise in clinical practice, training, and/or research on crisis and related topics.

If you would like to discuss collaboration on a project, or seek further information on the Life Crisis Institute, please contact Lee Ann Hoff.