About

She was also the recipient of the Minority Access to Research Careers and the Minority Biological Research Scholarships.  McClerklin-Motley earned her MSW from the University of South Carolina, where she received a USC Minority Fellowship.  She attended Capella University where she received a Ph.D. in Human Services with a Concentration in Social and Community Services.

 

She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, a past member of the Council on Social Work Education, and a past member of the National Association of Christian Social Workers.  McClerklin Motley is a retired tenured professor of Social Work and served as the Chair of the Social Work Department at Coker University (formerly Coker College)  in Hartsville, South Carolina from 2011-2015. When the college restructured the department, placing it under the Behavioral Sciences Department as a program, she became the social work program coordinator.  During her tenure at Coker, she helped write and wrote curriculum including the Human Behavior in the Social Environment (HBSE) courses, the Research and Advanced Research course, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) course for undergraduate social work students, the Social Work Ethics course, and the Person in Environment (PIE) course.  She was named Master Professor 2007-2008, one of the top five professors in 2014, and Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers for 2004-2005, 2006-2007, 2008-2009, 2009-2010. She has served on Coker College’s Compensation Committee, the Curriculum Committee, the Honor’s Committee, as well as a host of other committees.  She was the Founder and President of the West Metro Youth Leadership Institute, founder of the Julius Felder Coalition for Change, founder of the Cayce Community Coalition, founder of the Teen Spirit Talk Show and founder of Cayce for Obama 2008.

 

McClerklin Motley has experience as  a Certified Site Team Visitor for Colleges and Universities by the Council on Social Work Education, a past member of the Council on Social Work Education’s Women’s Council, a past member of the South Carolina National Association’s Committee on Nominations and Leadership Identification, a member of the Advocates Against Human Trafficking, as well as a Parent-Child Mediator, Certified Civil Mediator, Certified Juvenile Arbitrator, Certified Grants Writer, Certified African American HIV/AIDS Educator, and a former Certified Senior Prevention Professional. 

 

In 2014 she had the honor of being one of only two persons from South Carolina invited to the White House to participate in a Hearing on the Affordable Care Act. She served on the Board of the Hartsville Boys and Girls Clubs, and she has worked closely with the Hartsville First Steps Program and the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program.  She conducted a presentation on the White House hearing findings at the 2014 Council on Social Work Education’s National Annual Program Meeting.  She also organized and held the first statewide conference on human trafficking at Coker College. During her  tenure at Coker she wrote a course on International Social Work and was part of the team of social workers combined of Coker College and the University of South Carolina to organize a Study Abroad trip in London, England. She also organized a Study Abroad Trip for Social Workers who received a concentration in a Spanish for Social Workers course. While there, she guest lectured at Choc Mool University, and participated in social work services in Mexico’s social services organization in 2008.

 

She has guest lectured at Furman University, Georgia State University, University of Georgia, the W. L. Bonner College, SC State University, Gettysburg College, the University of South Carolina, and Midlands Technical College.  She has presented at numerous local and national conferences in such areas as HIV/AIDS, Domestic Violence, African Americans and Nicotine, Parenting the Hip Hop Generation, Rap music, juvenile delinquency, etc. She has provided technical assistance to the National Institute of Minority Health in the areas of tobacco prevention in African American communities and HIV/AIDS among African American Adolescents. 

 

McClerklin-Motley compiled and edited the “Facing HIV/AIDS” training manual for the South Carolina Department of Social Services, the “African American HIV/AIDS Training Manual” for the South Carolina Coalition of Black Church Leaders, and “Domestic Violence:  What is the role of the church?,” a training manual for pastors and others involved in ministering to battered and abused women.

 

McClerklin-Motley has received numerous honors and awards, including but not limited to,  Cayce/West Columbia NAACP’s Outstanding Community Service Award, a Proclamation for her outstanding community service from the Mayor of Columbia and the Mayor of West Columbia; an award for HIV/AIDS presentations from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Association, the South Carolina Drug School, and the Southeastern Drug School; Outstanding Community Service Awards from Radio Station 95.3, the CUSH Foundation, and a host of others.

 

Her research interests include women and children, and as such her quantitative dissertation research was in the domestic trafficking of minors. In 2019, she received a research grant from the Mellon Foundation to replicate this research in the State of North Carolina.