Aidan Ferguson currently works as an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She is co-PI on an Illinois state grant whose purpose is to fund CPRS/CRSS training programs to increase the numbers of CPRS/CRSS certified individuals in Illinois. The program is currently on its second cohort of students. She received her BSW, MSW, and PhD from Florida State University. She also received an MS in Geographic Information Science from Florida State University and an MS in Bioethics from Albany Medical College, Alden March Bioethics Institute. Prior to returning for her PhD, she worked in primary care, crisis intervention, and medical social work for the Veterans Administration at an outpatient clinic in Florida, where she worked with CPRS/CRSS trained individuals. Her research interests lie in accurately identifying and understanding nonmonosex populations, research ethics pedagogy and social work research ethics, as well as program development and evaluation.

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Developing a CRSS/CPRS Certification Program: One Social Work Department’s Experience