Foster Care & Adoption

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Social workers help children at risk find safe homes through foster care and also help create new families through foster care and adoption. Here are our experts on this issue. To arrange interviews or speaking engagements email media@socialworkers.org.

Name State Specific Expertise
Alma J. Carten Pennsylvania Family-Centered Clinical Practice
Yvonne M. Chase Alaska Child Welfare
Silas W. Kelly, LMSW New York Adolescents
Theresa A. Lyons, Esq., MSW New Jersey Family Law
Victor Manalo California Policy Practice
Amy Moncion Florida Counseling
Valente Orozco, LCSW, RPT, PPS California Child Development, Social Environment Behavior
John Richardson-Lauve Virginia Residential Youth Care
Sonja D. Ulrich Washington Child Welfare Case Work
Tara Wallace Kansas Trauma Therapy
Marya Wright, DSW(c) MSW California Forensic Socia Work




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