You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.
About me
I joined the Office of the Child, Youth and Family Advocate (OCYFA) in June 2023 after working within the Residential Licensing and Special Investigations (RLSI) Unit at the Department for Children and Families’ (DCF) Family Services Division (FSD). My team licensed Residential Treatment Programs (RTP or congregate care facilities), Child Placing Agencies (CPA or private adoption and foster care agencies) and Commissioner-Designated Shelters (CDS or homeless shelters for youth). I was Director of Youth Development at Youth Services (now Interaction) in Brattleboro, VT, and oversaw two youth shelters, and homeless case management services for unhoused youth. She has additional experience reunifying children and families, finalizing adoptions, creating foster care crisis programs, managing ongoing family cases, and working juvenile delinquency petitions in the Philadelphia and Chicago child welfare systems.
Talk to me about innovative child protection & prevention programs, reenvisioning youth justice, reducing the reliance on residential treatment, listening to young people about restraint and seclusion, and reforming statewide regulatory oversight!
