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Beth Beck |
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Beth Beck has been the Executive Director of The Children’s Service Society of Utah since 2001. She oversees a $2.1 million budget, supervises 30 full-time staff, and conducts community outreach and program development. Her agency provides infant, special needs, and trans-racial adoption services, that include CONNECTIONS: An intermediary search and reunion service for biological family members; KIDS IN CARE that provides emergency childcare assistance for needy families including kinship providers; Clinical Therapy, and GRANDFAMILIES: a support, informational, and advocacy service for kinship care givers and their affected children. |
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Mary Brintnall-Peterson |
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Mary Brintnall-Peterson is a Professor with the University of Wisconsin-Extension and administers programs in the areas of family caregiving and grandparents raising grandchildren. She has developed two national satellite programs and presented at numerous national meetings on the issues and concerns of relative caregivers. Dr. Peterson is a recipient of the AARP Grandparent Award. She has also published and developed Web sites and educational resources for relative caregivers and professionals who work with this emerging family structure. |
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Don Cohon |
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Don Cohon obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1975, completing a dissertation on the topic of establishing intergenerational programs by setting up children’s day care and nursery schools in retirement homes. From 1976 through the 1980s he planned and headed a San Francisco-based project to serve the mental health needs of Southeast Asian refugees. Currently, he is the Director of Edgewood Center for Children and Families’ Institute for the Study of Community-Based Services. He has been at Edgewood since 1993 conducting federal, state, and foundation-funded research projects studying caregivers and children in kinship families. Prior to working at Edgewood, Dr. Cohon was a consultant to San Francisco’s Department of Human Services helping develop a program of specialized medical foster care homes and then directing a seven-year study of medically complex, drug-exposed, HIV positive infants. He has been on the clinical faculty in Pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine since 1982. |
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Sharon Durken |
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Sharon Durken is the Acting Executive Director for Minnesota Kinship Caregivers Association (MKCA). She received her Master of Science degree from Kansas State University in Adult, Occupational, and Continuing Education. Her undergraduate degree is from The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN. As Outreach Director, she recruited and trained host agencies that directly serve the needs of relatives raising children for MKCA’s Grand Kin Project. She is responsible for orientation, communication, and outreach to these host agencies supporting Minnesota’s relative caregivers. Ms. Durken's expertise in collaboration has resulted in an MKCA partnership with Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center to deliver grandparent workshops for Minnesota’s Indian Reservations, an initiative project for grandparents raising children at Boise Forte Reservation, and work on a parenting curriculum for Native parents and grandparents. Ms. Durken was raised by her aunt and uncle in a kinship home. |
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Hilari Hauptman |
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Hilari Hauptman, MSW, has been involved with intergenerational and kinship care programs for the past 24 years. Beginning in the early 1980s, Ms. Hauptman was the founder of Project J.O.Y. - Joining Older and Younger, a multi-faceted intergenerational program dedicated to bringing children and elders together. In 1993, while in Washington State, she began working on kinship care issues. Over the years, she has been involved with a variety of related activities including: creating videos, resource directories, the WA State RAPP (Relatives as Parents Program) Coalition, a website and a statewide kinship needs survey; state legislative reports; establishing annual kinship care awards, organizing trainings, sponsoring a Native Kinship Care Initiative, and implementing the statewide Kinship Caregivers Support Program. Ms. Hauptman is the Kinship and Family Caregiver Program Manager with Aging and Disability Services Administration/Dept. of Social and Health Services in Olympia, Washington. |
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Rutledge Hutson |
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Rutledge Hutson is the Deputy Director of the Child Welfare and Mental Health Division of the Children’s Defense Fund. Prior to joining CDF in March 2004, Ms. Hutson worked for five years as a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Law and Social Policy. Ms. Hutson has authored publications, made presentations and provided technical assistance on the use of TANF funds for a variety of supportive services for low-income families, including a range of child welfare services. She has also written and spoken about developing comprehensive services for vulnerable children and families by coordinating and integrating a variety of federal funding streams and programs. In addition, Ms Hutson works on reforming financing of the child welfare system. |
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Deborah Langosch |
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Deborah Langosch, Ph. D, LCSW, is the director of the Kinship Care Program and chairperson of the Brooklyn Grandparents’ Coalition at the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in New York City. She also co-chairs the New York City Kincare Task Force with the Brookdale Center on Aging. Dr. Langosch has been working with grandparent caregivers and their relative children for the past sixeen years in mental health settings and community service agencies. She has been responsible for program development, fund raising, direct service and supervision. Dr. Langosch recently completed her doctoral work at New York University School of Social Work. Her dissertation topic was, “Grandmother’s Raising Grandchildren Due to the Death of their Parent.” She has an extensive background in the field of loss and bereavement and is also in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. |
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Carol Moore |
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Carol Moore is self employed as a consultant providing training to nonprofits, schools, and universities. She is a Storyteller and Mixed media artist. She previously directed the KinCare Program for Mountain Empire Older Citizens, Inc, Big Stone Gap, VA where she was responsible for development and implementation of services and supports for kinship care families. She has provided training for Brookdale Foundation’s Relatives as Parents Program and served as an expert participant in Generations United's second national symposium on grandparents and other relatives raising children. |
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Rolanda Pyle |
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Rolanda Pyle is the Associate Director of the Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) at the Brookdale Foundation. She is the former Director of the New York City Department for the Aging’s Grandparent Resource Center. Ms. Pyle is a member of the Kin Care Task Force, the New York Committee for Kinship Family Care, and a member on the editorial board of Generations United. Ms. Pyle is a freelance writer who was recently published in GRAND magazine. She is the coauthor of the chapter ‘Support Groups in the Lives of Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren’, in the new book “To Grandmother’s House We Go and Stay.” Ms. Pyle is a certified social worker who holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Long Island University and a MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work. In April 2004, the New York Daily News named Ms. Pyle one of the “100 Women Who Shape Our City." |
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Mattie Satterfield |
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Mattie Satterfield has over 20 years of experience in the field of child welfare services. During the span of her service, she has provided direct supervision for social workers in Child Protective Services, Foster Care, Adoption and Family Services. Ms. Satterfield previously served as the Program Director for Kinship Care Services at Child Welfare League of America (CWLA). She holds a BSW from Morgan State University and a MSW from the University of Maryland School of Social Work and Community Planning. She is a licensed clinical social worker. |
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Barbara Schwartz |
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Barbara Schwartz serves as Supervisor of Intergenerational Programs for the Illinois Department on Aging. This initiative provides opportunities for seniors to volunteer in a wide variety of activities. She also serves as Coordinator for the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Program. In this capacity she serves as technical advisor for the development of statewide support groups for grandparents raising grandchildren and advocate for grandparent caregivers. Ms. Schwartz has participated in panel discussions at national, state and local conferences and speaks extensively throughout Illinois on behalf of relative caregivers. She is a member of the National Council on Aging and the Illinois Task Force on Grandparents Raising Grandchildren. She holds a B.A. in Children, Family and Community Services from the University of Illinois - Springfield. |
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Kim Sumner-Mayer |
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Kim Sumner-Mayer, Ph.D., LMFT (NJ) works for the Children of Alcoholics Foundation (COAF), where she manages the Kinship Care and Building Bridges programs. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and before joining COAF she was with Children’s Aid and Family Services, Inc. where she specialized in therapy with traumatized children and families in foster care, family reunification, and adoption. Her doctoral research focused on the experiences of foster families and implications for effective family therapy practice. Dr. Sumner-Mayer has been an Instructor of Family Studies at Syracuse University and she is an adjunct faculty member of the Syracuse University Family Therapy Summer Institute. She is also a trainer for the National Drug Court Institute and the federal Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Dr. Sumner-Mayer publishes and trains nationally in the areas of kinship care, substance abuse recovery and family reunification, cross-systems collaboration, and family therapy with the child welfare population. |
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Dena Targ |
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Dena Targ, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Department of Child Development and Family Studies, Purdue University, was an Extension Specialist for twenty-seven years, developing, disseminating, and delivering programs to a variety of audiences, often with a focus on the intersection of family problems and social problems. Dr. Targ is continuing that work as a consultant with an emphasis on relatives as parents, including grandparents raising grandchildren.
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