Supporting and collaborating with individuals living with complex disabilities and chronic medical challenges, their families and the professionals who support them. LindenTree Group provides consultation, coaching, advocacy, transition planning, program exploration and research. Consultants provide workshops and training on a variety of topics related to Advocacy, Special Education, IEPs,Transition Planning, Community Engagement, and Communication.

Provide social work services to students and families at this "approved private school" for students with significant disabilities with both day and residential educational programs.• Provide training for staff in areas related to communication, family stressors, child abuse/neglect; crisis response/management• Provide clinical support to students, families and staff• Participate in Individual Education Plans, Re-evaluation Reviews and Team meetings for students. • Provide information to parents related to community resources, school policies & procedures• Coordinate the Admissions Committee, respond to referrals• Transition planning for students ages 14 – 21.• Coordinate special events for families.

Program Director for the Family Friends Program, a community based program that provides a variety of support services to families of children with special needs, including grndparents and other relatives raising children ("kinship care"). Provide direct services and program management for this grant-funded program.• Directly managed and supervised all aspects of this intergenerational community program, including direct services, program planning, financial management, fundraising, and evaluation;• Supervised Program Coordinator/social worker in provision of direct support services to families and children;• Prepared and monitored program budgets and grants;• Prepared statistical and narrative program reports for grantors/funders;• Collaborated with community agencies and programs in provision of support services to families of children with special needs, and kinship care families;• Presented workshops and trainings in the community as requested;• Participated in collaborative efforts at the local, regional and national level;• Supervised graduate and undergraduate social work interns from Temple University and University of Pennsylvania.

Program Coordinator for the Family Friends Program, a community based program that provides a variety of support services to families of children with special needs, including grandparents and other relatives raising children ("kinship care"). Provide direct services and program management for this grant-funded program.• Recruited, interviewed, supervised volunteers providing in-home respite and family support to clients;• Planned and conducted pre-service training and monthly inservice meetings for adult volunteers;• Organized special events for families and volunteers;• Designed and monitored use of Access database for data management (clinical and demographic) for all program participants and professional contacts;• Presented workshops and trainings in the community as requested;• Participated in collaborative efforts at the local, regional and national level;• Produced quarterly newsletter.• Supervised graduate and undergraduate social work interns from Temple University and University of Pennsylvania.

Programs of the Children's Seashore House - Provided clinical social work services in the following programs at this pediatric rehabilitation hospital: Feeding/Dysphasia Program, Developmental Disabilities Unit, Center for Complex Care and Medical Management, Cerebral Palsy Clinic, Child Development Program. Clinical skills include: psychosocial parent/family assessment, parent/family counseling, problem solving and crisis intervention, parent training, advocacy, multidisciplinary team collaboration; and community resource/referral.• Created and implemented Community Referral Database;• Designed and facilitated parent education/support groups to address common parent/child issues;• Coordinated Speakers Bureau and Kids Are Kids program, providing a disability awareness program to schools and community groups;• Conducted psychosocial assessments of preschool and school aged children, with learning disabilities;• Provided clinical social work supervision to graduate students from the Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, and the University Affiliated Program of Children's Seashore House.

Coordinated multi-disciplinary evaluation and treatment services to children with profound hearing loss, managed patient evaluation process, and facilitated team function and commnunications.• Conducted informational sessions for parents;• Facilitated in-services to schools and community organizations;• Designed and implemented psychosocial activities for parents and children focusing on pre-surgical readiness, adjustment, and school re-entry.