Community Partnerships for Protecting Children
Foster Adoptive Support and Training
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Doug Burnham |
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Ashley Carr |
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Crystal Collins-Camargo is a clinical assistant professor in the College of Social Work with a practice emphasis in child welfare and ethics. She manages a number of engaged research and evaluation projects related to child welfare practice. |
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Jeff Damron brings to his position here at the TRC an academic background in business and theology. After earning his BA in Church Ministries at Warner Souther College in Lake Wales, FL, Jeff went on to seminary at Anderson Theological Seminary to pursue a Master of Divinity degree. Jeff spent seventeen years in church ministry as Minister of Youth and Families in Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky. Currently, Jeff is pursuing his MSW here at UK and thouroughly enjoying being "Dad" to his three children. |
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Jessica Fletcher joined the Training Resource Center in January of 2006. She serves as a program coordinator for Comprehensive Family Services facilitating Family Team Meetings and assisting Safety Net participants in Fayette County. She is currently pursuing her MS in Social Work at the University of Kentucky. |
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Tamikia Dumas, MS, LSW, joined the Training Resource Center in 2002. She currently works with the Resource Parent Mentor program. She is responsible for coordinating mentor matches for newly approved resource parents in the western regions. She received her MS in Human Services and BS in Social Work from Murray State University. She enjoys working with mentors and helping them provide support to newly approved resource parents. |
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Judy Evans-Pack |
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Martie Gillen |
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Theodore Godlaski |
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Jennifer Hall, MSW joined the UK Training Resource Center in 2002 where she oversees programs related to training and support for the Department for Community Based Services’ foster and adoptive parents and is the Project Manager for the National Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services. She also teaches two child welfare courses that are part of the Public Child Welfare Certification Program. Away from work, she enjoys spending time with her family and trying to keep up with her three young children. |
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Judy Harrison is a pediatric nurse with 32 years of experience as a foster and adoptive mother for the child with complex medical needs. She enjoys being a mom and teaching. |
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Diane Hawes has worked at the University of Kentucky for 11 years and at the TRC for five years. She is currently assisting the FAST center. |
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Kim Heller |
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George Humlong is the current Director of the Resource Parent Training program at the University of Kentucky Training Resource Center. Among other responsibilities, George coordinates statewide training conferences, co- trains PS-Mapp and Enhancing Safety and Permanency and edits the FAST Track magazine. George and his wife Janyl have been foster parents since 1992. In 2000, they became adoptive parents. George and Janyl live in Lexington Kentucky with their three children Ryan, Sam and Sarah. |
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Blake L. Jones, MSW, Ph.D. is the program coordinator for Kentucky's Citizen Review Panels and consults nationally on CRPs. Dr. Jones also coordinates the UK College of Social Work's Continuing Education Program. He is a singer-songwriter, husband, and father of two young sons. |
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Jill Keogh |
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Seth Krusich joined the Training Resource Center in April of 2005. He is currently a program coordinator for both ASK and the Resource Parent Mentor Program. Seth is a graduate of Asbury College where he earned his BA in social work and was a 3-year starter on the varsity basketball team. Currently, Seth is working on earning his MSW from the University of Kentucky. In his spare time he enjoys playing basketball, guitar, disc golf and spending time with his wife and Little Brother. |
| Theresa Lauro has worked for the Training Resource Center for four years. Working with people with disabilities has been her career. She has been a camp counselor, a teacher’s aide, a job coach and an employee in a medically fragile foster home. Organization is a compulsion; retiring at the beach a life long goal. | |
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Jennifer Lyons |
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Carrie Saunders joined the Training Resource Center in 2001. She created and is responsible for the ASK program which provides a consortium of parent-led adoptive parent support groups throughout Kentucky. Carrie is graduate of the University of Kentucky with a BA and MS in Social Work. She is a member of the Kentucky Adoption Coalition and the Thursday's Child Board working to ensure permanency for children. |
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Missy Segress became the director of the University of Kentucky Training Resource Center in June 2007. Before joining the TRC, Missy spent more than 9 years working with transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work groups whose goal it was to solve complex social and health-related issues. Missy holds a Masters of Science degree in Counseling Psychology and is currently pursing a Doctorate of Public Health degree. |
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Carol Taylor |
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Pam Weeks , JD, MSW, is a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Director of an education outreach program in public child welfare. Her areas of focus include child welfare, law and social work, child mental health and educational outreach. Before coming to UK, Pam spent 20 years in practice as a social worker and an attorney. |
