玛丽驻军

Mary has more than 35 years of experience providing management, 培训, and technical assistance to individuals, 组织, and jurisdictions working to keep children, 青年, and families safe and healthy. With a background in 心理健康 儿童福利, Mary built her expertise in the social service intersections of 心理健康, 行为健康, 少年司法, 儿童福利.

As a supervisor and manager, Mary understands the critical role that good personnel leadership plays in achieving positive outcomes. Her expertise in developing supervisors and managers has become a cornerstone of her technical approaches. She provides solutions and strategies to promote data-driven decision-making, continuous quality improvement, 和问责制. Mary is also an implementation expert who builds tailored solutions to help move the field forward by identifying the right problem to solve at the right time, 在正确的地方.

Mary began her career in rural 心理健康, focusing on treating children and families who had been traumatized by abuse and domestic violence and had lived in poverty for generations. She worked with the child abuse investigations units to find appropriate placements and interventions before moving to a private child welfare organization, where she developed and managed residential and day treatment, 团体及寄养服务, and clinical and independent living programming. 从2000年开始, Mary provided 培训 and consultation to public child welfare agencies in practice model and leadership development, 心理健康, 评估, and policy implementation. She also worked with university partners to support organizational development in public child welfare agencies in multiple jurisdictions.

Early in her career here, Mary led the development of the capacity-building approach for public child welfare agencies and oversaw the development of the change management model, which became the standard for how 培训 and technical assistance (TTA) was delivered in child welfare. She was responsible for overseeing the implementation of a program designed to deliver TTA to every 状态 child welfare jurisdiction in the country, including virtual conferences, 对等网络, product and learning development, and data-driven decision-making. 在她的领导下, the project delivers 100 products, 80个事件, and over 30 tailored projects per year.

Mary has also led the development of solutions for TTA to programs serving unaccompanied minors. She is responsible for a large portfolio of federal, 状态, and local child welfare and 少年司法 projects.

Mary has a masters of science in social work and a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of 田纳西州. She holds an Executive 教育 in Leading Effective Decision Making certification from the Yale School of Management, and she is a published author.