Child-centered solutions
Gives back
Here are several free and helpful webinars that you can attend. Please share these with your friends, therapists, attorneys…anyone else you know who is personally impacted and also professionals working with parents experiencing separation, divorce, post divorce and step family challenges.
family law ACHIEVEMENT AWARD For Extraordinary leadership, professionalism and service to Maine families
awarded by maine state bar association in 2010
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March 2024-Present
Member, Pro Bono Committee of the Justice Action Group
June 2023-Present
Equity Advocate; Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System (PACTS) Policy Board.
Greater Portland Council of Governments
December 2022-August 2024
Executive Board, Board of Directors, Kids First Center, Scarborough, Maine
June 2020-December 2022
President of the Board of Directors, Kids First Center, Scarborough, Maine
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May 2022 - September 2024
Appointed By Governor Mills to Volunteer Maine as a Commissioner to Seat 14; an expert in the delivery of educational services to communities and people.
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January 2004- Present
President and Founder of Child-Centered Solutions
July 2004- 2014
Guardian ad Litem, Title 19A Family Matters Cases
June 2000- Present
Staff assistant, Educator, and Facilitator, Kids First Center
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September 1996 - May 2000
Bachelor of Social Work, University of Southern Maine
September 2002-May 2004
Master of Social Work, University of Southern Maine
September-December 2007
Harvard Law School, Program on Principled Negotiation
September 2021-May 2025
PhD in Public Policy.
Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine.
Area of scholarship: Coercive Control and Family Matters.