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Parent-Led, Family-Centered: Shaping Policies for Innovative Systems Change

Bio:

Gwen is a licensed mental health counselor, Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC), and an endorsed Infant Mental Health Mentor-Clinical IMH-E®, Gwen offers over 25 years of experience working with young children and parents in various clinical settings including a long-term women and children’s substance abuse program, providing in-home services to families involved in the child welfare system, and as a clinician and clinical director in an outpatient mental health setting. She has worked with infants through the lifespan and provided evidence-based therapies while focusing on an integrative service approach including infant mental health, adult mental health, substance abuse treatment, peer recovery support, and intimate partner violence services. Gwen’s clinical practice, training, and partnership with families has given her a deeper understanding and appreciation for the importance of partnering with parents in efforts to ensure all families have the supports they need to thrive and has inspired her journey to the work she does as the Sr Clinical and Parent Leadership Manager with Safe Babies, a program of ZERO TO THREE.