Equipping the child welfare workforce to improve the well-being of children

Richard P. Barth, PhD, MSW, is a Professor and the Dean at the School of Social Work, University of Maryland. He previously held chaired professorships at the University of North Carolina and the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarship has spanned home visiting, parent training, evidence-based practice, kinship care, adoption and residential care. He has been a Fulbright Scholar twice. He is the Past President of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and a Fellow of the Society for Social Work Research and the American Psychological Association.

Bethany R. Lee, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Dean for Research and an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her current research projects focus on the implementation of evidence-based and promising practices at the intersection of child welfare and child mental health services for youth and families. She has a special interest in children and youth receiving the highest levels of social and behavioural health care.

Mary Theresa Hodorowicz, LSCW-C, is a PhD candidate at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She has ten years of practice experience in children's services (providing family preservation services) and has been teaching and training motivational interviewing to graduate social works students in the USA and in Central America for the last three years.