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Current National Partners FRIENDS offers services in collaboration with several National Partners that allows our eligible service agencies to access training and technical assistance that is at the forefront of the field. These partners are active members of the FRIENDS team. Julie Collins, Child Welfare League of America Julie Collins Contact: Kristen Rector is the Director of Programs at Prevent Child Abuse Tennessee since 2002. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Tennessee, and is a Licensed Advanced Practice Social Worker in the state of Tennessee. She has an extensive knowledge of domestic violence, shaken baby syndrome, and child abuse and neglect prevention. She is a certified trainer for a number of national programs, including the Circle of Parents, Healthy Families America Great Beginnings Start Before Birth, Healthy Families America Family Support Worker, Zero to Three, and the Nurturing Parenting Program. She is part of a team coordinating the Parent Leadership Ambassador Training project for the FRIENDS National Resource Center with the Circle of Parents. Previous clinical experience includes counseling on an acute care child and adolescent wing at Peninsula Psychiatric Hospital, and school counseling with at risk children and adolescents in Marshall County. Contact: Phone: 615-383-0994 Dr. Raymond S. Kirk joins the FRIENDS teams as a Director of Research and Program Evaluation at Independent Living Resources, Inc, of Durham, NC. He has held teaching, professional and administrative positions in academe and in government, prior to joining the ILR, Inc., in his present position. He has worked extensively with private sector organizations and foundations on program design, program evaluation and policy analysis. His writing and research activities have focused on both qualitative and quantitative program evaluation and client-centered outcome evaluation, primarily in the areas of child welfare, child protection services, and other youth and family programs. He served as Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services during the administrations of 2 Vermont Governors. Ray is also is the developer of the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale and the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale for Reunification, family functioning scales for use in placement prevention and reunification cases where family preservation service methods are employed. He has also worked with CHTOP as a methodologist and analyst on federally research grants, and on the development of outcome evaluation manuals and guidebooks. Contact: |