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- About the Child Welfare Content Specialist
- Common Questions for the Child Welfare Content Specialist
- Other Technical Assistance Available
About the Child Welfare Content Specialist
Kim Pawley Helfgott currently serves as the child welfare content specialist for the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health. She supports system of care grantee communities funded by the Center for Mental Health Services by sharing strategies and resources for addressing the mental health needs of children, youth, and families at risk of entering, or currently involved in, the child welfare system, and by effectively partnering with the child welfare system. In this role, she facilitates peer-to-peer networking, coordinates conference presentations and webinars, and provides technical assistance and training.
Background and Experience
Kim has 30 years of experience in the human service sector in the areas of service delivery, program development, and project management. She has coordinated national initiatives to enhance services and service delivery for children, youth and families.
Prior to her current position, she served as Deputy Director for the Child Welfare Information Gateway, an information clearinghouse supported by the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families. She coordinated the development of web and print resources for improving child welfare practice and addressing federal mandates for safety, permanence and well-being. Kim has had extensive experience coordinating many national initiatives to strengthen services and service delivery for children, youth and families at Volunteers of America, the National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations, and the Child Welfare League of America. Prior to her work at the national level, she worked with children, youth and families in residential treatment, community-based mental health, psychiatric, and special education organizations.
Common questions for the Child Welfare Content Specialist
- Partnering with child welfare: understanding goals and priorities
- Funding resources for child welfare
- Assessing mental health needs
- Enhancing coordinating referrals from child welfare
- Engaging families in decision making
- Creating parent mentor/navigator initiatives
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