About CWLA
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) is an 80-year-old
national, nonprofit, membership organization devoted
to protecting children and strengthening families. It
unites over 1,000 public and private agencies, community
based and regionally organized, that serve some four
million children and youths every year across the United
States. CWLA has more than 130 highly qualified employees.
Through its membership, CWLA advocates
for high standards of practice, sound public policies,
and quality services. Its mission is to provide guidance,
training, technical assistance, research, and consultation
to its member agencies and the field of child welfare,
and to advocate in the public arena on behalf of vulnerable
children and their families. CWLA's standards and board-approved
policies commit it to ensuring that all agencies, services,
and programs are conducted in a manner that respects
and values the cultural and ethnic diversity of their
constituents.
About staff
on the NRC-CWDT project
Lynda Arnold, MSW, Director
Lynda Arnold currently serves as Director of the National Resource Center for Child Welfare Data and Technology (NRC-CWDT). Prior to her current position, Lynda retired from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services after 29 years, the last six of which she served as the Child Welfare Director. During that time Oklahoma became the first state to implement a federally compliant Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS). Since then, Lynda served as the co-director of the National Resource Center for Information Technology in Child Welfare from 1999 until 2003, where she worked nationally on child welfare data issues and outcomes-based management. Most recently she was an Associate Director of the National Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (NRC-OI) working on leadership, systemic change, change management and workforce issues.
Debbie Milner, M.S.W., Consultant
Debbie Milner joined the staff of NRC-CWDT in April
2001. She began her career in social work as a county
caseworker. Most of her career was at the state office
with varied roles in system development, state foster
care recruitment, and constituent services. Her 25 year
career with the Alabama Department of Human Resources
culminated as the functional program director for the
development of their SACWIS system, ASSIST.
Donald G. Thompson, Information
and Technology Specialist
Gene Thompson joined NRC-CWDT in March 2003, after more
than 28 years of public service with the Oklahoma Department
of Human Services. He assisted with the development
and implementation of the Oklahoma KID’s Statewide
Automated Child Welfare Information System, as well
as a prior automated system supporting child abuse and
neglect services. Mr. Thompson started his career with
the Department of Human Services as a social worker
for the developmentally disabled. Prior to his work
with Oklahoma’s Division of Children and Family
Services, he worked for seven years with the Data Services
Division, as a DP Manager with responsibility for providing
end user training and support to all DHS staff. Mr.
Thompson has a Bachelor of Education from East Central
Oklahoma State College and a Master of Education from
East Central Oklahoma State University. After retiring
from the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, he spent
three years working with the State of Arkansas, Division
of Children and Family Services, as a Business Analyst
for SACWIS requirements and AFCARS/NCANDS data quality
issues.
Julie Ohm, M.S., Senior
Child Welfare Data Specialist
Julie Ohm joined the resource center in October of 2003.
She is responsible for providing technical assistance
to states and tribes on the analysis of child welfare
data, including the use of geographic information systems.
Ms. Ohm’s experience includes database administration
and software/website development, most recently with
CWLA’s National Data Analysis System. She received
her master’s degree in Child and Family Development
from Virginia Tech.
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