About Amanda
Biography
“Amanda did very well during her presentation. It was fresh and upbeat. You can never go wrong with classic humor! Overall, she represented well and seemed knowledgeable of what she was teaching. Kudos....”
Amanda’s career in human services has given her a wide range of experiences providing cost-effective care to youth and families in Virginia and includes direct practice, prevention programming and service development, utilization management and administration. Her most recent experience as a local Comprehensive Services Act Coordinator involved complex work in a rapidly changing system. She considers her greatest accomplishments in this position to be the implementation of individualized Family Assessment and Planning Teams, creation of wraparound care coordination in the CSA office, using flexible funding to impact foster care and congregate care placements, and streamlining the processes around accessing CSA funding. She understands the complexities of inter-agency collaboration, cultural competency, and provision of strengths-based, family-driven care. Her small and large successes in these areas give her the tools she needs to provide muchneeded assistance and training to others as they engage in similar system transformations.
Amanda is a gifted communicator who believes in the power of unlikely partnerships to help bring about change. At the core of her passion for this work she believes that families can be successful, that people (even systems) can and do change, and that we get there quicker when we go together allowing families and strengths to guide us.
Amanda earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Richmond and her Master of Science degree in Sociology from Virginia Tech.
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