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| Cynthia Park is a clinical social worker, certified addictions therapist and trainer with over 25 years experience in the fields of social work and addictions. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in sociology from Beloit College in Wisconsin, a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work and has completed a 2-year post-graduate training program in Gestalt therapy through the Gestalt Training Institute in Washington, D.C. In addition, Ms. Park is a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor through the Maryland Addictions Professional Certification Board. Ms. Park is also the co-author of Despair Turned Into Rage: Understanding and Helping Abused, Neglected and Abandoned Youth, published by the Child Welfare League of America. Ms. Park’s professional experience includes over ten years in the field of public child welfare as a child protective services investigator, screening supervisor, supervisor of clinical services to homeless families and, currently, Faculty Field Instructor/Supervisor of a student unit providing family preservation services to county residents. In the private sector, Ms. Park worked for eleven years with children and families as an administrator of a group home and senior therapist on a mobile crisis intervention team targeting children and adolescents in psychiatric crisis. Ms. Park also has experience providing discharge planning and psychiatric assessments at a local hospital and emergency room. Other social work experience includes work in the addictions field providing training, assessments and individual and group therapy to adults and adolescents. Currently Ms. Park is a Faculty Field Instructor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in the Title IV-E Public Child Welfare Program. In this position Ms. Park supervises up to ten undergraduate and graduate students each year as they provide services to strengthen families and improve their self-sufficiency. The position involves extensive interfacing between the academic and practice arenas by helping students blend their knowledge and social work skills to serve families in crisis while always assessing and protecting the safety, well-being and permanence of children. |
