Kara Allen-Eckard is the Family Trainer Coordinator and a trainer for the Center for Family and Community Engagement (CFFACE). She has worked for CFFACE since 2004 supporting our work with the Division of Social Services and the Department of Public Instruction. She earned a BA in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Virginia, and earned her MSW from the University of Washington.
Kara was Program Director of the Community-Family Partnership Project in Kent, Washington from 1998-2003 where she utilized family-centered meeting practice to develop partnerships between families, communities and social services. Before that she was a Child Welfare Services social worker for the Washington Division of Children and Family Services. This work supported her convictions that family-centered meetings are an effective way to forge respectful partnerships with families.
Kara's future goals with CFFACE are (a) To support the development of Child and Family Teams in all North Carolina child serving agencies, (b) To promote partnerships between child serving agencies through the use of Child and Family Teams and (c) To support family voices as an essential partner in policy, program and training in the development and implementation of Child and Family Teams.
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