The staff of the Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice includes a team of seasoned professionals who are committed to supporting people and organizations as they make changes to benefit vulnerable children who need strong families and communities. We are:
Sarah B. Greenblatt, Director
Eneida Blugh, Project Manager
Barbara Drake, Administrative Assistant
Lauren Frey, Project Manager
Leah Glasheen, Information Services
Specialist
Mary LeBeau, Project Manager
Isabel Morales, Senior Project Associate
Donald Roussel, Senior Project Associate
Lori Ryan, Senior Project Associate
Sarah B. Greenblatt, Director
In May 2001, Sarah B. Greenblatt joined Casey Family
Services to help launch its Casey Center for Effective
Child Welfare Practice. For over 30 years Sarah has
worked with and on behalf of vulnerable children, families
and their communities. She has been a teacher, caseworker,
supervisor, trainer, policy analyst, consultant, and
program administrator. As Director of the Casey Center,
Sarah coordinates national consultation reflecting Casey's
successful child welfare program experiences. Prior
to coming to Casey Family Services, she served as the
Director of the National Resource Center for Foster
Care and Permanency Planning at the Hunter College School
of Social Work in New York City where she worked with
public, non-profit and tribal agencies to promote quality
foster care services and meaningful permanency planning
for children.
Sarah holds Master's degrees in Social Work from Columbia
University and Educational Administration from Leslie
College, and a Bachelor's degree in Child Development
and Family Relations from the University of Connecticut.
Throughout her career, Sarah has worked with community
groups, public human service and housing organizations,
child welfare agencies and private foundations across
the country to collaboratively improve practice and
promote sound public policies.
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Eneida Blugh, Project Manager
Eneida Blugh joined the Casey Center as a Project Manager in 2005 after six years providing independent consulting with public and private child welfare agencies. Most recently, she participated in and co-lead numerous federal Child and Family Services Reviews across the country, assessing states' progress in meeting the safety, permanency and developmental well-being needs of children and families. She has also provided resource parent training and engaged in resource family home studies with private child welfare agencies in New York City (NYC).
Previously, Eneida worked for the NYC Administration for Children's Services providing program support with contract agencies and also with the Pediatric Aids Unit. She began her child welfare career as a NYC child protective service worker. Eneida has a Bachelor's degree in Social Work from Antioch College, a Master's degree in Public Administration from John Jay College of the City University of New York and has been working on another Master's degree in Early Childhood Education.
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Barbara Drake, Administrative Assistant
Barbara Drake joined the Casey Center 2001 as our Administrative
Assistant. Barbara's responsibilities are many and varied.
Based at Casey headquarters in New Haven, she works
closely with the Casey Center Director and all Casey
Center staff to formulate and carry out plans, policies
and operational procedures for the Center, particularly
in the areas of fiscal accountability, travel planning,
and conference and meeting coordination.
Barbara holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from
Central Connecticut State University and has completed
graduate courses in both elementary school guidance
and social work. She also is a trained paralegal and
has an extensive background in real estate law.
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Lauren Frey, Project Manager
Lauren Frey joined the Casey Center as a Project Manager
in 2003. In this role, she provides and coordinates
training and technical assistance with teams of Casey
Family Services practitioners and national consultants.
Lauren’s projects at the Casey Center focus primarily
on permanence for youth in transition, assuring that
the Center’s technical assistance reflects Casey
Family Services' successful child welfare experiences
and is consistent with national best practices that
emphasize safety, family permanency and well-being for
all children and youth in the child welfare system.
Lauren brings over 25 years of child welfare practice,
training and leadership experience as a social worker,
supervisor, advocate, and manager of adoption, foster
care and permanency services. Most recently she was
Director of the Massachusetts Families for Kids Program
at Children’s Services of Roxbury, where she provided
statewide systems reform leadership and national consultation.
Lauren holds a Master's Degree in social work from the
University of Connecticut School of Social Work, and
a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Gordon
College.
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Leah Glasheen, Information
Services Specialist
As information services specialist at The Casey Center
for Effective Child Welfare Practice, Leah Glasheen
provides information and research to support the agency’s
priority needs. She also responds to requests for child
welfare practice and policy information. Leah joined
Casey in 2006 with many years of experience in journalism,
public policy, and social work. After nearly 20 years
as a Washington-based reporter, she worked in a variety
of educational, philanthropic, and community-based organizations
in Western Massachusetts. Most recently, she served
as a community outreach specialist for the Women's Health
Network, a program of the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health.
Leah holds a bachelor's degree in history from the
University of Pennsylvania, a graduate-level publications
certificate from George Washington University and a
master's degree in Social Work from the University of
Connecticut.
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Mary LeBeau, Project Manager
Mary LeBeau joined the Casey Center as a Project Manager
in January 2005. She is responsible for coordinating
and providing training and technical assistance with
teams of Casey Family Services practitioners and national
consultants. Mary’s projects focus on permanency
for youth in transition and our emerging third priority
area of family-based treatment foster care. Mary brings
22 years experience in the field of child welfare services
as a trainer, a consultant and as an adoption and mental
health practitioner within the private, non-profit sector.
Most recently, Mary was Program Director for the statewide,
collaborative Permanency Mediation Services at Massachusetts
Families for Kids at Children’s Services of Roxbury,
where she also oversaw the adolescent permanency planning
initiative which focused on establishing a lifelong
family connection for youth at risk of “aging
out” of the foster care system.
Mary holds a Master’s in Social Work from Virginia
Commonwealth University and with a Bachelor of Arts
degree from the University of Massachusetts.
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Isabel Morales, Senior Project
Associate
Isabel Morales brings 25 years of experience in the
human services field to her post as senior project associate
at the Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice.
She is responsible for providing training and consultation,
particularly as it relates to the agency’s move
to greater permanence. Isabel’s broad skill set
includes providing mediation with adolescents and families
involved in a court diversion program, permanency mediation
using both team decision-making and cooperative adoption
mediation. She recently served as director of CASE,
a child advocacy program serving court-involved children
and youth in Hamden County, Massachusetts. She has also
consulted and trained child service professionals on
mediation, team-building and conflict management.
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Donald Roussel, Senior Project
Associate
Donald Roussel is a senior project associate at the
Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice. He
provides coaching and consultation to staff members
in Casey Family Services’ divisions to support
the organization’s move to greater permanence.
He also offers local and national technical assistance,
training, and consultation related to the Casey Center's
priority areas of permanence for youth and treatment
foster care.
Don holds a master’s degree in social work and
has worked in the child welfare field since 1997, providing
a full spectrum of strength-based collaborative services
to children and families. Prior to joining Casey, he
provided home-based, clinical interventions to children,
youth, and families using solutions-focused modalities.
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Lori Ryan, Senior Project Associate
Lori Ryan joined the Casey Center in 2005 as a Senior
Project Associate. She is responsible for providing
training and consultation related to permanency for
youth in transition. She has worked in the field of
child welfare for the past 15 years as a protective
services and adoption social worker, and most recently
as a senior staff member with the Massachusetts Families
for Kids (MFFK) program at Children's Services of Roxbury.
At MFFK, Lori helped develop, implement and institutionalize
collaborative models of child-centered and family-focused
permanency planning for children in the state foster
care system. Lori brings a specialized expertise in
mediating cooperative open adoption agreements between
birth and adoptive parents, as well as local and national
permanency-related training.
Lori holds a Bachelor's degree in Social Rehabilitation
from Assumption College and a Master's in Counseling
Psychology from Anna Maria College.
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