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Leticia Garcia Greenman, LCSW, Director of Social Services, St. Joseph CenterThe Family Services Continuum at St. Joseph Center is overseen by Director Leticia Garcia Greenman. Leticia has 15 years of experience in program design and case management. She came to St. Joseph Center in April of 1997 following four years at Family Service of Los Angeles, where she provided counseling in addition to designing and implementing training and recreational activities for individuals, couples, families, children and teens. She also has 16 years experience providing career, educational and vocational counseling in a variety of settings.
Leticia's educational background includes two Bachelor's degrees from Yale University and a Master's in clinical psychology from Antioch University. She speaks, reads and writes Spanish and is fluent in English.
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Araceli Espinoza, Westside Children's CenterAraceli Espinoza is the Special Needs Project TLC (Teaching and Learning for all Children) Coordinator. She has been working for Westside Children’s Center for 6 years and looks forward to many more. She feels it has been a great experience working for an agency that is imbedded in the community and has a great vision for children and their families. Araceli has a background in Child Development and Children with special needs. Through our screening process we identify “special needs,” which could mean any number of stressors that impact the family unit. Therefore WIN is a strong partner and resource in providing infant-mental health as identified for Westside Children's Center clients. Araceli has lived in the same community that she now works in for 28 years, so she is truly invested in all the services that agencies offer to assist families on the Westside.
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Mimi Lind, Venice Family ClinicMimi Lind has been a Clinical Social Worker in health care settings since 1988, and is a domestic violence specialist. After receiving her M.A. from USC she started one of the first hospital based domestic violence programs in the country, at Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston.
Mimi has been with Venice Family Clinic for 12 years, during which time she started the Safe Families Domestic Violence Intervention Program there, and was Adjunct Professor at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine and Director of the Westside Domestic Violence Network.
Ms. Lind conducts trainings, workshops and consultations nationwide, specializing in patients’ psychosocial and domestic violence issues for medical professionals. She also received certification in Counseling Batterers from Emerge, Cambridge, MA. She consults for the LA Department of Public Health and her board memberships include Community Outreach for Prevention and Education and California Medical Training Center.
This year Mimi received the Making a Difference for Women Award from Soroptomist International and the Certificate of Recognition for Advancing Minority Mental Health, APA. She was raised in Honolulu and speaks fluent French and Spanish.
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Va Lecia Adams, Executive Director, St. Joseph CenterBorn and raised in Southern California, Va Lecia graduated with a B.A. from U.S.C., an M.A. from Ball State University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Throughout her doctoral program, she researched the factors that create stress in ethnic minority youth, and co-authored a chapter on this subject in the book The Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender: Implications for Multicultural Counseling (D. Pope Davis & H. L. K. Coleman, Eds.).
While working on her Ph.D., Ms. Adams served as Executive Director of The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP), which reaches out to low-income youth who are interested in becoming physicians.
Before joining St. Joseph Center, Va Lecia spent six years as Director of Transitional Living for United Friends of the Children.
Va Lecia has also held the position of Vice President of Counseling Services for College Bound, which provides college counseling and guidance to minority youth.
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Heather Carrigan, Executive Director, Westside Children's CenterComing soon...
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Elizabeth Benson Forer, Executive Director, Venice Family ClinicElizabeth Benson Forer is the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Venice Family Clinic. She joined the Clinic in 1994. Under her leadership, Board, staff, and volunteers have doubled the Clinic’s capacity and programs. The budget has gone from $5 million to $19 million and additional locations have been added, including a teen clinic on the campus of the Culver City High School and a primary care facility located at Mar Vista Gardens, a public housing development. Venice Family Clinic is the largest free clinic in the nation. During the 2008-2009 fiscal year, the Clinic provided services to more than 24,400 patients in over 100,000 patient visits, in addition to auxiliary visits such as medical refills, case management and health education at eight locations on the west side of Los Angeles County.
Ms. Forer holds masters’ degrees in social work and public health from Columbia University. Prior to joining Venice Family Clinic, she served for five years as Executive Director of Settlement Health and Medical Services, a nonprofit community health center in East Harlem, New York. She also directed a department at Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, where her mission was to make the hospital more accessible to local residents.
At Venice Family Clinic, Ms. Forer reports to the Board of Directors, which oversees the development of clinical services and fundraising. She is also responsible for the administration of the Clinic’s 230 member staff and more than 2,000 medical, administrative and fundraising volunteers.
Ms. Forer has served as a Board member of the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County, and as the Vice President and a Board member of the National Association of Free Clinics. She was also a California HealthCare Foundation Health Leadership Fellow. Through these organizations and her direct advocacy work, Ms. Forer is involved at the local, state, and national levels in developing health care legislation and policy initiatives that will help people with low incomes and no health insurance.
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Dr. Alicia LiebermanAlicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Child Trauma Research Project at San Francisco General Hospital. She is a clinical consultant with the San Francisco Human Services Agency. She is active in major national organizations involved with mental health in infancy and early childhood. She is president of the board of directors of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, and on the Professional Advisory Board of the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute. She has served on peer review panels of the National Institute of Mental Health, is on the Board of Trustees of the Irving Harris Foundation, and consults with the Miriam and Peter Haas Foundation on early childhood education for Palestinian-Israeli children.
Born and raised in Paraguay, she received her B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ph.D. from The John Hopkins University. This background informs her work on behalf of children and families from diverse ethnic and cultural origins, with primary emphasis on the experiences of Latinos in the United States.
Dr. Lieberman is currently the director of the Early Trauma Treatment Network (ETTN), a collaborative of four university sites that include the UCSF/SFGH Child Trauma Research Project, Boston Medical Center, Louisiana State University Medical Center, and Tulane University. ETTN is funded by the federal Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as part of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a 40-site national initiative that has the mission of increasing the access and quality of services for children exposed to trauma in the United States. Her major interests include infant mental health, disorders of attachment, early trauma treatment outcome research, and mental health service disparities for underserved and minority children and families. Her current research involves treatment outcome evaluation of the efficacy of child-parent psychotherapy with traumatized children aged birth to six and with pregnant women involved in domestic violence. As a trilingual, tricultural Jewish Latina, she has a special interest in cultural issues involving child development, childrearing, and child mental health. She lectures extensively on these topics nationally and in four continents.
Clinical Expertise:
Mental health problems and traumatic stress responses in infancy and early childhood; attachment disorders; parenting problems in the birth-to-five age range; cultural issues in parenting, mental health treatment, and training.
Educational Expertise:
Mental health problems and traumatic stress responses in infancy and early childhood; attachment disorders, parenting problems in the birth-to-five age range.
Research Areas:
Mental health problems and traumatic stress responses in infancy and early childhood; attachment disorders, parenting problems in the birth-to-five age range, treatment outcome research to close the gap in evidence-based treatment for minority young children and their families.
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Kadija Johnston, LCSWKadija Johnston, LCSW, is director of the UCSF Infant Parent Program, an infant mental health training and clinical program founded by one of the early leaders in the field, Selma Fraiberg. Kadija has spoken throughout the country on infant mental health practice, and is co-author of the recently released handbook, Mental Health Consultation in Child Care: Transforming Relationships With Directors, Staff, And Families.
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