America Islas, MS, Bilingual Mental Health Counselor

Areas of Expertise:

• Couples, family, and individual therapy
• Providing bilingual counseling services using a strengths-based treatment model
• Working with low-income communities
• LGBTQ training
• Trauma-informed and eclectic theoretical orientation

Elijah Nealy, PhD, M.Div., LCSW, Assistant Professor, University of Saint Joseph  (he/him)

Areas of Expertise:

• LGBTQ youth and adults
• Transgender & gender diverse youth and their families
• LGBTQ youth in child welfare
• organizational best practices for trans and gender diverse youth
• family therapy
• spirituality, faith, & religion

James Welch

Areas of Expertise:

• Youth engagement and retention
• Utilizing strengths-based interventions in therapeutic settings to support foster youth
• Facilitation of Care Coordination
• Case Management
• Intervention outreach, recruitment, advocacy

Joann Cerda

Areas of Expertise:

• Working with youth and families in the LGBTQ + community or families who may need support in being supportive, accepting, and affirming
• Conducting outreach to build relationships with communities and foster care agencies

Reverend Shanea Leonard

Areas of Expertise:

• Urban Ministry
• LGBTQ-Inclusive religious woship
• Intersections of sexuality, race, faith, and justice

Vida Khavar

Areas of Expertise:

• Training and leadership consultation
• Organizational Management and Performance Excellence for social service and health care providers
• Team-Based Culture and Process-Based Management
• Coaching & Fidelity
• Marriage & Family Therapy