Meet the new director of Field Education, Ingrid Brown

Ingrid Brown is the brand new director of Area Training on the College of Social Work. She has a Bachelor of Science in enterprise administration from the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a focus in organizational administration and a Grasp of Social Work from the College of Illinois with a specialization in little one welfare and an emphasis in program planning and administration.

Brown started her profession at Catholic Charities (now generally known as the Heart for Youth & Household Options) in Danville, as a foster care case supervisor. She grew to become a supervisor of foster care quickly after acquiring her MSW. After a transfer to Chicago, she labored at Kids’s Dwelling & Assist as an adoption specialist doing foster care case administration, foster house licensing, and foster care and worldwide adoptions. Throughout her 10 years in Kids’s Dwelling & Assist’s Metropolitan Area, she was additionally an grownup transition specialist, supporting youth in care as they ready for emancipation from foster care; supervisor of foster care and adoption; and in the end, program supervisor of specialty foster care, overseeing groups offering conventional and specialised foster care case administration, in addition to intact household companies and foster care permanency work (adoption and backed guardianship).

After transferring to Kids’s Dwelling & Assist’s Central Area in 2018 and a transfer to Bloomington, she as a result of the company’s native director of kid welfare. After the regional little one welfare program closed, Brown transitioned to working in early childhood house visiting, overseeing house visiting groups in Bloomington and DeKalb. She has supervised many interns throughout her time within the subject and taught Superior Youngster Welfare Observe on the College of Illinois Chicago as an adjunct teacher. Let’s get to know her.

Why social work?

I grew up within the small city of Hoopeston and noticed how compassionately my dad and mom interacted with the folks they encountered of their respective jobs, which made an enduring impression on me. I and my youthful brother had been adopted by their dad and mom once we had been infants (examine her story on the Kids’s Dwelling & Assist web site: “Connecting Kids with Loving Households – Ingrid’s Story“). My expertise in the end impressed me to pursue a profession in supporting the security and well-being of kids. All through school, I had the chance to volunteer with totally different companies and found a knack for being concerned in the neighborhood. After I began working, I shortly grew to become keen about serving others, linking them with assets and assembly their total wants.

What do you hope to perform as the brand new director of Area Training?

I’m wanting to additional advocacy efforts in direction of figuring out and securing paid internship alternatives for Social Work college students. I actually ahead to attending to know the College of Social Work college students, school/employees and company companions—and connecting all the pieces (and everybody!) collectively.

Anything about you?

I’m married to Justin, a fellow LCSW (Licensed Scientific Social Employee) in the neighborhood. We’ve got two sons, Augie (6) and Ambrose (3), and a canine (Blue Heeler combine), named Bindi. I take pleasure in being outdoors, listening to stay music, operating, and spending time with my household and mates