Janice H. Hawkins "No Day but Today" -- from the Jonathan Larsen play "Rent". Organization: Brooklyn Child Protection Agency Location: Brooklyn, New York Website: N/A

Biography:
Ms. Hawkins began her social work career as a volunteer with Head Start as the Bedford Stuyvesant Area Representative to the New York City Head Start Policy Council. She initiated new methods of getting parents to contribute time and service on both the neighborhood and city level. She also reviewed contracts with outside agencies and approved personnel changes as per Head Start’s federal mandate.

Most recently serving the Administration for Children’s Services as ACS/Department of Education Liaison. In this role she helped strengthen our working relationships with the Department of Education and local contract agencies. She has served as ACS’ Finance Deputy Director for Claiming and Financial Compliance where she wrote the narrative for ACS’ first federal cost allocation plan and as Child Protective Manager for Administration for the Brooklyn and Linden offices where she became the first manager to “float” between two field offices and as Supervisor to the High Risk/ Hospital Unit during the crack epidemic of the ‘80’s and 90’s.

She has used her expertise and experience in countless invaluable ways to support the work of the agency. In the past two decades she has worked at Children’s Services, Ms. Hawkins held positions in front-line casework, supervisory and managerial functions. She has worked on the development and implementation of a number of ACS initiatives aimed at accountability in case-practice improvement in child welfare areas such as child protective services, High Risk/ Hospital units, development of the Family Preservation Program, an intensive six week intervention program for families at risk for removals as well as developing local administrative tracking aids for local ACS administration. For the past 10 years, she has served as part of the Brooklyn Field Office, Division for Child Protection administrative team to develop methods of quantifying casework and projecting future needs.

Ms. Hawkins holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work Administration, a Post Graduate Management Program Certificate and is a Licensed Master Social Worker. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Public Policy and Administration at Walden University.

Availability:
Available as a speaker.