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| Carnell H. Windley-Ginn is currently a Faculty Field Instructor for the University of Maryland School of Social Work. She has worked in public child welfare since 1979, having worked in most agency services, to include Emergency Housing, Foster and Kinship Care, Adolescent Services, Residential Care, and Family Preservations Services. She holds a Masters of Social Work degree from Howard University in Washington, DC. She serves on the Prince George’s County Health Department Board for HIV/AIDS affected infants. Her voice was among the forerunners for adequate and appropriate services for older adolescents living in the foster care system. Her vision and percept help to shape and cement current services within the Maryland Public Child Welfare system. Her interest in Kinship Care and Grandparents in the re-parenting role was ignited as she worked with Friend Medical on a research project that focused on after school programs with in inner city Baltimore. She worked as a parent facilitator, but quickly found that the group meetings were composed of more grand parents who were again in parenting roles to their grand and great-grand children. This interest was further sparked as she worked as a group facilitator with families who were affected by HIV/AIDS. Currently, she works to help social work BSW and MSW interns at varying levels of study to learn and execute social work skills, using Family Preservation Services arena as a training foundation. Her interest in optimal family functioning and the execution of services to empower the whole person continues to be her core values. She determines that her future endeavor will include study of the impact of anticipatory and unresolved grief, and their affects on effective parenting.
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