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| Frederick H. Strieder, PhD, MSSA is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work where he is the Director of Family Connections for the Ruth Young Center, an interdisciplinary center dedicated to promoting safety, health, and well-being for children, families, and communities through community and clinical services, research, education, and advocacy. Over the past twenty-nine years: (1) he has provided mental health and child welfare services as a practitioner, supervisor and administrator; (2) he has served as a committee chair and board member on local, regional, and national levels regarding the development of outcome evaluation strategies and program development specific to treatment foster; (3) he has conducted extensive consultation, supervision, and training in the practice of family therapy; (4) he has developed best practice models for children and families who have been the victims of maltreatment, and (5) he has developed community-based service models to prevent neglect and serve grandparent-headed households. Dr. Strieder was the Principal Investigator of a federally funded project designed to provide respite services for families who have adopted children with special needs. He directs a neglect prevention community-based program to serve families. He administrated grant and foundation funded treatment programs to serve grandparent headed households, families who struggle to care for their children, and sexually victimized children and their families. He also developed a state funded treatment foster program that served children and youth with serious psychological problems, often the victims of chronic abuse and neglect. Publications relate t the needs of children placed in the child welfare system, program development for victims of maltreatment, and clinical practice related to children who have been victims of maltreatment. Dr. Strieder is interested in the development of interdisciplinary clinic and community-based service models of service for families who struggle to meet the needs of their children. He is also interested in the development of services for grandparents who raise grandchildren, who often are victims of abuse and neglect, with particular focus on the intergenerational dynamics of these families. |
