Betty Conger is a graduate of the
University of Michigan School of Social Work and currently
coordinates Henry Ford Behavioral Health’s Maplegrove Children
and Family Programs. She has provided leadership in the
development and implementation of a continuum of evidence- based
family prevention and support services for the Maplegrove
Center. Betty and Kathy Walton designed, implemented and managed
the award-winning Maplegrove Children’s program providing
educational support groups for children from pre-school through
high school who live in high risk families. In addition, they
developed and facilitated over a hundred training programs for
Maplegrove volunteers and staff as well as for many
youth-serving professionals in the juvenile justice court
systems and residential programs, schools, transitional housing
projects, foster and adoption agencies, family transitional
housing programs, afterschool latchkey services, domestic
violence centers, community coalitions, and family service
agencies. She has partnered with the National Association for
Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) to facilitate workshops in local,
state, and national programs to help others initiate educational
support groups based on the SAMSHA Children’s Program Kit. Betty
supervises staff and MSW students at Maplegrove Center. The
Source, the newsletter of The National Abandoned Infants
Assistance Resource Center (University of California Berkley)
published Betty’s article: Substance Abuse Affected Children,
Vol. 14 Spring 2005. She is a licensed social worker and
certified prevention consultant. |
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Kim Davis
is an Educational Consultant at the Indiana Resource Center for
Autism at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community located
at Indiana University, Bloomington. Kim has been involved with
education since 1972 and with the Indiana Institute on Disability
and Community since 1977. Areas of expertise and interest focus on
positive behavior supports, teaching strategies, circles of support,
and parent information to provide better support on behalf of
individuals across the autism spectrum. She also provides training
on movement difference and its impact on individuals with autism,
the value of motor activities for all young children, the link
between behavior and communication, and community inclusion through
leisure activities. Kim presents at local, state, and national
conferences and workshops. Although Kim has experience with all
ages, her major emphasis is on early childhood and elementary age
students. |
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Sharon Simmons
is currently completing her PhD at the University of
Kentucky, where her dissertation research focuses
on bullying
prevention and intervention strategies in schools. She has
been assistant professor of social work at the University of
Southern Indiana since 2006, and coordinates the school social
work specialization. Prior to coming to USI, Sharon was a school
social worker in Kentucky for nearly 15 years. |
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Kathy Walton
received her degree in Special Education from the University of
Michigan, worked with emotionally
 disturbed children and then
received additional certification for working with the learning
impaired. Kathy and Betty Conger designed, implemented, and manage
the award-winning Maplegrove Children’s program providing
educational support groups for children from pre-school through
high
school who live in high risk families. In addition they developed
and facilitated over a hundred training programs for Maplegrove
volunteers and staff as well as for many youth-serving professionals
in the juvenile justice court systems and residential programs,
schools, transitional housing projects, foster and adoption
agencies, family transitional housing programs, afterschool latchkey
services, domestic violence centers,
community coalitions, and
family service agencies. She has partnered with the National
Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) to facilitate
workshops in local, state, and national programs to help others
initiate educational support groups and learn to use the SAMSHA
Children’s Program Kit. Past work experience also includes: Teacher,
Special Education Classroom Self Contained Emotionally Disturbed and
Learning Disabled, Facilitating: Step Parenting, Step Teen,
Developing Capable Young People, Developing Self Esteem, the
B.A.B.E.S. program, and Maplegrove Children’s Program Coordinator.
Currently she works as the Special Projects Coordinator for Henry
Ford Health Center Maplegrove Community Education and has chaired a
Tri County Basic Drug Prevention Conference for the past six years.
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