Betsy Keefer Smalley

-->Betsy Keefer Smalley co-author of the award-winning Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past has 36 years of experience in child welfare adoption placement post adoption services and training. She works presently as a Training Manager in the Foster Care and Adoption Training Programs for the Institute for Human Services in Columbus Ohio and is a Senior Program Analyst with the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare. She has created curricula for...See more

-->Betsy Keefer Smalley co-author of the award-winning Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past has 36 years of experience in child welfare adoption placement post adoption services and training. She works presently as a Training Manager in the Foster Care and Adoption Training Programs for the Institute for Human Services in Columbus Ohio and is a Senior Program Analyst with the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare. She has created curricula for parallel support groups for post adoptive parents and their children as well as an extensive Preservice Training Curriculum for Foster Adoptive and Kinship Parents used by several statewide systems for foster and adoptive parents. She was involved in the development and delivery of Ohio's Adoption Assessor training mandated for all Ohio adoption/foster care workers by adoption reform legislation. See less