Heather Teter

Dedicated social worker, experienced leader, board member, and business owner with over 30 years of strong commitment to serving disadvantaged youth and adults, including homeless, marginalized youth and special-needs populations. Documented success at overcoming challenges of limited resources and financial constraints to design high-quality, cost-effective and comprehensive service offerings. Skilled at building community support, key coalitions and strategic interagency partnerships. Backed by exceptional strengths in program, personnel management and training, and clinical case management as well as a unique perspective gained from decades of work with diverse populations. Highly motivated professional with 31 years of entrepreneurial and management experience. Skillfully creates and maintains professional and loyal relationships with co-workers, staff and clients while managing administrative and sales employees. Comfortable working independently as manager and leader and as collaborative team member. Applies business acumen and experience and exercises decisive judgment to meet and exceed organizational goals. Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Committed job seeker with a history of meeting company needs with consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

• Licensed Social Worker
• Certified School Social Worker

• NASW National Conference, June 2015, Ethical Challenges in Inter-Professional Practice: A Team Approach, Co-Presenter
• PAIS Conference, November 2015, Strategies to meet individual student needs across settings in residential schools, Co-Presenter
• NASW-PA & PAUSWE 2016 Conference, October 2016, Inter-professional Collaborative Practice: Forging Solutions to Complex Societal Challenges, Co-Presenter
• PASSWP Pennsylvania Annual Conference, September 2023, Stories Save Lives: A workshop to help build your toolkit for working with teens suffering from emotional and mental health problems, Presenter

Teens4TeensHelp, October 2022, Board Member responsible for attending regular Board meetings, fundraising, building connections and planning for the launch of the second phase of this organization’s programming.

• The Compass Project: Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Targeted Interventions, August 2017, Milton Hershey School, Co-Presenter, Milton Hershey School, Education & Student Life employee training.
• Sharing our experiences as resources, November 2020, Milton Hershey School, Milton Hershey School, Fall Family Weekend, virtual offering for families.
• Social Work, Parents, Building a Network of Support, November 2020, Milton Hershey School, Milton Hershey School, virtual offering for parents.
• Wellness workshop, May 2020, Milton Hershey School, Spring Family Weekend, virtual offering for parents.
• Mindfulness: A health and wellness workshop, March 2021, Milton Hershey School, Winter Family Weekend, virtual offering for families.
• The Impact of Stress on Social Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic, April 2021, Elizabethtown College, CEU offering for Licensed Social Workers.
• Finding happiness in times of stress, May 2021, Milton Hershey School, Spring Family Weekend, virtual offering for families.

2019 Elizabethtown College Social Work Department Alumni of the Year

Teachers who engage: Advancing the movement toward successful parent partnerships in K-12 education, Doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California, 2021, http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/; http://proquest.usc16731

• 2019 Alumni of the Year recipient