Sue Ascione
New Castle,PA
Summary
Training Specialist with extensive leadership experience in leading collaborative projects, building high-performance teams and performance management and curriculum design. Delivers training and technical assistance to child advocacy centers, multidisciplinary teams and boards of directors. Sets standard of excellence and exceeds job requirements.
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
Training Specialist
Northeast Regional CAC
03.2016 - Current
- Responsible for providing training and technical assistance to child advocacy centers, multidisciplinary teams, and state chapters in the Northeast Region of the U.S
- Provide training and technical assistance on specific topics such as MDT Development, Leadership Development, Board Development, Strategic Planning, Secondary Traumatic Stress and Victim Advocacy.
- Provide oversight and management of special projects
Executive Director
CAC of Lawrence County
03.2000 - 03.2016
- Coordinate and facilitate the multidisciplinary team response to child abuse intervention and prevention in Lawrence County, including the forensic interviews and medical evaluations
- Maintain collaborative relationships with partner agencies of the CAC
- Implement and operate evidence-based, research-based primary prevention programs for at-risk families and their children in Lawrence County; Nurse-Family Partnership, Parents As Teachers, and Early Head Start (home-based)
- Oversee fiscal management of the CAC programs with the fiscal department
- Plan and obtain funding for additional programs to meet community needs; State grants, private foundation grants, and fundraising events
- Work cooperatively with the CAC Board of Directors in developing a strategic plan, strategic fundraising, and program development
- Maintain healthy working relationships with Senior Management of Jameson Health System, including the CEO, CFO, Quality Management, and Human Resources
- Provide reflective supervision on a bi-weekly basis for program supervisors of the CAC’s prevention programs
- Participate in task forces and boards of directors in Lawrence County to promote community collaboration and CAC education
- Professional Training/Education that includes topics such as; The Multidisciplinary Response to Child Abuse, Mandated Reporting of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence and its Effects on Children, Adult Survivors of CSA, Sexual Abuse of Children, The Medical Response to Domestic Violence Victims, Confidentiality, and Crisis Intervention
Assistant Director
Women’s Shelter/Rape Crisis Center of Lawrence County
10.1996 - 03.2000
- Promoted the WS/RCC through public speaking opportunities regarding the organizations’ programs and services
- Professional Education/Training that included topics such as child abuse and neglect, Domestic Violence and its Effects on Children, Why Women Stay, Medical Advocacy for DV victims, Confidentiality, Crisis Intervention with Victims.
Program Coordinator
Women’s Shelter/Rape Crisis Center of Lawrence County
05.1993 - 10.1996
- Provided supervision of direct service staff that provided individual and group counseling services for domestic violence and sexual assault child/adult survivors
- Monitored day-to-day operations of the emergency shelter
- Provided individual and group counseling for adult survivors of CSA
- Public Speaking/Professional Education
Children’s Counselor
Women’s Shelter/Rape Crisis Center of Lawrence County
03.1987 - 05.1993
- Provided comprehensive services to child and adolescent victims of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse
- Planned and conducted parenting groups for emergency shelter residents and the community
- Supervised child care workers, volunteers, and student interns.
Creative Arts Therapist
Human Services Center
06.1985 - 03.1987
- Provided music and art therapy, and other groups for chronic mentally ill adults in a therapeutic activities program
- Professional
- Memberships Pennsylvania Chapter of CACs and MDTs
Education
MS - Project Management, Non
New England College
Henniker, NHBS - Music Therapy
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA1984
Skills
- Subject Matter Expert
- Consultation and Advisement
- Team Leadership
- Client Engagement
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Systems Thinking
- Sustainability Consulting
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Cultural Awareness
- Content Management Expertise
- Strategic Planning
Accomplishments
Co-Authored an article on team training; Improving teamwork in multidisciplinary cross-sector teams: Adaption and pilot testing of a team training for Child Advocacy Center team. Published in Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 153, October 2023
Co-Presented at National Children's Alliance Leadership (2022) Conference; Enhanced Team Development for CACs/MDTs
Co-Presented at Huntsville Symposium (2019): Tragedy to Triumph; How Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State University Child Sexual Abuse Scandal Resulted in CSA Reforms in Pennsylvania
Presented at National Children's Alliance Leadership
Conference (2017)Continuous Practice Improvement Program for CACs/MDTs
Chair, leading a national collaborative subcommittee focused on multidisciplinary team leadership in child advocacy centers
Project Manager/Facilitator for the Leadership, Exchange, and Coaching project at the Northeast Regional CAC
Affiliations
American Professional Society on Child Abuse (APSAC)
Communities That Care (Prevention Coalition)
Lawrence County Drug and Alcohol Commission, Inc. Board of Directors
Timeline
Training Specialist
Northeast Regional CAC
03.2016 - Current
Executive Director
CAC of Lawrence County
03.2000 - 03.2016
Assistant Director
Women’s Shelter/Rape Crisis Center of Lawrence County
10.1996 - 03.2000
Program Coordinator
Women’s Shelter/Rape Crisis Center of Lawrence County
05.1993 - 10.1996
Children’s Counselor
Women’s Shelter/Rape Crisis Center of Lawrence County
03.1987 - 05.1993
Creative Arts Therapist
Human Services Center
06.1985 - 03.1987
MS - Project Management, Non
New England College
BS - Music Therapy
Slippery Rock University
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