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       Dorothy Haskell, MSW, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who serves as the project director both for the university’s Child Advocacy Studies (CAST) program and FORECAST (Foundations for Outreach through Experiential Child Advocacy Studies), a federally funded SAMHSA grant program. FORECAST focuses on disseminating Problem Based Learning-Simulation curricula throughout the country to help create a more trauma-informed workforce. She regularly teaches Traumatic Stress in Childhood and Adolescence and facilitates the CAST internship seminar. She also maintains a small caseload, serving individual clients with trauma histories.

       Ms. Haskell received her Master's degree in Social Work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. She is certified in a number of different evidence-based treatment models for children and youth with trauma histories, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Integrated Treatment for Complex Trauma (ITCT) and Alternatives for Families: a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT). She is an active member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, both in her role as project director and serving on the secondary traumatic stress workgroup.