Contract Trainer
Lori Parker has been training competency-based child welfare curricula for DU since 1996 as a staff and contract trainer.
Ms. Parker has substantial experience as a child welfare worker in both children’s and youth services. As a member of the Jefferson County Intensive Family Treatment Team, she provided individual and family therapy to preserve or reunify families. In addition, Ms. Parker has extensive experience in child welfare and juvenile justice settings, with particular emphasis on special needs children and their families. She receives outstanding evaluations for her training skills and her considerable expertise. She has trained Colorado’s mandated New Worker Core and other content areas, including family-centered practice, attachment, grief and loss, child development, and family therapy with high-risk families.
