A SAMPLE OF RECENT FACULTY FOR WHOLE CLIENT/WHOLE ADVOCATE INCLUDES:


CLAE's Ellen Hemley - bio here.

CLAE's Zenobia Lai - bio here.

And...

Jane Honoroff has been a practitioner in the mental health and social work field since 1969 and a mediator since 1984. She is a founding partner in The Mediation Group, and also conducts a private psychotherapy practice. Jane spent a number of years at the Somerville Mental Health Clinic working on a child abuse treatment team, has worked in Boston area hospitals providing in-patient psychiatric and medical social work services, and continues to provide supervision to social work clinicians and students. Jane also conducts weekly consultations to advocates at Greater Boston Legal Services.

Patricio Rossi is a staff attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services in Lynn, MA. Having begun his career at NLS under a grant he received from the Berkeley Law Foundation, Patricio now focuses primarily on subsidized housing issues. Under the grant, he coordinated the design, implementation and operation of a "Lawyer for the Day" program in the Northeast Housing Court. The program provides the opportunity to receive legal assistance to all indigent tenants in the Court. A veteran of several CLAE trainings, Patricio is a 2003 graduate of the Northeastern University School of Law, where he received one of the inaugural Public Interest Law Scholar awards, and a 1995 graduate of Brown University.

Since 1988, Ruth Whitney (a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and of Simmons School of Social Work) has had a private practice in Arlington, MA, where she sees individuals, couples, and families in psychotherapy. She continues to do Guardian ad Litem work and has been appointed in eight Massachusetts counties by several dozen judges. She also consults to divorcing families and serves as a parenting coordinator. Ruth is on the Institutional Review Board of Mount Auburn Hospital and the Executive Board of the Cambridge Family and Children’s Services Agency. She is past president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and the Cambridge-Somerville Area Board of the Department of Social Services. She is a long-time faculty member of the Trial Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School and has been a consultant for forensic issues to the Couples and Families Clinic at Cambridge Hospital and Greater Boston Legal Services. Ruth is a frequent teacher and speaker on topics related to divorcing families and the social worker in the Court.