Kate Ginn, LICSW

Kate Ginn, LICSW, grew up in Portland, Oregon before obtaining her BA in Human Development from Boston College and her Masters in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. She has previously served on the national leadership team for Safe Families for Children, and as the Social Work Supervisor at the Center for Law and Social Work. Kate is passionate about helping children who have experienced early adversity and supporting caregivers to strengthen and preserve the family unit. While at Safe Families, Kate developed Safe Families PLUS (Providing Lasting Unconditional Support), a pilot mentoring program for youth aging out of foster care. She is a certified trainer in Trust-Based Relational Interventions (TBRI) for working with children who have experienced trauma. Since August 2018, Kate has been the Help Me Grow Program Manager in Pierce County, Washington, where she is facilitating a community process for improving supports for parents with infants and toddlers to prevent foster care involvement. As a Pritzker Fellow with the National Collaborative on Infants and Toddlers, Kate is one of thirteen fellows nationally working to improve early childhood systems in their communities.