Welcome to our Newest Mother Bear! Mother Bear CAN hires Family Education Specialist
We are excited to welcome Emily DeSerio, LCSW, to our Den staff as our new Family Education Specialist.
Emily will oversee and manage the development of our Family Hope Line, Mother Bear CAN's family support warmline. Emily will also help us develop our online and community-based Family Den programs.
Emily grew to be a Mother Bear long before she could identify it with a name.
After losing a close friend who struggled with mental health challenges, Emily decided to dedicate her career to supporting others facing mental health challenges, first as a case manager and then, after graduate school, as a therapist and hospital social worker.
Over the next 10 years, Emily worked in a variety of mental health settings. During this time, she began to shift her focus away from treating illness and toward encouraging wellness.
In addition to pursuing holistic, recovery-oriented approaches to ease emotional suffering, Emily has an ardent interest in suicide prevention and bearing witness to those who have lost loved ones to suicide.
Garnering purpose from lived experience and from working with families in distress, Emily is wholeheartedly committed to supporting, encouraging, and educating her fellow Mother Bears on their paths toward thriving.
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