National Resource Center for Youth Services

Gwendolyn Downing, LPC

Senior Training Coordinator, NRCYS

Gwen is a Senior Training Coordinator at the National Resource Center and oversees the fee-based training program. She has almost twenty years of experience in trauma responsive practice and is passionate about creating a world that prevents as many sources of trauma as possible, and that is equipped to respond to what is not preventable as effectively as possible. She does systems work, program and project development, resource development, and provides training and consultation.

Gwen has a B.S. in Biology and M.S. in Psychological Services from East Central University of Oklahoma.

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Susan Kee, MSW

Senior Program Development Specialist, NRCYS

Susan’s passion for compassionate and quality services to families, children, and youth in Oklahoma drives her commitment for program and staff development. Her systems knowledge in child welfare is extensive, aided by 28 years of child welfare service including permanency planning, child protective services, family centered services, foster care, quality assurance, and policy development. Susan researches and develops relevant and timely child welfare curriculum to help support, train, and develop dedicated child welfare staff. Susan supervises the Child Welfare Training Team for NRCYS. She received her master’s degree in social work from the University of Oklahoma.

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