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New Jersey Child Welfare Training Partnership Staff

Claudine Chiarmonte

Claudine Chiarmonte, LCSW, MSW, CEAP
Program Manager
New Jersey Child Welfare Training Partnership
Center for Child Advocacy

Education: MSW, Yeshiva University; BA, Montclair State University

Office:
Legge House
RM 32, 3rd Floor

Phone:
973-655-3290

E mail: Chiarmonte

Hours:
M- F
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Biographical sketch: Claudine has considerable experience in child welfare, organizational development and program management. At MSU she oversees a budget of $1.2 million in addition to supervising a professional staff charged with providing training to workers of the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) in the northern counties of New Jersey. Prior Ms. Chiarmonte was the Director of CONCERN Employee Assistant Program (EAP) at Atlantic Health-Morristown Memorial Hospital in Morristown. NJ.  She has developed and taught several courses on adoption and is on the advisory council for a Post Graduate Certificate on Adoption Studies.

Adrienne Millican, MPA
Assistant Program Manager
New Jersey Child Welfare Training Partnership
Center for Child Advocacy

Education: MPA, Rutgers University; BA, Rutgers University

Office:
Legge House
RM 31, 3rd floor

Phone:
973-655-3290

E mail: Millican

Hours:
M- F
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

 

Biographical Sketch: Prior to MSU, Adrienne served as a Project Manager at UMDNJ in the Preventative Medicine & Community Department; as training and recruitment consultant for Gateway Maternal & Child Network in Newark, providing support for the NJ Immunization Information System (NJIIS); and as a Quality Improvement consultant for the Pediatric Council for Research and Education (PCORE) in Trenton. She has presented at two CDC sponsored National Immunization conferences and has published “Using a Registry to Improve Immunization” in the July 2006 Pediatric Annals.

Gloria Rodriguez
Program Assistant
New Jersey Child Welfare Training Partnership
Center for Child Advocacy

Office:
Legge House
RM 31, 3rd floor

Phone: 973-655-3290

E mail: Rodriguez G

Hours: M- F
8:30 am - 4:30 pm


Barbara Rookey, MSW, LSW
Training Coordinator
New Jersey Child Welfare Training Partnership
Center for Child Advocacy

Education: MSW, Monmouth University; BA, Le Moyne College

Office:
Legge House
RM 21, 2nd floor

Phone:
973-655-3290

E mail:
Rookey

Hours:
M- F
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Biographical Sketch: Barbara originally joined the NJCWTP team as a part time Training Consultant.  She holds master’s degrees in Social Work and Pastoral Studies.  With over 20 years experience in child and family education, her areas of interest include child sexual abuse and international social work and child welfare.  She most recently served as Adoption Coordinator at Harvest of Hope Family Services, Inc. in Somerset, and in a prior position served as New Jersey Area Director for Downey Side, Inc., a full service adoption agency located in Point Pleasant Beach.  She has also been an adjunct professor at Monmouth University. 

 

 

Christin Fontanella
Graduate Student Worker

Office: Legge House, RM 30, 3rd floor
Phone: 973-655-3290
E mail:
Hours:
Wednesday  8:30- 4:30
Thursday 8:30-4:30
Friday    8:30-1:30

 

 

Ben Friedman
Graduate Student Worker

Office: Legge House, RM 30, 3rd floor
Phone: 973-655-3290
E mail:
Hours:
Monday     9:00-4:30
Thursday    9:00-4:30
Friday        9:00-3:00