PROFESSIONAL SERVICES:
Individual, Adolescent and Family Therapy, Lectures; Employee Assistance; Psycho-social Evaluations, Grantmanship

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Substance Abuse, Physical and Sexual Abuse; Domestic Violence; Adoption; Individual, Marital and Family Therapy; Child and Adolescent Development; Organizational Behavior and Design; Stress Management; Foster Care and Relative/Kinship Care

EDUCATION:
1982-Doctor of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania
1976-Master of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania
1972-Bachelor of Social Work, Temple University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• PRIVATE PRACTICE, Philadelphia, PA 1986 to Present Individual and Family Therapy
• CONSULTANT TO: (Present)
  • New Jersey Department of Family and Youth Services (Case Consultation and Therapist)
  • New Jersey Adoption Resource Centers (Case Consultation and Therapist
  • Philadelphia Society for Services to Children (Case Consultation and Family Therapist)
  • Amtrak Employee Assistant Program (Individual and Family Therapist, Case Consultation and Family Evaluations)
  • McNeil Pharmaceutical Employee Assistance Program (Case Consultation, Individual and Family Therapist)
  • Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (Training and Case Consultation)
  • Mt. Airy Church of God in Christ (Consultant and Speaker)
  • New Covenant Church (Family Therapist)
  • University of Pennsylvania Faculty/Staff Assistance Program (Program Consultant to Employee Assistance Program)
  • Chester County Children and Youth Services (Case Consultant, Staff Training, Family Evaluations and Expert Witness in Foster Care and Adoption)
  • Philadelphia Department of Human Services (Consulting Therapist to Protective Services, Adoption and Family Services)
  • Philadelphia Parking Authority (Employee Assistance Services)
  • Juvenile Justice Center (Case Consultations)
• FAIRMOUNT INSTITUTE, Philadelphia, PA 1982-1986
  Program Director, Adolescent Unit
  Key Responsibilities
  Developed and implemented program policies and services for a 31-bed inpatient Adolescent Unit; overall administrative responsibility for an interdisciplinary staff of over 75 employees, budget planning and fiscal management.
• ABSW PHILADELPHIA CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT CENTER
  Philadelphia, PA 1978-1982
  Executive Director
  Key Responsibilities
  Proposed and implemented a descriptive study of abusive and neglected families in cooperation with both the City of Philadelphia Services and the National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect. Staff recruitment, orientation and evaluation; design and implementation of policy and procedures; employee benefits; insurance and compensation plans; staff supervision and training; proposal writing and grantmanship; chairing and staff Board activities; budget planning.

Principle Investigator:
Federal grant from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention to The Grand Central Kinship Care Program, 1999-2001
Federal grant from the National Adoption Center to the New Jersey Black Adoption Cosortium, 1994-1996 Federal grant from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (NCCAN) to the Philadelphia Child Abuse/Neglect Center, 1981
Federal grant from the National Center of Child Abuse and Neglect tot he Alliance of Black SocialWorkers, 1978-1980

SPEAKING AND TRAINING ACTIVITIES:

• Local Activities
  Community Behavioral Health, “Adolescent Mental Health and Substance Abuse: A Family Systems Approach”, Philadelphia, PA, February, 2005
  
  Alliance of Black Social Workers Conference, “Assessing Families for Kinship Care”,
  Philadelphia, PA, March, 2004
  
  Rutger's University School of Social Work, "Transracial Adoption Issues for the Child", New Brunswick, New Jersey, June 2002
  
  Families with Children from China Adoption Conference, "Parent's tasks in Transracial Adoptions", March 2001
  
  Children's Choice Conference, "Clinical Issues for Kinship Families", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 2000
  
  New Jersey Division of Youth and Families Regional Conference, "The Impact of Multiple Placements on Attachment", Hammonton, New Jersey, June 1999
  
  National Adoption Center, "Sibling Issues in Adoptions and Foster Placements", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1998
  
  Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, Annual Conference, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, "Keynote Speaker", April 1997
  
  Pennsylvania State Annual Adoption Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, "Keynote Speaker", July 1996
  
  Pennsylvania State Annual Adoption Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, "Clinical Issues In Kinship and Relative Adoptions", July 1995
  
  Region III Office of the Administration of Children and Youth Services Minority Adoption Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia, "Assessing an Adoptive Parent's Cultural Competence", June 1995
  
  Temple University School of Social Administration, "Clinical Issues in Transracial Adoptions," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1994
  
  University of Pennsylvania School of socialWork, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1994 "Family Preservation Through Adoption"
  
  Chestnut Hill Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1993, "Building Self Esteem"
  
  National Adoption Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 1993, "Special Needs Issues of the Older Adopted Child"
  
  Governor's and Philadelphia's City Council's Conference on Relative Care-Givers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October, 1993, "lnter-generational Issues in Kinship Families"
  
  Supportive Child/Adult Network, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1992, "Characteristics and Profiles of Co-Dependency"
  
  Charter Fairmount Institute Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1991, "identifying Childhood Sexual Abuse in Adolescents"
  
  Southern New Jersey National Counselor's Association Pennsauken, New Jersey, September 1991, "Stress Management Techniques and Approaches"
  
  Women's Christian Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1991, "Transitional Issues for Adopted Children and Adoptive Families"
  
• National Activities
  Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Olympia Snowe and Generations United Second
  Intergenerational Action Agenda, “ Transitional Issues for Relative Caregivers”,
  Washington, DC, January, 2005
  
  2005 Family Group Decision Making by The American Humane Society, “ Using
  Family Group Decision Making with Kinship Families”, Long Beach , CA, June.2005
  
  National Abandoned Infants Resource Center Substance Abuse Conference, “Substance
  Abuse Issues In Kinship Families”, Chicago, IL, September, 2004
  
  29th Conference of the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC), "Establishing a Working Relationship Between the Birth Parent and Relative Caregiver in Kinship Adoptions", Vancouver, Canada, July 2003
  
  28th Conference of the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) - Keynote Speaker, "Supporting Adoptive Families", Chicago, Illinois, August 2002
  
  Child Welfare League of America's National Kinship Care Conference, "Assesing Families for Kinship Care", Chicago, Illinois, July 2001
  
  Harvard University Medical School of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Adoption Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "The Trauma of Being Adopted As An Older Child", June 2000
  
  Child Welfare League of America National Kinship Care Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, "Intervening with Kinship Families", August 1999
  
  Children's Bureau 5'h Annual National Child Welfare Conference, Washington, DC, "Overview of Kinship Care", February, 1998
  
  29'th Annual National Association of Black Social Workers Conference, "Transracial Adoptions", Detroit, Michigan, March, 1997
  
  26'th National and international Foster Parents Association Conference, Los Angeles, California, May 1996, "Clinical Overview of Kinship Care"
  
  22'nd North American Council's Conference on Adoptable Children (NACAC), August 1996, "Keynote Speaker"
  
  UCLA School of Social Work, Los Angeles, California, February 1995, "Assessing A Family's Appropriateness in Kinship and Relative Adoptions"
  
  Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services Kinship Conference, Los Angeles, California, April 1995, "Assets of Relative Adoptions" - Keynote Speaker
  
  North American Council on Adoptive Children (NACAC), Norfolk, Virginia, August ·1995, "An Institute on Transracial Adoptions"
  
  North American Council on Adoptive Children (NACAC), San Jose, California, August 1994, "Adolescent Resistance to the Adoption Process"
  
  Utah State Department of Children's Services, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 1994, "Preparing the Adoptive Family and Child for Transracial Adoptions"
  
  Adoptive Families Association Conference, Cornell University, April ~993, "Treating Child Sexual Abuse in Adopted Adolescents"
  
  North American Council on Adoptive Children, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 1993, "Assessing a Family's Ability to Parent Cross-Racially"
  
• International Activities
  2005 Second Annual International Post Adoption Conference, “Keynote: Guidelines for Practice in Transracial Adoptions”., Dublin , Ireland, February, 2005

  Post Adoption Centre Conference, “ Race, Attachment and Identity”, London , England,
  February,2004

  International Adoption Conference - Keynote Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, "Issues for the Birth Child of Adoptive Parents", February 2003
  
  Hamshire County Council of Social Services Kinship Care Conference, Winchester, England, "An Overview of Kinship Care", November 2002
  
  The Family Welfare Association Kinship Care Conference, London, England, "Therapeutic Issues in Kinship Families and Assesing Families for Kinship Care", May 2002
  
  13th International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Durham, South Africa, "Breaking the Cycle of Abuse Through Kinship Care: Assesing Relatives for Kinship Care", September 2000
  
  North American Council on Adoptive Children (NACAC), "Transracial Adoptions", Toronto, Canada, August 1997
  
  North American Council on Adoptive Children, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, August 1982, "identifying and Treating Childhood Sexual Abuse in Placed or Adopted Children"
  
  The Ninth International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Chicago, Illinois, August 1992, "identifying and Treating Childhood Sexual Abuse in Adolescents"
  
  University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland, April 1992, "Collaborative Research in Childhood Sexual Abuse"
  
  Ninth International Congress on Child Abuse/Neglect, Rio DeJaniero, Brazil, September 1989, "Child Maltreatment: Implications for Family Therapy"
  
  Third International Congress on Abuse/Neglect, University of Amsterdam, Holland, The Netherlands, 1981, "A Description of Child Abuse/Neglect in Black Families: Preliminary Findings"
  
• Media Activities
  Sacremento Bee Newspaper,Sacremento, California, Interview: "The Impact of Kinship Care on the Relative Caregiver and Child", August, 2002
  
  The Lost Angeles Times Newspaper, Los Angeles, California, Interview: "Special Needs of Children in Transracial Adoptions", July 2002
  
  The Queen Latifah Show, New York, New York, "Stepparent - Stepchildren Conflicts and Solutions", January 2000
  
  The Queen Latifah Show, New York, New York, "Grandparents Raising Children", December 1999
  
  Montel Williams Show, New York, New York, June, 1998, "Transitional Adoptions"
  
  EVEN-TV (San Francisco, California. Adoption Today), "Parenting Tasks in Transracial Adoptions", June 1998.
  
  PBS-TV (Public Broadcast Station) of New Jersey, "Transracial Adoptions", April 1997
  
  Montel Williams Show, New York, New York, March, 1996, "Families in Conflict Over the Children"
  
  Montel Williams Show, New York, New York, October 1995, "Transracial Adoptions"
  
  NICKELODEON Cable TV Nick-News, New York, New York, February 1995, "Children in Transracial Homes"
  
  WPVI-TV Channel 6, Larry Kane/The Bulletin, "Transracial Adoption", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 1994
  
  A.M. Philadelphia WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 1994, "The Double Life of O.J. Simpson As An African American"
  
  WHYY-91 FM Radio. Dr. Dan Gottlieb's Show. Voices in the Family, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 1994, "Transracial Issues in Adoption"
  
  WHYY-91 FM Radio, Dr. Dan Gottlieb's Show, Voices in the Family, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1993, "Transitional Issues in Adoptive Families"
  
  WCOJ-1422 AM Radio Community Service Program, Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsylvania, April 1992, "Child Development Issues Confronting Day Care"
  
  Family Focus. WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 1992, "Parenting and Identifying Issues in Transracial Adoptions"
  
  WPEB-AM Radio, Jim. Baker Community Service Radio Show. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania February 1992, "Minimizing Adolescent Resistance"
  
  AM Philadelphia. WPVI-N, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1991, "Parenting Issues in Transracial Adoptions"
  
  SCOJ-1420 AM Radio Community Service Program, Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsylvania, November 1991, "Parenting Issues in Transracial Foster Care"
  
  The Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1991 Interview: Special Needs Issues of Bi-Racial Children"
  
  WCOJ-1420 AM Radio Community Service Program, Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsylvania October 1991, "Child Development Issues Confronting Day Care Centers"
  
  WDAS-FM Community Service Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania August 1990, "Cross Racial Adoptions"
  
  People are Talking. KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 1985, "Adoption: Disruption Adoptions"
  
  AM Philadelphia. WPVI-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 1985, "Adolescent Suicide"
  
  WUSL-FM Radio Community Service Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October, 1984, "Causes end Treatment of Adolescent Suicide"
  
  Horizons with Edie Huggins. KYW-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1983, "Working with Abused Adolescents"
  
  WDAS-FM Community Service Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 1980, "Community Role in Preventing Child Abuse/Neglect"
  
  The Morning Show. KWV-TV, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 1980, "Causes of Child Maltreatment"
  

PUBLICATIONS:
Crumbley, J. (2004) “ Kinship Care: Relative Caregivers Speak Out”(Videotape). Key Productions, Philadelphia, PA

Crumbley, J. (2004) “ Kinship Care: Youth and Teens Speak Out” (Videotape). Key Productions, Philadelphia, PA

Crumbley, J. (2004) “Kinship Care: Birth mothers Speak Out” (Videotape). Key Productions, Philadelphia, PA

Crumbley, J. (2004) “Kinship Care : Unique Clinical Issues” (Videotape). The Kinship Center , Salinas, CA