Celeste Nichols, M.Ed., L.P.C
Celeste worked in Child Welfare for over three decades. Prior to her retirement in December 2023, she was Placement Unit Supervisor at Licking County Job & Family Services in Newark, Ohio. During her tenure at LCJFS, she supervised the agency’s foster care, kinship care, and adoption programs, including their Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruiters.
Wendy Flowers Ph.D
Wendy provided psychological assessment and treatment services for over thirty years to foster, adoptive, and special needs children and teens, and their parents and caregivers. She worked collaboratively with children’s services agencies, juvenile courts, private group homes and foster care networks, hospitals and behavioral health clinics, and schools. Now retired from clinical practice, she works on training foster care, adoption, and mental health providers.
Barbara VanSlyck, MSEd
Barbara served as Director of Post-Adoption Services for Parenthesis Family advocates in Columbus, Ohio for over 20 years, where she developed and provided pre- and post-adoption services and trainings for parents and professionals. Since moving to Florida she has continued trainings for adoption professionals and is currently working with Manatee Children services in the GAP (Grandparents raising grandchildren) program.