WELCOME BACK, LORI!
Lori Madrid is on her way back soon from a sabbatical. Cheers to professional stability and the profound mind shifts that come from a heartfelt, hard-earned healthy break!
Let’s welcome her back with a blog in her honor…
Our CEO, founder and head visionary Lori Madrid, MSW, LCSW is on a sabbatical with absolute faith in her crackerjack team to keep the well-oiled machine that is Everybody Matters running smoothly while she is out. I am a friend of Everybody Matters so (with permission) I thought I would sneak onto this page and tell you a bit about our fearless chief—a pioneer and thought leader in social work and trauma counseling, and all-around awesome individual. What is up with the LMNOP letters after Lori’s name? That signifies she is a lifelong learner, earning a master’s degree in Social Work (MSW), in addition to acing even more training to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), constantly scouring the industry for innovative tools and techniques to help everybody thrive.
Where was Lori before Everybody Matters?
First guess might be runway model or Top Chef, but no…Lori’s Social Work odyssey launched a long history of caring for people as a licensed clinical social worker and certified trauma professional. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at multiple universities and is a member of ASU’s Community Advisory Board for the School of Social Work. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Social Work at University of Wyoming and her master’s degree in Social Work at Hunter College Graduate School of Social Work in New York City.
For more than 25 years, she has provided therapeutic services to a wide range of clients and settings, including families who are experiencing homelessness in Spanish Harlem; children in the foster care system in the South Bronx; groups, families, individuals and children in psychiatric residential treatment; and numerous students in the Title 1 School System. She also spent some time producing magic on stage, leading a Children’s Musical Theatre company. Ask her about the big number, “I am a masterpiece in progress,” offering life lessons at any age with a catchy tune.
She writes this blog and so much more…
Along with this blog, powerful training tomes, course curriculum, and industry insights, Lori authored “See the Ball, Hit the Ball,” a chapter in Rooted in Strengths: Celebrating the Strengths Perspective in Social Work -- a widely read and influential book that focuses on strengths-based thinking in social work. Lori is also a sought-after guest speaker for college classes and K–12 teachers and expert consultant to administrators.
Eight years ago, she launched the innovative Everybody Matters model of on-campus counseling for K–12 students, where college interns are trained and prepared to apply proven emotional and behavioral intervention techniques. The mission? To help people thrive emotionally when life gets hard.
As Lori says, “We are simultaneously helping kids and building the next generation of committed, engaged, and fired-up social workers.”
The Everybody Matters Impact…and counting
Recently, Everybody Matters expanded its impact beyond children to teens and adults in need through Everybody Thrives, a program that offers affordable telehealth sessions to enhance relationships, navigate change, manage emotions, and other meaningful changes in how individuals show up in life.
Maybe you didn’t know…
Lori is a two-time cancer conqueror and mom to two extraordinary young women and likely one bedraggled houseplant with all the experiences she has crammed into her time away. Welcome back, Lori! We love you.
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