Dr. Walter Howard Smith, Jr. Ph.D
Dr. Walter Smith, Jr. is a founding faculty member of the Western Pennsylvania Family Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Smith brings a wealth of clinical experience and research to the topic of child abuse and domestic violence from a Bowen theory perspective.
Dr Smith's presentations are based on his professional experience as a psychologist, a clinical director, and executive director of Family Resources, a child abuse treatment and prevention organization in Pittsburgh. The agency serves more than 6,000 families each year. For more than a decade, he has treated and supervised hundreds of cases of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, and severe child neglect.
Dr. Smith also maintains a private practice and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Psychology Program at Duquesne University. He has presented lectures and conferences on child abuse and family emotional process throughout the US.

Sharon Sutton, MA
Sharon Sutton, MA is presently in Private Practice as a Psychotherapist/Consultant and Educator. She has worked in the Mental Health Field since 1983 in a variety of positions and since 1991 following completion of her graduate work at Duquesne University in Psychology, as a psychotherapist. She worked as a Psychotherapist in a Partial Program, Wrap around Services and then as the Director of Adult Counseling Services at a Rape Crisis Center. 
In addition she has held the position of Adjunct Professor at Carlow University's Graduate School of Professional Counseling. She is passionate about her work with Trauma Survivors and has been fortunate to have the opportunity to train hundreds of service providers in Trauma-Informed Care during the last four years with the support of Allegheny County Office of Behavioral Health.

Kelly Ryan-Schmidt, LCSW
Kelly Ryan-Schmidt is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who is currently employed as a Family Therapist by Three Rivers Adoption Council in Pittsburgh, PA.  She has been working in the fields of Adoption and Mental Health for the last ten years.  She is also an adoptive parent of four children.  This spring Kelly spent several months completing a distance learning curriculum with Texas Christian University's Office of Child Development.  This was followed by a week of onsite study at TCU with Dr.'s Purvis and Cross, authors of "The Connected Child", where she trained in their "Trust Based Relational Intervention" (TBRI) model of healiing /working with children hurt by truama.

Dr. Christine White-Taylor
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Christine White-Taylor has been involved in public education for over 33 years.   The retired Pittsburgh Public School administrator completed her Undergraduate Studies in Secondary Education and Political Science at Slippery Rock State College.
Later,  Dr. White-Taylor obtained a Master of Science in Reading and Language Arts from Duquesne University.  She is also an inaugural graduate of Duquesne University's Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program for Educational Leadership (IDPEL).  Dedicated to the belief that all children can learn, her Doctoral Dissertation:   "What Is The Relationship Between Teachers' Acknowledgement of Students' Individual Learning Styles and Student Learning?" focused on the importance of teachers identifying students' individual learning styles. Such an approach to teaching would both increase student learning and increase achievement.
Dr. White-Taylor continues to work with students to meet with academic success, goal setting and identify post-secondary school options.

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