Social Work at Public Counsel

Public Counsel’s social workers offer holistic and collaborative social-emotional support to our clients in the Child Youth & Family Advocacy Project, Immigrants’ Rights Project, and Audrey Irmas Gender Justice Project. The support is grounded in trauma-informed, healing-centered, anti-racist methodology.

The social work team offers education to Public Counsel staff and volunteers on compassion fatigue, trauma-informed practice, client-centered ideology, boundary setting, and skills for working with clients in crisis. By partnering with clients and coworkers, our social workers strengthen the legal interventions we seek for our clients.

The Social Work Team

Carrie Vereide

Social Worker

Cindy Franco

Senior Social Worker

Judy Verduzco

Director of Social Work

Mara Ziegler

Senior Social Worker

Selene Hernandez

Social Worker

Yvette Solano

Social Worker

A conversation on how we integrate social work into our legal services: