Darla Henry - Co-founder
Darla L. Henry is co-founder of Family Design Resources, Inc., and is a Best Practice and Policy Specialist for the Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN). Darla is the developer of the 3-5-7 Model of helping children work through the losses they have suffered.
Darla received her Master’s of Social Work from the University of Michigan and her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is a 30+ year social work professional and has provided public and private social services in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.
Much of Darla’s work has been in the child welfare field, encompassing protective services, group care, community awareness and more recently, on issues of permanency for children in out-of-home care. She was also a clinical social worker in private practice, working with individuals, couples, families and groups.
Darla received her Ph.D. in social work from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. She has published articles about her research on abused children in the Child Welfare Journal and Social Work in Health Care Journal.
In addition, Darla is a trainer and workshop presenter for a variety of topics, such as resilience in children, group counseling with resistive clients, foster to adoptive parenting, parenting skills, attachment and loss issues for children waiting for permanency, and preparing parents for adoption. Darla has been a keynote speaker for several state conferences and has presented papers in Australia and Washington, D.C.
Contact Darla by telephone at 717.231.6424 or 717.236.8490 and by e-mail at dhenry@familydesign.org