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Ms. Ralph is a field work consultant/lecturer in the Children and Families area of practice. She specializes in preparation of students for careers in child welfare services. She has been with the School full-time since 1993. Ms. Ralph places students in five nearby county social services agencies and many nonprofit organizations which serve the families who use child welfare services. She previously worked for Alameda County Social Services Agency for over 15 years in various child welfare programs. She simultaneously taught an undergraduate social work methods course at San Jose State University from 1984-1992 and a large undergraduate methods class at U.C. Berkeley in 1988. She has provided field instruction in child welfare and individual and group supervision hours for LCSW and MFCC candidates. Ms. Ralph is a Bay Area native and 1977 MSW alumna of the U.C. Berkeley School of Social Welfare. She attended California State University San Francisco for her B.A. in Social Work Education. She has an LCSW license and a California Pupil Personnel Services Credential. She was Director of Region C (East Bay) of the National Association of Social Workers, California Chapter, 1997-1999. Ms. Ralph is a Commissioner for the Alameda County Commission on the Status of Women, and is the Chair of their Affirmative Action subcommittee. She volunteers with the Rotacare Free Medical Clinic of San Leandro and serves on their Advisory Council. She is interested in the enriching and challenging aspects of the multicultural provider and client communities of the San Francisco Bay Area.