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Emily is a board-certified behavior analyst with over 20 years of school social work experience, assessing, modeling, and coaching intensive intervention plans for students with behavior and developmental disabilities. Emily works in private practice with educators and parents who want more tools to address challenging behavior in the classroom, home, or community. Her expertise and interest center around restorative practices, adult resiliency and self-care, parent advocacy and support with challenging behavior, and coaching and mentoring for educators, behavior interventionists, school psychologists, and school social workers. Emily is the Licensed Social Work Consultant and Preferra’s Risk Management Education Program presenter.

Terrie Fritz has recently retired from the position of Director of The Center for Social Work in Healthcare at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work, University of Oklahoma. Terrie has practiced social work since graduating with her MSW in 1978 and has worked in the fields of Child Welfare, Mental Health, and Maternal and Child Health in direct and program/policy development positions. From 1995 to 2011, she was the Director of Child Health and the Director of Behavioral Health at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority, the state agency responsible for administering the Medicaid program. Before that, Terrie was the Director of Social Work for the Oklahoma State Department of Health. She currently contracts with private not-for-profits, administering special projects in professional development. Terrie currently serves as an instructor for Preferra’s Risk Management Education Program.

Betsy retired from Kansas State University in May 2019. During her 25 years at KSU, Dr. Cauble taught every course in the social work curriculum. Her prior experience includes serving as a child welfare administrator at Franklin County Children's Services in Columbus, Ohio, as director of a hospital social work department, as a family therapist, custody mediator, research project director, and foster parent. Dr. Cauble is one of Preferra’s champions in developing risk management content, the CE Director and presenter for Preferra’s Risk Management Education Program, and a board member.