Michael L. Scholl, MSW, LCSW
Director
Casey Family Programs
Boise Field Office
6441 W. Emerald Street
Boise, ID 83704 |
Idaho
Michael L. Scholl has devoted 26 years of his life and career to ensuring
that children enjoy the safety, permanency, and well-being they deserve.
He has worked tirelessly toward these goals in positions ranging
from a frontline child protection worker to his current position as Director
of Casey Family Programs in the Boise Field Office.
Mr. Scholl uses his impressive interpersonal, organizational, and leadership
skills effectively to manage change processes, provide clarity,
and motivate others. Initially as a social worker with the Casey Family
Programs and now as its Boise Field Office Director, he has been
instrumental in forging working partnerships between Casey, local
universities, and the Department of Health and Welfare to support social
work education, education and training of State agency personnel,
and opportunities for foster parents to come together to strengthen
themselves individually and as a group. A particularly warm, open, and
personable individual, collaboration and appreciation for diversity seem
second nature to Mr. Scholl. It is rare to attend a meeting of decision
makers regarding child abuse and neglect issues with no Mr. Scholl at
the table, persisting in his efforts to achieve successful outcomes for
children and youth.
The tremendous foresight of Mr. Scholl serves both the Casey Family
Programs and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. For
example, Mr. Scholl enabled Casey Family Programs to re-examine its
goal of providing long-term foster care in order to move on to more
permanent options for youth. He also helped to create and sustain Idaho's
Foster Youth Initiative, a group of foster youth and foster alumni
who use their experience and wisdom to propose recommendations
for improving the State's child welfare system. Mr. Scholl additionally
promotes Casey's Technical Assistance Program, which supports foster
parents and grants foster children the opportunity of a more typical
growing up experience by allowing them to participate in such extracurricular
activities as music lessons.
Finally, Mr. Scholl has proven instrumental in blending and integrating
philosophies, leveraging and pooling funding resources, and sharing
research and data to improve services between Casey Family Programs
and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and to expand and
enhance their services to children, youth, and families. He emerges as
the embodiment of the impact of advanced social work skills on the
child welfare system, effectively facilitating its realization of positive
outcomes for the children and families the system serves.
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