Teresa Butkus, MSW, LCSW, LISW, is a licensed clinical social worker in South Carolina and Virginia. She has a diverse background in social work having worked on the Forensic Unit at New Hampshire State Hospital, as a Day Care Director on a Maine island, and as a caseworker and supervisor in a regional adoption unit in Maine. After receiving her MSW degree at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, in 1989, Teresa worked as a community mental health therapist with children and families and in an infant early intervention program. She joined the staff of The Center for Child and Family Studies in 1997 and has worked with the Elementary School Counseling Demonstration Program in Allendale County, the DSS/MSW Child Welfare Leadership Project, the HABLA Project, and the Child Welfare Traineeship project.