In early November, Lund Family Center welcomed Susan Onderwyzer as Clinical
Coordinator for Residential Services at Lund Family Center. Onderwyzer has
a Masters in Social Work from Adelphi University and is a Board Certified
Diplomate in clinical social work; dually licensed as both a clinical social
worker and alcohol and drug abuse counselor. She anticipates award of her
Ed.D from UVM in May, 2011. Most recently, Onderwyzer worked in the
forensic field with both male and female offenders as the Program Services
Executive at the Vermont Department of Corrections, where her
responsibilities broadly included oversight of correctional programs in
Education, Vocational Services, Risk Reduction, Women’s Services, Sex
Offender Treatment, and Risk Assessment. Prior to that, Onderwyzer held
positions ranging from Director of the Employee Assistance Program for
Vermont State Employees, to Clinical Director at Maple Leaf Farm, as well as
direct clinical practice since 1984.
Sarah E. Hoffert recently began her position as Lund Teen Pregnancy
Prevention Outreach Specialist. Hoffert comes to Lund with a wealth of
knowledge in sexual health, higher education, non-profit management, outdoor
leadership, and women and girls' issues. She has a M.Ed in Higher Education
and Student Affairs Administration from the University of Vermont and a
Bahcelors degree in Family Sociology and minors in Women's Studies, Language
and Culture of the Deaf Community, and Dance from Otterbein University in
Westerville, OH. She also maintains a Certificate in Nonprofit Management
from Champlain and Marlboro Colleges. Hoffert was the sole national
recipient of the EmpowHer Fellowship for 2007-2008 awarded by ACPA (College
Student Affairs International) Standing Committee for Women (SCW), and
she is currently serving as SCW's Program Chair for the 2011 conference in
Baltimore. Hoffert’s research interests involve sexual health needs during
natural disaster response, identity development of twins and multiples in
college (inspired by her own relationship with her identical twin sister),
and women and girls' leadership. When she is not at work Sarah enjoys
taking tap dance classes at the Flynn, volunteering with Vermont Cares as a
HIV tester, and learning how to become a better caretaker for her foster
pup, Russell.
Lund Family Center staff and Board members are excited about the incredible
skills and talents these two women bring to the organization and the
positive impact they will help make in the lives of hundreds of women,
children and families.
About Lund Family Center:
Commemorating 120 years of strengthening families in 2010, Lund Family
Center annually serves more than 4,000 children and family members. Lund’s
work focuses on three goals: strengthening families, reducing child abuse
and neglect, and helping to create new families through adoption. Its
mission is to help children thrive by serving families with children, pregnant
or parenting teens and young adults, and adoptive families.