Larry Horne

I have always sought to serve children - and to hopefully better the lives of children in everything that I do. I am passionate about social justice issues, especially where children are concerned. I have spent many years working in child welfare, and seek to return to this field to continue my work. I have spent time as an educator - primarily working with at-risk youth in alternative education settings.I spent many years as a licensed mental health professional working with children with sexually reactive and aggressive behaviors.I worked as the director of a non-profit child welfare program - responsible for a therapeutic foster care program that worked with children who were sexually reactive and aggressive.I worked in an adult mental health hospital where I was in charge of outpatient residential services. It was in this capacity that I learned a lot about contracted services and how to execute a performance-based contract.I worked as a program specialist for the State of Nevada where I was in charge of developing a continuous quality improvement (CQI) system for child welfare. I also participated in the federal CFSR process as a reviewer, and later developed program improvement plans.I worked in a county-operated child welfare system in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here, I was in charge of foster parent recruitment, training, licensing, and retention services. I also developed and implemented the agency's Placement Team (facilitating all new placements into foster care from the community).I worked for the nation's first cabinet-level early learning department - Washington State's Department of Early Learning. Here I oversaw development of all internal licensing policy and procedures, training, rule promulgation, and the beginnings of a continuous quality improvement system.Specialties: Management of large and complex systems, leadership, understanding of federal ACF requirements, experience with the CFSR and PIP development, public-private experience, Non-profit experience and fundraising.