Inwood House

Linda Lausell Bryant has served as Executive Director of Inwood House since December of 2005. A Ph.D. graduate of NYU and published author of a number of scholarly works, Ms. Lausell Bryant is well versed on the pressures of poverty, especially the impact of violence on young people. Ms. Lausell Bryant is strongly aligned with Inwood House's values as advocates for adolescents. As a member of local, state and national advocacy group boards and task forces, Ms. Bryant is raising awareness of the link between teenage pregnancy and intergenerational poverty and foster care placement, and is promoting best practices for both prevention and teen family support. In August, 2009, she was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to the NYC Panel for Education Policy. Ms. Lausell Bryant serves on the Child Welfare Watch Advisory Panel which is monitoring the state of youth in the New York City Child Welfare System, the Board of the Council of Family and Child Care Agencies, the New York State Coalition on Adolescent Pregnancy, and the National Association of Social Workers.

Prior to joining Inwood House, Ms. Lausell Bryant served as Associate Commissioner for the New York City Administration for Children's Services' Office of Youth Development. Ms. Lausell Bryant has also been on the forefront of the after-school programming movement which has transformed out of school time into an opportunity for educational enrichment and personal development. As Deputy Executive Director of the Partnership for After School Education, Ms. Lausell Bryant designed and established an after-school training institute for all levels of staff from more than 1,200 New York City youth service organizations. Her early work included serving as Mediation Director for the Children's Aid Society Parent-Teen Mediation Program. As founding Director of the Victim Services School Mediation and Violence Prevention Services program, Ms. Lausell Bryant developed, implemented and secured funding for programs operating in more than 100 targeted New York City middle and high schools to help youth deter gang, relationship and family violence.

Ms. Lausell Bryant devoted her dissertation to identifying factors that can propel foster care youth to succeed in higher education.

Explore Related Categories