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Florence Crittenton is delighted to welcome Daniel Champer as Director of Clinical and Residential Services. Daniel grew up a farm kid from Ohio and believes in hard work partnered with care and nurturing. He has worked for over 15 years in the mental health field and has served as a direct care staff, therapist, clinical supervisor and clinical director in programs specializing in lockdown residential treatment, sex offender treatment, group home care, school-based services and outpatient services.

Daniel specializes in childhood development and complex trauma work throughout the life stages. He is passionate about digging in and coming alongside the tough and complicated situations that so many experience. Daniel is incredibly excited to be reaching even earlier into intervention with the families participating in Florence Crittenton’s programs. Florence Crittenton is committed to sharing our clinical philosophy of care and strengthening families as well as those working with families. For this reason Daniel will spend 30% of his time providing trainings to professionals and interested community members across the state.

Daniel enjoys teaching through telling stories gained from his experience in a variety of professional roles. In addition, he shares his lessons learned as a farm kid and being a mistake-prone human. Daniel’s areas of expertise include trauma, secondary trauma, attachment, resilience building, child / human development, mental health and wellness, environmental considerations to trauma and mental health, sexual reactivity, and suicide prevention. He strives to make learning about all areas of mental health interesting, impactful, and meaningful to ALL groups of people.