Shelly Paule has 30 years of experience in the social work field, including over 25 years of Child Welfare experience, mental/health clinical experience and collaborative work on bringing systems together. Shelly has been licensed since 2004 with her LCSW. Shelly started training child welfare staff across Southern California in 2012. After retiring from Child Welfare Services, Shelly expanded her training and consulting business, now providing support across California to Child Welfare, Probation and Behavioral Health Agencies.
Shelly’s passion for the past several years has been supporting Counties with successfully integrating the Child Adolescent Needs and Strenghts (CANS) Consensus Building Conversation into the Child and Family Team Meeting (CFTM). Shelly became a certified CANS trainer in 2018 and has supporting multiple Counties with successful integration.
Shelly currently works as a technical assistance provider, consultant and trainer across the state. Supporting Counties with overcoming barriers to effective implementation is one of her favorite roles. In addition, Shelly serves as a lecturer and graduate advisor for SDSU’s School of Social Work.
Shelly loves traveling and has recently started traveling across the US and abroad. Traveling with her husband in their RV has become a favorite way to see our beautiful country. Our goal is to visit all 64 National Parks – we have visited 11 so far!
