Our Executive Staff
Patrina Lawrence, MSW, LCSW is the Co-Founder of Serving Children and Reaching Families, LLC (SCARF). For over two decades, this licensed clinical social worker has made significant contributions to the field of children services in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Florida. Ms. Patrina Lawrence received her master of social work degree from Howard University, where she was one of two top students to spearhead the university’s federal grant on effective treatment models for batterers of domestic violence.
Among her many acclamations, she is most proud of her recognition for successfully reunifying the most children to their birth families, while working at a therapeutic foster care agency. Her life’s moto is, “where much is given, much is required.”
Maria Lawrence, MBA, MCITP is the Co-Founder of Serving Children and Reaching Families, LLC (SCARF). Ms. Lawrence has the responsibility of upholding strong financial management and fiscal accountability as well as providing leadership and vision for SCARF. Her day-to-day management efforts ensure that SCARF effectively accomplish its mission to give at-risk children and families the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Before Co-Founding SCARF, Ms. Lawrence served as Information Systems Supervisor for Devereux, the largest Mental Health Organization in the United States. Ms. Lawrence also held significant roles at Jacobs Engineering and several Wall Street based organizations.
Dr. Angela Blasini, Psy.D. Clinical Supervisor for Serving Children and Reaching Families. She has 25 plus years of mental health field experience. Dr. Blasini has a Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico.
Angela moved to Florida 11 years ago and is bilingual in Spanish and English. She has experience working with children, adolescent and adult. She also have experience diagnosing children with neurodevelopmental disorders, working with adult sex offenders and adolescents who have sexually offended.
My focus is helping clients to discover their strengths, building support systems, and developing healthy lifestyles to set the foundation for life success.
Advisory Board
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Board Vice President
Board Secretary
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