| Susan Davis Swanson, MSW,LCSW, BCD (Executive Director)
Susan is a noted authority on issues involving step, blended, and divorced families. She has spent over fourteen years working with couples, helping them understand the issues that are part of StepFamily life, working with their communication so they can collaborate on problem solving thereby strengthening their relationship. “This strengthened relationship has the best chance of success in the StepFamily dynamic”. Susan received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work from California State University at Long Beach. Her experience includes over 10 years of running support groups for Separation and Divorce and for Mood Disorders. She has spoken numerous times on the subject of Mood Disorders and on the topic of remarried couples and stepfamilies to various groups. She offers continuing education on the subject of StepFamilies to other professionals. Susan holds Board Certified Diplomate status in her field and is listed in Cambridge Who’s Who for 2008/2009. Dr. Rex Swanson (Managing Director)
Rex has been active in private business and local government throughout his career and has served as President of SK Metro Corp., Managing Partner of Metropolitan Consulting, LLC, and Vice President/Partner of The Cloverleaf Group. Prior to entering private business he served over twenty years in local government service in the State of California. He has served as Deputy City Manager for the City of Santa Ana, Deputy City Manager for the City of Inglewood, and Community Development Director for the City of Pasadena. He has served on the faculty of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at California State University at Long Beach and has lectured at the University of Southern California, U.C.L.A., and the University of California at Irvine. He holds a Doctorate from the University of Southern California. He served on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Leadership Network and is a member of the Urban Land Institute. Leslie Brooke Davis, J.D. (Communications Director)
Leslie has extensive experience in the communications field. Her background includes nearly ten years as a writer, editor and managing editor on a wide variety of trade, technical and professional publications and websites. She has jointly authored articles on the subject of StepFamily dynamics and is currently co-authoring a book on the experience of a couple in a stepfamily situation. She was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from Emerson College in Boston, and the degree of Juris Doctor by the King Hall School of Law at the University of California at Davis. Leslie Brooke Davis is a member of the Washington State Bar Association.
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| MISSION STATEMENT
One out of 3 Americans will live as part of a StepFamily at some point in their life, so StepFamilies are hardly unusual! Unfortunately more than 60% of marriages involving stepfamily dynamics end in divorce. While Stepfamily life has become so much more predominant, we still attempt to manage it with the same expectations as those of a nuclear family. Often, there are more questions than answers, and more confusions and disruptions than we could have expected. When I became a Stepmom many years ago, and all through my experience, I wished I had somewhere to turn. The StepFamily Center is dedicated to strengthening couples so they can successfully meet the challenges of the StepFamily experience!" | | |
