Tarn Foerg
| Additional Roles | Program Director Social Work, Program Director Applied Sustainability |
|---|---|
| Faculty Member |
Applied Sustainability Degree
Social Work Degree |
| Pronouns | She/Her/Hers |
| Education | University of Vermont, Master of Social Work; University of Vermont, Bachelor of Science |
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| Connect Online |
LinkedIn |
| Contact |
Freeman Hall Email Me |
Biography
Tarn Foerg’s identity is as a Social Worker. She holds a BSW, MSW, and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW). Tarn is the Social Work Program Director and Director of Applied Sustainability at Champlain College. This is her 15th year at Champlain College. Her professional practice experience spanned 12 years prior to teaching. Tarn’s clinical practice experience included extensive case-management and clinical support for children, youth and families as a direct service clinician in school social work with The Baird Center for Children and Families.
In addition to her active memberships in BPDonline, CSWE and NASW-VT. Tarn has provided many years of volunteer service including as a Executive Board member of the National Association of Social Workers-VT Chapter, the Nominations Committee of the Baccalaureate Program Directors, as a crisis volunteer for the Women’s Rape Crisis Center, fundraising efforts for the Committee on Temporary Shelter, and as an event coordinator for Lake Champlain Waldorf School. She was a Board president and volunteer for the Women’s Rape Crisis Center, served the older adult population at the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging, as community outreach educator regarding access to benefits and services, was co-director of a state-wide Senior Help-line and a quarterly columnist for local papers regarding issues for seniors and those who qualify for disability benefits. She has supervised MSW level interns as a field instructor for the University of Vermont and was a supervisor of School Social Work clinicians working in the largest mental health agency in Vermont. Tarn co-developed the Trauma Response Protocol for children and families to be implemented in crisis events in the largest county in Vermont and was a consultant to a local school district regarding anti-bullying and pro-social skills development for elementary aged children and held teacher in-services regarding implementation. Tarn has served as a Research Fellow for the Center for Community and Social Justice at Champlain College in 2021 exploring Emergency Response Systems for those in mental health crisis. In 2023, she led Research Assistants in her Fellowship focused on Banned Knowledge and Low Barrier Access to Content in Vermont schools.
She has taught Ethics in Human Services, Practicum I and II and the accompanying seminars, Crisis Intervention, Survey of Community Agency, Community Experience, Social Welfare Policy, Sexuality and Human Development. In her service to the college she has held roles in the creation of the College’s Women and Gender Center, on the Student Conduct Review Board, Curriculum Committee, Library and Academic Resources Committee, United Way Fundraising Committee, Service Learning Planning Committee, Learn2Listen/Listen2Learn, Faculty Club advisor for YarnForGood, the Social Work Phi Alpha Honor Society and DREAM. Tarn is also engaged in collaborative work with co-conspirators of NEW (Naming Educational Whiteness a group of colleagues whose guiding philosophy centers our work toward more equitable systems within education broadly, and within our individual disciplines more specifically.
Publications & Abstracts
Exploration of an alternative emergency response system: Vermont
Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing
Check out the various Social Work Associations to learn more about social work:
- IFSW
- NASW
- NABSW
- Demystifying Social Work: Dr. Geetanjali Ted Talk
- The Danger of A Single Story-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Ted Talk, Listen to this TedTalk to inspire you too think more deeply about how you see, truly see others as whole beings and how you to want to be seen.
- (divorcing) White Supremacy Culture-Coming Home to Who We Really Are by Tema Okun, Understanding the pervasive systemic behaviors, policies and practices that are imbedded in our institutional settings provides insights to disrupt and make necessary changes to achieve justice.
Favorite Quote
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito.”
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