Julie Jensen & Allison Ritchie

Julie Jensen holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Ms. Jensen has worked in the child welfare system for over 18 years supervising a number of different programs to include Ongoing Child Protection Services, Comprehensive Community Services, Foster Care, and Children’s Long Term Support services. She has also provided mental health services to children and their families in a variety of settings to include intensive In-home family therapy, mobile crisis intervention services, and traditional outpatient services in community mental health settings.

Allison Ritchie has been a Marathon County foster care provider for 18 years and in 2016 was awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Foster Care. She is the Chairperson for Marathon County’s Citizen Review Panel and a trainer for the Trauma Informed Parenting curriculum and has trained community professionals, foster parents, parents, and kinship providers on this material.