Biography: William E. Painter Jr., MS
William “Bill” E. Painter Jr., MS has become known throughout his 35 year career
as a pioneer in the field of family preservation services. For 15 years Bill worked
in residential treatment settings developing programs youth with histories of
abuse that were experiencing multiple disrupted placements. He developed
clinical service and supervision curricula for family preservation services focused
on enabling treatment with a focus on understanding the functions of behaviors
rather than a strict behavioral change approach. The years Bill spent in
developing residential treatment programs influenced his perspective on how to
design home based treatment that provides treatment of trauma within the family
system. As the leading developer of the Family Centered Treatment®, Bill has
received numerous opportunities to work with state and federal responses to
child abuse and neglect issues and impact policy designed to address treatment
methodology. Over the years Bill has provided hundreds of state and national
workshops on topics including parenting the sexually traumatized child,
reunification with parents after the termination of parental rights, parenting the
child of multiple rejections, attachment issues, multiple separations and losses
treatment issues, and performance based mentality / anonymous personality.
Currently, Bill serves as the Senior Director of Clinical Practice within The Mentor
Network’s Family and Child Services Center of Excellence and providing
leadership for the ongoing advancement of Family Centered Treatment® (FCT);
an evidence-based and best practice model of in-home family preservation
services.