Child Welfare & Child Advocacy
Specialized child-protection practice involving child sexual abuse, serious physical harm, multidisciplinary advocacy, assessment, and case coordination.
Learn moreSocial Work & Child Welfare Leader
Building stronger systems for children, families, and the professionals who serve them.
Christopher Collazo, LMSW, CASAC-T brings more than two decades of experience across child welfare, behavioral health, LGBTQ+ services, substance use, workforce development, and organizational improvement.
Areas of expertise
Work grounded in people, practice, organizations, and systems.
LGBTQ+ Children & Families
Affirming practice, behavioral health, family systems, gender-expansive youth, community development, and organizational responsiveness.
Learn moreWorkforce Development & Supervision
Reflective supervision, secondary traumatic stress, workforce resilience, curriculum development, and trauma-informed organizations.
Learn moreSubstance Use, Harm Reduction & Recovery
Substance-use practice, co-occurring conditions, harm reduction, recovery, overdose prevention, and drug-user health.
Learn moreFeatured impact
20+Years in human services
2018—NYC child-welfare service
NationalTraining & capacity building
Practice +Research + leadership
Selected recognition
Service recognized across practice and community.
Recognition reflects sustained work with children, families, professionals, and communities—not the purpose of the work, but an affirmation of its reach.
View all recognitionACS Commissioner’s Child Advocacy Award
ACS LGBTQIA+ & Ally Award
Service to LGBTQ youth in child welfare
New York State Senate Recognition
15 years of LGBTQIA+ service
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