LuAnn Pierce

LuAnn Pierce is a licensed social worker and youth therapist. LuAnn has worked with children, teens and families for over 15 years. She spent about 10 years of that time at Carolina Children's Home working with youth in residential treatment and community based independent living programs. Although she has always provided direct services, she also acted as the program manager and supervisor for these programs for the last five years of her tenure with the agency.

Pierce also founded the first agency in South Carolina to serve runaway and homeless youth. She served on numerous committees and task forces in South Carolina and founded the Program Directors' Committee for the SC Association of Children Homes.

Since that time, LuAnn has worked as a child and youth therapist in a non-profit counseling center in West Tennessee. She is currently working with a juvenile justice diversion program and has a private practice. Additionally, LuAnn is an Adjunct Professor for the University of Memphis at Jackson. She will be teaching their first undergraduate social work courses Fall, 1997.

Her more recent accomplishments include writing and publishing a parenting book about emotional and social development of children and teens, Growing up Sane (in uncertain times).

The book is available through the ABC bookstore. In addition to this publication, Pierce publishes a monthly parenting magazine titled Person to Person. She is the Teen Editor for our own SelfhelpMagazine.com, and writes the monthly columns Getting Sane for Tapestry magazine and Emotional Wellness: It Begins at Birth for June Blossom Family Express.

LuAnn is a graduate of the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina. She received the prestigious Academic Excellence and Practice Achievement Award from the College of Social Work faculty in 1994. She holds an MS in social work and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies.