Talking to Children about the Conflict in Ukraine

Caryn Hirsch, LCSW, has worked with children and their families for over 25 years. In 1999, Caryn relocated to New Jersey and started her work at Catholic Charities in Trenton working with children and families of abuse, neglect and trauma. Caryn has been an adolescent trauma consultant for Mercer County since 2008. Caryn moved to another agency in Trenton in 2009 where she opened and ran a child/adolescent outpatient clinic. In 2012, Caryn became the Clinical Consultant for DCF offices in Mercer County. In 2015, Caryn returned to Catholic Charities as Program Director of Family Growth in Trenton. Caryn assisted in expanding Family Growth into Burlington, and an Outpatient clinic for children and their families in Westampton, NJ located at Providence House began. In 2018, Caryn was promoted to Director of Children and Family Services for Mercer and Burlington counties and was directly responsible for all clinical programs within Children and Family Services for Catholic Charities in those two counties. In 2020, Caryn was again promoted to Clinical Director for Children and Family Services. Caryn currently oversees all clinical needs for the Children and Family /Providence House Service Area of Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton.