Dawn E. Shedrick, LCSW is the Current NASW-NYS Suffolk Division Director. She is a clinical social worker, consultant, educator, and writer whose work focuses on the health and wellbeing of family caregivers, trauma survivors, and queer people. She is the founder and principal consultant of JenTex Training & Consulting, a continuing education and professional development firm for health and human services professionals.

Dawn weaves her extensive experiences as her mother’s primary caregiver since 1996. She is a mental health practitioner, trainer, educator, and holistic healer who creates experiences and tools for caregivers to heal from stress and burnout. She also helps health and human services professionals develop the skills to support them in their healing.

 On October 31, 2024 NPR (highlighted her experience in a full feature article detailing her personal journey as her mother’s primary caregiver.

(https://bit.ly/3ZSli6T)

 She is also the author of Courageous Contemplation: A Guided Journal for Family CareGivers of Chronically Ill, Disabled, and Elderly Loved Ones.

 Here reputation as a Subject Matter Expert on the personal joys and challenges of caregiving was skillfully detailed in the online publication “Sisters of AARP”. (https://www.sistersletter.com/author/dawn-e-shedrick-lcsw)