Advisory Board Member Profile
Maribel Forbes
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California Department of State Hospitals - Metropolitan
Chief of Social Work Area of Expertise:
Your Customers - Their Journey, Empathy & Storytelling, To Market - The New Business Plan |
Maribel Bicaldo-Forbes graduated from University of Southern California with a Master's degree in Social Work. She worked as a medical social worker; then worked as a therapist focusing on clients who were diagnosed with PTSD and Major Depression. She later worked in a county outpatient mental health clinic. Maribel has been working at the Department of State Hospitals-Metropolitan since 1997.
She started as a level of care social worker, then promoted as a supervising social worker and she is now the Chief of Social Work. In 2017, Maribel was the recipient of the DSH-Metropolitan Jane Adams Award. On April 2019, she received the Department of State Hospitals "Excellence in Partnership" award. Maribel has been an invited guest lecturer at California State University: Long Beach, Fullerton and Dominguez Hills. Her topics being related to psychiatric and forensic social work. |