Emily Neal, LCSW
Mercy Home for Boys and Girls

Emily Neal, LCSW, is the Clinical Director at Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, a residential treatment, aftercare and youth mentoring program in Chicago, IL. She received her Master's in Social Work from the University of Chicago in 2002. Her work and training has focused on providing trauma-informed interventions to children, adolescents, young adults, and families in a variety of settings including residential treatment, outpatient mental health, schools and juvenile corrections. Emily is a certified to train the ARC Framework, the National Resource Center for Youth Services' Residential Child and Youth Care Professional Curriculum and is currently pursuing certification in the Child Trauma Academy's Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT).