Campus: Tulsa
Email: Cortney.Bolt@ou.edu
Cortney is the Program Manager for the Center for Tribal Social Work at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work. Cortney also serves as the CTSW's "Academic Auntie" in support of Indigenous students through the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute Workforce Excellence Initiative University Partnership (WEI-UP).
Cortney has 13 years of field and administration experience in Child Welfare. During her employment with OKDHS, she specialized in Child Protection, Kinship Foster care, Family Finding, Motivational Interviewing, ICWA, and Family Group Conference. In 2019, Cortney developed a new family finding program for child welfare called Actively Seeking Kinship Now! (ASK Now!). ASK Now! is a connection-based program that reconnects families with their estranged support systems as a vehicle for promoting child wellbeing and parental success. Today, this program is responsible for the placement of 150+ children in kinship foster homes and reconnecting families to thousands of members of their support systems.
Cortney is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and enjoys sewing, making regalia, painting, traveling, and spending time with her family & friends in her free time.
