Know About Germs: Tedi McVea, LCSW,
In 2003, Tedi McVea began working with at-risk youth in the United States and Mexico. She has consulted nationally on issues affecting at-risk youth and has a background working specifically with runaway and homeless youth, juvenile offenders and youth abusing drugs and alcohol. Tedi graduated Magna Cum Laude from Our Lady of the Lake as a Master of Social Work and maintains a valid Clinical License through the State Board of Social Worker Examiners in Texas. She believes any community can thrive, if they are afforded access to opportunity. Some groups are more marginalized, which makes it difficult for them. As a former homeless youth, Tedi understands these challenges, and has worked passionately to develop methods to assist youth during their transitioning to self-sufficiency since her entry into the social service field in 2003. In 2005,she worked as a Street Outreach Worker in California for a runaway and homeless youth program aiding unaccompanied and homeless minors. In 2006, Tedi co-facilitated a youth created documentary, which was featured nationally on PBS discussing the epidemic of methamphetamine addiction in Northern California. She was featured in a Governor’s Wall Exhibit in 2009 for her work advocating for legislative changes supporting youth transitional programs in California. That same year, she also received a statewide Student Hero of the Year award from Texas Campus Compact for her work with youth in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Over the course of the last decade, she has been able to enjoy her role as both Clinician and Clinical Supervisor with agencies in San Antonio providing treatment to families involved in CPS, the juvenile drug court program, intensive supervision probation and post placement rehabilitation. Currently, Tedi privately manages contract work with a variety of agencies in San Antonio, Texas including Our Lady of the Lake University as an adjunct professor. She also authored children's book "I Know About Germs" published by Auris Books Press in 2020. It is designed to help children ages 2-8 make sense of the changes associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Books Recommended by Tedi
Anything by Brene Brown
Becoming, Michelle Obama
The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya Renee Taylor