Our Team

Kelley Gruber, MSW, LISW-S, leads the Training Content Team’s Substitute Care and Permanency Division at Ohio’s University Consortium for Child and Adult Services (OUCCAS). She is responsible for supervising a team that ensures the completion of products and tools that support the learning and development of adoptive families, foster families, kinship families, adoption and foster care assessors, and independent living workers. Kelley has contributed to the development of numerous training curricula, including the Preservice series, the Assessor series, the Resource Readiness series, Foster Care Fundamentals, and numerous trauma-informed trainings. She has also participated in several statewide work groups and grants focused on foster care, early childhood development, and trauma-informed care.

Kelley began her child welfare career in 1994 and has been in training development and delivery since 2005. She has experience as a group home teaching parent, placement specialist, birth parent counselor, post-adoption support worker, therapist, and trainer. Her professional skills encompass supervision and management, learning theory and design, needs assessment, facilitation and training, foster caregiver development, and trauma-informed care. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Furman University and her Master of Social Work from The Ohio State University. Kelley is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration from Ohio University, expected to graduate in May 2025.