LuAnn Pierce, LCSW

LuAnn Pierce is a licensed social worker and youth therapist. LuAnn has worked with children, teens and families for over 20 years. She spent about 10 years of that time at Carolina Children's Home working with youth in residential treatment and community based independent living programs. Although she has always provided direct services, she also acted as the program manager and supervisor for these programs for the last five years of her tenure with the agency.

Pierce also founded the first agency in South Carolina to serve runaway and homeless youth. She served on numerous committees and task forces in South Carolina and founded the Program Directors' Committee for the SC Association of Children Homes.

Since that time, LuAnn has worked as a child and youth therapist in a non-profit counseling center in West Tennessee. She has worked with a juvenile justice diversion program and has a private practice. Additionally, LuAnn is an Adjunct Professor for the University of Memphis at Jackson. 

Her has written and published a parenting book about emotional and social development of children and teens,Growing up Sane In Uncertain Times.

LuAnn is a graduate of the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina. She received the prestigious Academic Excellence and Practice Achievement Award from the College of Social Work faculty in 1994. She holds an MS in social work and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies. She can be reached at SisterCircle of Denver, 303-910-2425 or www.sistercircleofdenver.com.