Patti-Ann Bossert, LCSW

Patti-Ann Bossert is a licensed social worker who has broad experience working
as a therapist, manager-supervisor, mediator, and is the program director of
Coalition for Alcohol & Drug Free Pregnancies (CADFP).

She earned a Master of Social Work from San Jose State University in 1991 and
became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in 1994. As a Social Worker,
she’s worked with agencies providing services for foster and adoptive families
and families with young children (up to 3 years of age). In developing programs
to mentor foster teen moms and support the needs for babies in foster care, she
learned that approximately 85 percent of young children were removed from their homes because of alcohol or substance use by their parents and had significant developmental deficits. Patti’s activism with Santa Clara County’s Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Task Force led to her co-founding the Coalition for Alcohol & Drug Free Pregnancies (CADFP) http://www.cadfp.org/. Working with other community partners, she is leading the prevention effort to reduce the number of substance-exposed babies. Patti welcomes readers to check the health education resources available at http://www.cadfp.or/education.php.