Erin Maxwell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with over a decade of experience working with child, youth and immigrant families. At Legal Services for Children, Erin works with detained children and provides clinical case management services to immigrant children residing in the community. Erin was the Director of Legal Services for Children’s Detained Immigrant Children’s Project from 2014 to 2018. Prior to working at Legal Services for Children, Erin worked for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services advocating on behalf of, and making best interest recommendations for, unaccompanied detained immigrant children and youth and at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project as a Social Services Coordinator. She obtained her Masters of Social Welfare (MSW) from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006 and has been working with immigrants and refugees both domestically and internationally since that time.
