Baljit Hundal, M.S.W.

Baljit Hundal, M.S.W., has built a thirty-year career in the Health and Human Services arena and has worked in the private and public sectors throughout California and New York City. Ms. Hundal has held several significant leadership roles over her career, with her most recent role as the Child Welfare Director and Local Mental Health Director for a small county in California. Ms. Hundal has taken the lead to implement several state initiatives and reforms over the past 10 years which include Extended Foster Care (Merced County), Katie A (Merced County), Continuum of Care (AB 403-Mariposa County) and recently was the county lead for CalAIM Implementation in Mariposa County. Ms. Hundal understands organizational culture and has assisted with significant changes in the organization with practice and philosophy in Mariposa County as the lead for the consolidation of 3 county departments into 1 superagency and shifting to an agency-wide System of Care Framework. Ms. Hundal also has experience with disaster work and has been a county lead for mass care and shelter and recovery work and has helped to stand up Local Assistance Centers after significant loss and damage from wildfires. Ms. Hundal is also an instructor/trainer for several training academies and agencies in the state and provides trainings for front line staff, supervisors and middle managers.