Why Choose Us?
Melissa R.Lewis, founder of Family Connect Consulting, is a highly experienced family reunification specialist and social worker with over 15 years of service supporting children and families in Baltimore and surrounding communities.
Her comprehensive background allows her to support families as they navigate reunification and complex family transitions with clarity, compassion and professionalism. She understands the legal, emotional and relational challenges families face when working toward reunification and family preservation.
Melissa is dedicated to helping families maintain birth connections, guiding families through reunification and equipping professionals with genealogy-informed strategies that support lasting family relationships. Her approach is trauma-informed, reunification-focused and rooted in the belief that family identity and connection matter.
Our Services
Lead interactive training sessions for social workers, agencies or conferences on programs and workshops integrating genealogical methods and the use of genograms/chronologies into social work assessments and interventions.
Consulting on how to use family history discussions to improve family communication and help members understand the root causes of current issues in a non-confrontational way.
For Families/Individuals: Offer consulting on communication strategies, managing expectations, and navigating legal/emotional aspects of contact.
For Social Workers: Focus on training to enhance their skill in complex post-adoption situations (mediation, boundary setting, etc.) Support for search and reunion, navigation of open adoptions relationships before finalization of adoption with children in foster care.
Explore our range of services designed to help you or your team incorporate genealogy into your clients care
One on One Coaching/Mentoring: Provide personalized coaching to individual social workers who want to specialize in a niche area of practice that incorporates genealogy (working with adoptees)
Consult on projects to assist clients in gathering photos, conducting oral histories with living relatives, and preserving their family stories and legacies.
Work with social work teams to help them navigate complex family mysteries or “brick walls” in client’s history by providing expert genealogical research advice or conducting in-depth research to inform care plans.
