Brenda Hill, MSW, LCSW, is Director of Training for the Council on Accreditation. Brenda has been involved with accredited organizations for over twenty-five years and is proud to say that she has never worked with a non-profit private organization that was not accredited. In addition, she was employed by COA to assist the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in their accreditation process. She served as Executive Director of the National Association of Social Workers in the state of Ohio from 1998-2000 and has been a member of the adjunct faculty of the graduate School of Social Work of Virginia Commonwealth University.