Kathleen Ayala, MSW and Tim Grove, MSW

Kathleen Ayala, MSW, has been a social worker in the Treatment Foster Care Program with SaintA, Inc. for the last 5 years. Her background is in early intervention with children from birth to three years old and medical social work. She received her MSW from the University of Hawaii in Manoa.

Tim Grove, MSW, is the Chief Clinical Officer at SaintA. He has nearly 20 years of experience in direct care and administration. He spearheaded SaintA’s trauma-informed care philosophy and practices, including implementing Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics™. He also developed the training curriculum for trauma informed care, which centers on the Seven Essential Ingredients for understanding and implementing it.