Child Saving Institute Appoints New Mental Health Services Director, Lora Sladovnik

Child Saving Institute Appoints New Mental Health Services Director, Lora Sladovnik

Child Saving Institute (CSI, childsaving.org) has promoted Lora Sladovnik, MS, LIMHP, to director of mental health services. Sladovnik earned her master’s degree in counseling from Bellevue University and an undergraduate degree in human resources and family science from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She joined CSI as a licensed independent mental health practitioner in September 2020. She has more than 15 years of training and clinical experience working across a variety of settings, including outpatient specialty clinics, crisis intervention, nonprofits, and private practice. In March 2021, Sladovnik transitioned into her new role.

Prior to joining CSI, Sladovnik worked as a therapist at Offutt Air Force Base, Children’s Hospital, and Omni Behavioral Health. She has experience treating a wide range of child, teen, and young-adult psychiatric disorders, and she has training in cognitive behavioral health, reality therapy, solution-focused therapy, dialectical behavior therapy and crisis intervention. Sladovnik specializes in anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and trauma. Her therapeutic approach emphasizes integrative, dynamic, and whole-person centered therapy.

Child Saving Institute is dedicated to the prevention, intervention, and healing of child abuse, neglect and abandonment. For 129 years, they have been “responding to the cry of a child” and meeting the changing needs of metro-area children. To learn more, visit childsaving.org or follow them on social media on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. To inquire about CSI’s Mental Health Services or make an appointment with a therapist, email CSIReferrals@childsaving.org or call (402) 553-6000.