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Executive Team
Terri Ricks
Secretary
Email: DCFS.Secretary@la.gov
Office: (225) 342-6930
Eric Horent, Ph.D.
Undersecretary
Email: Eric.Horent@la.gov
Office: (225) 342-1102
Amanda Brunson
Assistant Secretary of Child Welfare
Email: Amanda.Brunson@la.gov
Assistant Secretary of Family Support
Email: Ashley.Sias.dcfs@la.GOV
Kim Glapion-Bertrand
General Counsel
Email: Kim.Glapion-Bertrand@la.gov
Office: (225) 342-1125
Catherine Heitman
Director of Communications
Email: Catherine.Heitman.dcfs@la.gov
Office: (225) 342-9640
Chip Coulter
Director of Governmental Affairs
Email: Chip.Coulter@la.gov
Office: (225) 342-5573
Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Email: Jessica.Jones.DCFS@LA.GOV
Office: (225) 342-0863