Pia Houseal, DSW, LCSW, is the Program Administrator for the Project AWARE grant at Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. She graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in English Literature and Women’s Studies. She has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and her doctorate degree in Social Work Leadership and Education from Millersville University.

Pia has two decades of experience as a school social worker and school administrator in Pennsylvania. Currently, through the work of the Project AWARE grant in southeastern PA, she leads a team that helps support district staff and the students/families they work with in enhancing and implementing tiered supports in school mental health systems and suicide prevention/interventions.