Franklin Romero is a native Angelino who earned his B.A. in Social Work from California State University, Los Angeles and his Master’s in Social Work from the University of Southern California. Franklin has social work experience in providing services to families and children through the Department of Children and Family Services as an emergency response children’s social worker. At the Department of Mental Health, Franklin has worked with youth on probation, delivering counseling and psychotherapy services to families and children as well as conducting crisis response and mental health assessments with the Psychiatric Mobile Response Team (PMRT). Franklin also has gained medical social work experience at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles in working with patients at the end of life stage, working with families and children who have been recently diagnosed with an illness, conducting child abuse assessments and helping families and individuals cope with grief and loss.