Louisa Cadman, is currently serving as the Indian Child Welfare Specialist (ICWS) for the Arizona Department of Child Safety, a position she has served in since moving to Arizona from Montana in 2017.
Lisa began her Social Work career in Child Welfare in 1995 where she worked as an Intervention/Ongoing Child Protection Social Worker for the State of Montana for 13 years. Throughout the duration of her career Lisa has worked as a Medical Social Worker for Hospice, High School Social Work and Case Manager/Job Developer for a welfare to work program where she developed over 25 Alternative Work Experience sites, for client participation so they would have an opportunity volunteer and gain work experience.
Ms. Cadman obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Human Services with an Emphasis on Rehabilitation from Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, MT in 1993 and a Masters in Social Work from Walla Walla University in 2010.
Lisa is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe from Montana as well as Hispanic from her father. She and her 5 siblings were raised in Houston, Texas in what Lisa likes the call the best of two worlds as both cultures were celebrated in the home.
Lisa has dual citizenship with The US and Canada, as the Blackfeet tribe crosses the Montana/Canadian border. The Canadian Blackfeet are called Piegan/Pikuni and they are referred to as bands.