{"id":2953,"date":"2017-09-05T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T22:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/childdevelopment\/?page_id=2953"},"modified":"2025-05-08T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T23:33:24","slug":"heather-elliott-pham-msw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/childdevelopment\/heather-elliott-pham-msw\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Elliott Pham, MSW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor, Child Development
\nhelliottpham@palomar.edu<\/a>
\nPhone: (760) 744-1150 x5569<\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/p>\n

As a North County native, it is truly a privilege to return to my home community with the opportunity to interact with learners through their diverse journeys in education. I come to the Child Development Department with a background focused on child safety and\u00a0health, family strengthening, and supportive communities. I earned a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology from San Diego State University (Go Aztecs!) and a Master\u2019s degree in Social Welfare, more commonly known as Social Work, from UCLA (Go Bruins!).<\/p>\n

For the last seven years, I have worked in clinical and case management settings as a social worker. I began my career in child welfare, and I currently work as a clinical social worker at a pediatric hospital. Having the opportunity to work with children and families every day fuels my passion and dedication to the field of child development. In my perspective, nothing could be more important than supporting children every step of the way from prenatal development into adulthood. Whether you are exploring child development to grow in your current field, to enter a related field like education or health care, or to learn more about how to interact with the children in your own\u00a0life, we all have\u00a0something to bring to the table in the critical\u00a0discussion of how to help kids and families thrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor, Child Development helliottpham@palomar.edu Phone: (760) 744-1150 x5569 As a North County native, it is truly a privilege to return to my home community with the opportunity to interact with learners through their diverse journeys in education. I come to the Child Development Department with a background focused on child safety and\u00a0health, family strengthening,… Continue Reading Heather Elliott Pham, MSW<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2953","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pd756y-LD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3228,"url":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/childdevelopment\/certificates-and-degrees\/","url_meta":{"origin":2953,"position":0},"title":"Certificates and Degrees","author":"Kelly Donaghy","date":"April 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Child Development & Education Certificates and Degrees\u00a0 We strongly recommend that ALL child development (CHDV) students receive individual department advising with one of our full-time CHDV & EDUC faculty members. 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