Where Is My Mommy?: A Book about Children's Fears
Where Is My Mommy? was created by Mary Kilgore, a psychotherapist who has worked extensively with day and residential programs for children, and her son Mitchell Kilgore, a school social worker. Mary Kilgore, a native of Michigan s Upper Peninsula, earned her degrees at the University of Michigan and has worked in the Bay Area, in Baltimore and in upstate New York. Both in day and residential programs, and in private practice, she worked extensively with emotionally disturbed children and teenagers, and with children in crisis. She finished her psychotherapy career in Rochester NY. Now retired from practice, Kilgore lives in Ponte Vedra Beach FL. Mitchell Kilgore spent part of his childhood in the Bay Area before moving east with his family. He earned a degree in special education from the University of Dayton (OH) and later a MSW from Syracuse (NY) University. He began his career in a therapeutic facility for emotionally disturbed children in grades 7-10 and later handled all instructional programming in a public high school for at-risk youth. After a move to a school social work position in an alternative school, Kilgore took his current assignment as a social worker in a public school for sixth through twelfth graders with such disabilities as learning, attention and emotional issues, bipolar, autism, and Asperger s.