Erica Moltz, MA, CPC, Clinical Director

Erica Moltz, MA, CPC (Counselor) is the Clinical Director of Adoptions Together. For over 20 years, she has been counseling families, much of that time specializing in adoption issues. She also conducts parent preparation training for families adopting through the domestic program. As clinical director, her responsibilities include training the social workers who conduct home studies for families that are beginning the adoption process or who want to adopt another child.

Erica Moltz
Clinical Director
Adoptions Together
301-422-5101

Dawn Musgrave, JD, Associate Director and General Counsel

Dawn Oxley Musgrave, (Juris Doctorate), Associate Director and General Counsel, has more than 20 years of experience in child advocacy and nonprofit management. In addition to serving as Adoptions Together's legal counsel since 1992, she oversees program development and administrative and fiscal operations. Musgrave is a well-known advocate for child welfare systems reform and has served as president of the Maryland Coalition for Adoption. She is a frequent presenter on adoption and related issues to child welfare professionals throughout the country. Musgrave has been a member of the Governor's Commission on Adoption, the Maryland Adoption Oversight Committee and currently serves as a member of the Maryland Adoption Strategic Planning Committee and the Foster Care Court Improvement CINA Subcommittee.

Dawn Oxley Musgrave
Associate Director/Legal Counsel
Adoptions Together
301-422-5126

Susan Ogden, Director of Domestic Adoption

Susan Ogden, Director of Domestic Adoption at Adoptions Together, MA Education, has worked in education and program management for 25 years.  The Domestic program direction at Adoptions Together includes advocacy for better understanding of adoption today and its relationship to child welfare and foster care.  Adoptions Together's Domestic program places 60 infants and 25 school-aged children each year.

Ms Ogden is an adoptive mother of a 13-year old girl, Sasha.  Her family's open adoptive relationship was featured in the New York Times in October, 1998 ("Secrecy and Stigma No Longer Clouding Adoption".)

Ogden has published in Adoptive Families magazine and The Washington Post. In 1999, Ogden and Celebrate Adoption members published An Educator's Guide to Adoption, a booklet for adoptive parents to give to their childrens' teachers.  The Guide, now in its 5th printing, was written up in USA Today  and has been distributed throughout the United States.  Ogden was invited to present the Educator's Guide on the Rosie O'Donnell show in 2000.

One of Ogden's major directions at AT is outreach to broaden acceptance of adoption as an option in high schools, crisis pregnancy clinics, hospitals, churches and other community organizations that work with youth and women with unplanned pregnancies.  She designed a three-hour seminar, Trends in Adoption Today, for the professional community and has delivered it to 24 area hospitals.

Adoptions Together produced a Guide to Adoption for Health Care and Counseling Professionals to coach those who work with women considering pregnancy options.  In 2004, Ogden produced an educational video, Adoption...Real Stories, which presents open adoption and its benefits to all parties.  This video is being widely distributed throughout the Washington Metropolitan area.

She and her colleagues also deliver Family-Building Through Adoption to business employees to promote awareness in the community of the African American infants and children who need permanent homes.