Dr. Cassandra Bolar has a heart to see families flourish and thrive. For over 15 years, she has been engaged in community-based programming and research efforts that focus on improving outcomes for children and their families. Clinically, she is passionate about serving marital couples through therapy and relationship education, and she created the Marriage Head Start premarital curriculum. She also had an opportunity to examine the public health implications of healthy relationships at Morehouse School of Medicine’s (MSM) Satcher Health Leadership Institute (SHLI). At SHLI, she directed three large NIMHD research grants focused on utilizing a quality parenting curriculum, the Smart and Secure Children program, to reduce health disparities among children and their families. She currently serves as a psychology professor at the University of West Georgia and marriage counselor at Therapy Co. Counseling. She received her bachelor’s degree in Child and Family Development from the University of Georgia and her master’s and doctoral degrees in Human Development and Family Studies from Auburn University. She holds a Certified Family Life Educator credential from the National Council on Family Relations. Cassandra resides in Lithia Springs, GA with her husband and two children.