Honoring our Founder, Primary Expert, and Leader
Daniel M.
Marble, LCSW
After his retirement in 2009, Dan started his independent expert witness / consulting practice. Dan established a website and began his own practice, growing it to the point where Dan brought in three partners, John F. Steinfirst, Bob Kelleher, and Cheryle Roberts who have now taken over the business as independent professionals., but always wanted Attorneys to know that they were my Associates in the past. Matthew Madaus recently joined the group. All background information is included in both our CVs and brief biographical descriptions.
Dan’s outstanding career includes working with children through the YMCA at age fourteen. He attended Whittier College with the idea of becoming a YMCA Secretary. While there, he met a social worker who supervised him on a class project working with a ten year old child with serious socialization issues. She convinced him to apply for graduate school at Columbia University to get a master’s degree in Social Work.
Dan married his lifelong partner, Nancy at the end of his junior year. Together they spent a Year in Copenhagen, Denmark where Dan attended Whittier College in Copenhagen before moving to New York where Dan attended The New York School of Social Work. After graduation, Dan, his wife and two children traveled across country in a Volkswagen Camper to Bakersfield, California to start work at the Henrietta Weil Child Guidance Clinic. After ten years at the clinic, Dan Joined Psychiatry a Medical Group in private practice. He also served as a consultant at Kern County Juvenile Probation.
In the mid-eighties Dan and his partners contracted with Kern County Mental Health to found Kern County Juvenile Probation Psychiatric Services in the Kern County Juvenile Hall. Several years later in 1987 Dan founded a treatment foster care program called Kern Bridges Youth Homes. This program grew rapidly. Kern County Human Services urged Dan to open a residential treatment program for young boys which was named after a local pediatrician and his wife, The John and Dorothy Almklov House. Dan’s programs were all accredited by The California Alliance of Child and Family Services.
In 1997 Kern Bridges obtained an Adoption License. The offices the program moved into were donated to them by a local developer and the Almklov House was obtained using Community Development Block Grants which freed up considerable mortgage and rental funds that then could be used to provide expanded services. When Dan retired in 2000 the agency had no debt and Dan had realized his dream of creating a program for children that would last after he was no longer there. Shortly after he retired, he was contacted by The Western Child Welfare Agency who offered to train him to be an expert witness on the standard of care for foster care. When that agency closed, Dan established a website and began his own practice. All of Dan's Associates appreciate his help in becoming quality expert witnesses for the entire country. Now that Dan has retired, we will always keep him in our hearts and minds.
Dan’s outstanding career includes working with children through the YMCA at age fourteen. He attended Whittier College with the idea of becoming a YMCA Secretary. While there, he met a social worker who supervised him on a class project working with a ten year old child with serious socialization issues. She convinced him to apply for graduate school at Columbia University to get a master’s degree in Social Work.
Dan married his lifelong partner, Nancy at the end of his junior year. Together they spent a Year in Copenhagen, Denmark where Dan attended Whittier College in Copenhagen before moving to New York where Dan attended The New York School of Social Work. After graduation, Dan, his wife and two children traveled across country in a Volkswagen Camper to Bakersfield, California to start work at the Henrietta Weil Child Guidance Clinic. After ten years at the clinic, Dan Joined Psychiatry a Medical Group in private practice. He also served as a consultant at Kern County Juvenile Probation.
In the mid-eighties Dan and his partners contracted with Kern County Mental Health to found Kern County Juvenile Probation Psychiatric Services in the Kern County Juvenile Hall. Several years later in 1987 Dan founded a treatment foster care program called Kern Bridges Youth Homes. This program grew rapidly. Kern County Human Services urged Dan to open a residential treatment program for young boys which was named after a local pediatrician and his wife, The John and Dorothy Almklov House. Dan’s programs were all accredited by The California Alliance of Child and Family Services.
In 1997 Kern Bridges obtained an Adoption License. The offices the program moved into were donated to them by a local developer and the Almklov House was obtained using Community Development Block Grants which freed up considerable mortgage and rental funds that then could be used to provide expanded services. When Dan retired in 2000 the agency had no debt and Dan had realized his dream of creating a program for children that would last after he was no longer there. Shortly after he retired, he was contacted by The Western Child Welfare Agency who offered to train him to be an expert witness on the standard of care for foster care. When that agency closed, Dan established a website and began his own practice. All of Dan's Associates appreciate his help in becoming quality expert witnesses for the entire country. Now that Dan has retired, we will always keep him in our hearts and minds.