Cassie Morley serves as the Washington Parents as Teachers State Leader. This role allows her to make use of 20 years’ worth of experience supporting families. As the State Leader, she provides Parents as Teachers parent educators with trainings on topics such as screenings, assessments, and data quality. She also supports all Washington PAT affiliates with individualized implementation support targeted on fidelity to the PAT model. Cassie serves as a key member of the Ounce Washington Home Visiting Implementation Hub which supports high-quality implementation of home visiting throughout the state; building capacity and focusing on continuous quality improvement and family engagement
Her love of babies, birth, and family empowerment began as a college student at the University of Puget Sound. Compelled to be a part of the magic of pregnancy and birth, she pursued a career in Midwifery. In 2003, Cassie was first trained as a Parents as Teachers Parent Educator. She later worked for an Olympia non-profit supporting the families of infants and toddlers with disabilities and developmental delays.
Fueled with a renewed passion for child development and the power of home visiting, Cassie began working with Native American families and children through the PAT BabyFACE program. Through her work at the Wa He Lut Indian School with BabyFACE, a passion for partnering with tribal communities was born. This led Cassie to many more years of collaboration and support for Native American families through the South Puget Intertribal Planning agency, an intertribal, nonprofit consortium serving the Chehalis, Nisqually, Shoalwater Bay, Skokomish and Squaxin Island Tribes to promote and enhance the prosperity of their Tribal Communities. Cassie has served as a grant reviewer for Tribal MIECHV home visiting and volunteers with Ttawaxt Birth Justice to further their work promoting sacred and quality care for pregnant and parenting families.
Cassie lives in Olympia Washington with her husband and daughter.