Meryl Levine

As the Children’s Trust Fund Alliance’s national director of parent partnerships, Meryl leads multiple parent partnership projects including the Birth Parent National Network (BPNN), the Birth and Foster Parent Partnership (BFPP), and the Casey Family Programs Birth Parent Advisory Committee (BPAC). She is actively engaged in the Alliance’s training and technical assistance activities, including helping organizations develop parent advisory councils and other roles for parent partners, and leading the Strategic Sharing trainings and the Better Together trainings.

Meryl has more than 30 years of experience managing child maltreatment prevention, family support, and out-of-home placement programs using a strengths-based approach and helping to build protective factors in families. She has directed many national and state parent partnership initiatives and conferences to engage parents as partners in programmatic and policy decisions. She has expertise in providing training and technical assistance to community groups, organizations, programs, and service systems to build capacity and successfully implement partnership strategies and system reforms to improve outcomes for children and families.

Prior to joining the Alliance, Meryl held leadership roles in several large statewide nonprofit organizations as well as with national entities. She is a former adjunct lecturer with the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Southern California. She holds a master’s in social work administration from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, and a BA in social work and a BS in education from Pennsylvania State University.