Robena Spangler is a transformational leader whose career spans more than three decades in human services and leadership development. She has held leadership roles across direct service organizations, public agencies, associations, and consulting firms, consistently advancing strategies that strengthen organizations and the people they serve. Her expertise includes presence-based leadership coaching, organizational development, and program
Dee Bonnick has been a national lived experience integration subject-matter expert and consultant for the past 10 years. Her work includes co-leading the development of the Family Empowerment and Leadership Academy (FELA) curriculum and serving as a subject-matter expert for the Quality Contact Visits product suites, congregate care product development brief, and Levels of Prevention product
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
Teresa Rafael, MSW, has been executive director of the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds since 2002. Her professional experience in the child abuse and neglect prevention field ranges from working for eight years with child protective services, foster care, and adoption in her early career to extensive work on primary prevention in the
Phil Decter, MSW, directs the Quality Improvement Center on Helplines and Hotlines. Prior to assuming leadership of the Center, Phil served for seven years as Evident Change’s director of child welfare. In that role, Phil worked with child welfare organizations nationally on the implementation of the Community Response Guide and on integrating safety-organized practice skills
Erin Espinosa is Evident Change’s director of research. Prior to joining Evident Change, she served as the director of the Texas Center of the Institute for Innovation and Implementation out of the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work, and as a consultant for the Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch’s Children’s Mental Health Initiative of
