Meryl Levine, MSSA, ACSW

National Director of Parent Partnerships

As the 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 technical assistance activities, including helping organizations develop parent advisory councils and other roles for parent partners, 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 to improve services and outcomes for families. She has expertise in providing training and technical assistance to community groups, organizations, programs and service systems to build capacity and successfully implement strategies and systems reforms to improve outcomes for children and families.

In addition to her work with the Alliance, Meryl teaches a course each quarter in the graduate school of social work at University of Southern California. Meryl has a master’s in social work administration from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She holds a BA in social work and a BS in education from Pennsylvania State University. Her top priorities are her daughter and her husband.