Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Channing Petrak
Immediate Past President
Char Rivette
President
Ernestine Briggs-King, Ph.D.
Vice President
Jerry H. Dunn
Secretary
Charles Wilson, MSSW
Former Program Director, Chadwick Center, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego
2025 Board of Directors
Uma S. Ahluwalia, MSW, MHA
Public Health and Human Services Independent Consultant, Leapp Strategies
Sue Ascione, MS
Project Director, Northeast Regional Children's Advocacy Center, Philadelphia Children's Alliance
Ernestine Briggs-King, Ph.D.
Vice President, Child and Family Interventions; Director, Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress, Kennedy Krieger Institute; Faculty, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Jerry H. Dunn, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Children's Advocacy Services of Greater St. Louis; Clinical Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Deana Joy
Executive Director, Children's Advocacy Centers of North Carolina
Lt. Joseph E. Laramie (ret.)
Former Program Manager, National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College
Vickie M. Melvin, MSW, LSW
Associate Director, Philadelphia Children's Alliance
Jeffrey S. Noto
Chief Financial Officer - Zayo Group
Channing Petrak, M.D.
Medical Director, Pediatric Resource Center
Lou Anna Red Corn, J.D.
Fayette (Ky.) Commonwealth’s Attorney (Ret.)
Jeff Rich
Detective, City of Plano, Texas, Police Department
Char Rivette, MSW, LCSW
Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Children's Advocacy Center
Charles Wilson, MSSW
Former Program Director, Chadwick Center, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego