Board of Directors
Executive Committee
Ernestine Briggs-King, Ph.D.
President
Char Rivette
Immediate Past President
Jerry H. Dunn
Vice President
Vickie M. Melvin
Secretary
Charles Wilson, MSSW
Treasurer
2026 Board of Directors
Uma S. Ahluwalia, MSW, MHA
Public Health and Human Services Independent Consultant, Leapp Strategies
Jordan Benning, MEd.
Program Director, Midwest Regional Children's Advocacy Center, Children's Minnesota
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
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
Jeff Rich
Detective, City of Plano, Texas, Police Department
Char Rivette, MSW, LCSW
Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Children's Advocacy Center
Ivy Svoboda, MSW
Executive Director, Nebraska Alliance of Child Advocacy Centers
Charles Wilson, MSSW
Former Program Director, Chadwick Center, Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego