Presenter(s)

Amelia Franck Meyer (Ed.D.) is the founder and CEO of the national nonprofit organization Alia. Alia is building a proof of concept for the idea that public child welfare agencies can serve as primary prevention agencies that focus on keeping children safe with—not from—their families. Team Alia has expertise in workforce well-being, leadership supports, and permanency, as well as in building prevention systems that keep children safe with their families, building empathy and trauma-informed care into child welfare practices, and using human-centered design to codesign innovative systems change with families and communities.

Dr. Franck Meyer has over 30 years of experience as an innovator in child welfare and was named as one of People Magazine’s “25 Women Changing the World” in 2018. She has a TEDx Talk, “The Human Need for Belonging,” which has been viewed more than 50,000 times and has the distinguished honor of being named a Bush Fellow and an Ashoka Fellow. Dr. Franck Meyer and Team Alia are passionate about a national movement to create a child welfare system where all people can thrive. Alia works with child welfare leaders who are innovators and early adapters in jurisdictions around the country and the globe to create transformational change.