SEATTLE – Casey Family Programs, the nation’s largest operating foundation dedicated solely to providing and improving—and ultimately preventing the need for—foster care, announced today the hiring of Marva Hammons as managing director of strategic consulting. Effective today, Hammons will lead Casey Family Programs’ efforts in proactively seeking ways to assess and support systems improvement in organizations and agencies providing child welfare services throughout the United States.
The strategic consulting division of Casey Family Programs is designed to support and partner with state and local child welfare jurisdictions to improve outcomes for child victims of abuse or neglect.
Hammons has over 30 years experience working with and for children and families. She has been a child protective services caseworker and supervisor, teacher, policy analyst, trainer and program administrator. Before coming to Casey Family Programs, Hammons served as executive director of the Colorado Department of Human Services, an agency of over 5,000 employees, where she managed policies and procedures for county departments of human and social services. Prior to joining the Colorado Department of Human Services, Hammons was executive director of the Family Independence Agency for the State of Michigan, where she was responsible for developing and executing policies for a state- administered human services system. Hammons was also the Commissioner for New York City’s Human Resources Administration under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani from 1994 to 1996.
Casey Family Programs operates across the country and collaborates with foster, kinship and adoptive parents to provide safe, permanent and loving families for youth in foster care. The foundation also works with counties, states, and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes to improve services and outcomes for the more than 500,000 children who live in foster care every year.