Meredith McKeen, MSW, is a social worker with more than 20 years of experience administering, managing, and providing the following: services to at-risk youth; trauma recovery and disaster response services; and services to domestic violence survivors and child witnesses to violence.
Throughout her career in violence prevention and trauma recovery, Meredith has specialized in providing services to Spanish-speaking and Latino populations, with the goal of ensuring that immigrants and their family members have access to appropriate and effective services.
Meredith, who holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin, began her social work career with the Victim Services Unit of the Austin Texas Police Department, providing services in English and Spanish for children and adults experiencing family violence and then worked in a domestic violence shelter for women and children in Washington, D.C. For the past 15 years her work with Northern Virginia Family Service has included: providing and managing youth violence prevention services; managing several trauma-recovery programs including the 9-11 Survivors’ Fund Project and the Hurricane Katrina Project; and providing training to staff of NVFS and other organizations.
A graduate of Leadership Fairfax, Meredith currently serves as NVFS’ Vice President, Programs overseeing the Multicultural Center, Youth Initiatives, and Healthy Families service delivery areas ensuring the Agency provides an array of holistic language- and culture-specific trauma-recovery, mental health, case management, intervention, and prevention services for youth and adults.
Contact: mmckeen@nvfs.org, 571.748.2574