Meredith McKeen, MSSW, serves as Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS)’s Vice President of Programs, supporting the organization’s Multicultural Center, Youth Initiatives, Community Health, Child and Family Wellbeing, and Healthy Families program areas. A bilingual social worker with more than 30 years of experience, Meredith specializes in trauma recovery, disaster response, mental health, and violence prevention and intervention services for children, youth, and adults. Meredith has a particular focus on supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence; human trafficking; child abuse and neglect; and community violence.
Throughout her career addressing the impacts of interpersonal and community violence and other crises, Meredith has specialized in providing services to Spanish-speaking and Latinae populations; and in providing training and capacity building to other youth and family serving professionals, with the goal of ensuring that immigrants and their family members have access to appropriate and effective services through a responsive and collaborative system of care.
In her role at NVFS, Meredith is also responsible for the implementation of Trauma Informed Organization approaches, ensuring that NVFS provides an accessible and effective array of holistic language- and culture-specific trauma-recovery, mental health, case management, intervention, and prevention services. She also helps to ensure that program staff members are well equipped and supported in their service provision roles.
Meredith earned her master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin and her bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary. She grew up in Fairfax County and is active in several community organizations and coalitions, including serving as the Vice Chair of the Fairfax County Council to End Domestic Violence.