Meg Brin Director, New York State Child Welfare/Child Protective Services Training Institute

As administrative director of the New York State Child Welfare/Child Protective Services Training Institute, Meg Brin oversees an extensive range of training programs delivered by CDHS statewide, including those offered through the CDHS Adolescent Services Training Program to prepare local district and voluntary agency staff to work with youth with the goal of self-sufficiency. She supervises the work of nearly fifty child welfare trainers at CDHS regional offices and outstation sites across the state and also serves as director of the New York State Mandated Reporter Program. Additionally, she is responsible for contract administration and provides oversight of CDHS child welfare conference facilitation for the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS). She also oversees the work of CDHS curriculum developers who create new course offerings to fulfill sponsor needs and continuously update existing curriculum offering so that they will be optimally reflective of best practices and legal mandates.

Meg brings a wealth of child welfare experience and expertise to her present role, which she assumed in 1999. After joining CDHS as a child welfare training specialist in 1983, she delivered a wide variety of courses, including Common Core training, Mandated Reporter, and Working with Alcohol/Substance-Abusing Families, as well as training for foster parents in areas such as substance abuse, sexual abuse, and depression and suicide issues. Before joining CDHS she worked for a local district agency providing adoption, foster care, and child protective services and for agencies specializing in residential treatment programs for adolescents, alcohol and drug abuse, and preventive services.