Program Director, Westchester Building Futures
Westchester County Department of Social Services, United States
Tara Linh Leaman currently serves as Program Director of Westchester County (NY) Department of Social Services’ (WCDSS) Westchester Building Futures. Westchester Building Futures seeks to eliminate youth homelessness among at-risk youth/young adults with child welfare/foster care histories. Westchester was one of six jurisdictions nationally to receive both the Phase I Planning and Phase II Implementation Youth At-Risk of Homelessness awards from HHS-ACYF-Children’s Bureau. Tara also helps support WCDSS’ Office of Policy, Planning and Program Development’s team of experienced child/youth welfare leaders & change agents in achieving its Family First Prevention Services Act implementation goals, laser-focused on decreasing the number of children/youth in congregate care and increasing the number of children/young people in kinship care through the lens of advancing equity.
Tara has worked internationally and nationally advancing social change, and has served as a deputy director of nonprofit serving formerly and currently incarcerated women and their families. She also served on Family Equality Council’s National Board of Advisers, is a former board member of Holt International Children's Services, which is the adoption agency that Tara’s parents adopted her from in 1974, and is Co-Founder of AmerAsians Building Bridges, Inc., a community-based organization serving Vietnamese Amerasians stateside and in Vietnam. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Georgetown Law.
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Sunday, November 13, 2022
10:45 AM – 11:45 AM