Michelle Miller, PhD, LCSW, LCPC, is the Director of NCA’s Institute for Better Mental Health Outcomes.  In addition to her 8 years at NCA, she nearly 3 decades of experience working in the child welfare field and over 20 years’ experience as a mental health provider. Dr. Miller spent 15 years as the founding director of NCA’s first accredited CAC in Montana and was the founding board chair for the Montana State Chapter of NCA. Michelle has over 20 years’ experience providing training and supervision to mental health practitioners. Since joining the NCA team in 2016, Michelle has worked with the Yale Child Study Center on the implementation of Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention in CACs. Michelle also works with Baylor University on training clinicians in evidenced-based assessment.  Michelle worked with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center as a co-developer of a curriculum for victim advocates on engaging families in mental health care and provides national trainings on the topic. Michelle is the co-developer of a training curriculum for CAC executive directors on mental health. Michelle is the co-author of a chapter on Evidence-Based Mental Health Services for Child Victims of Maltreatment in the book Child Sexual Abuse: Practical Approaches to Prevention and Intervention that will be published by the Child Welfare League of America in April 2023. 

Ashley Fiore has worked with CACs throughout her professional career as a clinician, clinical director, program manager, trainer, and consultant. She has assessed and treated over 2,000 children and families using Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Alternatives for Families Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (AF-CBT). Prior to joining NCA, Ashley served as clinical faculty for the North Carolina Child Treatment Program, where she trained TF-CBT and provided individual and group consultation to clinicians using a learning collaborative model. She has expertise in the implementation and dissemination of evidence-based, trauma focused, child/family interventions. Ashley is a certified trainer in TF-CBT and AF-CBT and has provided training/consultation on trauma-informed comprehensive clinical assessments, trauma-related problematic sexual behaviors in children, and implementation support of evidence-based treatment models. She received her MSW from UNC-Chapel Hill, and enjoys gardening, making pottery, and hiking in her free time. 

Erin Casey is the NCA Program Evaluation Manager and coordinates data and evaluation projects such as NCA's Outcome Measurement System (OMS), CAC and Chapter Census surveys, and data collection for some of the Institute's initiatives. Prior to joining NCA, Erin was a Professor of Social Work at the University of Washington, Tacoma, where she was involved in research and program evaluation projects related to interpersonal violence and violence prevention.

Tomiko D. Mackey is a licensed clinical social worker who has provided mental health treatment to children, adolescents, and adults since 1999. Tomiko worked for a children’s advocacy and rape crisis center, in Oxford, Mississippi for 22 years as a therapist, forensic interviewer and clinical director, supervising the forensic interview, family advocate and the mental health programs. Additionally, through National Children’s Alliance and Baylor University, Tomiko trains mental health providers throughout the nation in the use of evidence-based assessments. Currently, Tomiko is a Mental Health Fellow for National Children’s Alliance. Tomiko has also trained countless professionals in the art of forensic interviewing.

Tomiko D. Mackey received her Master of Social Work degree, with a concentration in children, youth and families, from California State University, Long Beach. She is trained in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), is a certified trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) therapist, a cognitive processing therapy (CPT) provider, and trained dialectical behavior therapy clinician. Mackey Counseling Services is Tomiko’s private telemental health therapy practice based in California and Mississippi.

Wendy A. Walsh, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes against Children Research Center, where she has worked for the past 19 years conducting research on evaluating child abuse prevention and intervention programs and the criminal justice response to child victimization. Her research areas include Children’s Advocacy Centers, Internet crimes against children, victims portrayed in sexual abuse images, and improving access to children’s mental health services. She recently evaluated the National Sexual AssaultTeleNursing Center, a pilot project to use telemedicine to bring quality forensic medical examinations to adolescent and adult victims of sexual assault in six rural, tribal, military, and underserved areas.She is the author and co-author of numerous articles about child victimization and service use, the impact of victimization, and criminal justice outcomes.