Alyson MacKenzie is the Director of Accreditation at National Children’s Alliance, and manages the accreditation process for Child Advocacy Centers throughout the country. Previously Alyson was the Senior Program Associate of Accreditation at NCA as well as Program Associate at NCA, managing grants and membership for the Southern Region of the United States. She has a Master’s Degree in Social Work and a Certificate in Human Service Management from Boston University. Ms. MacKenzie has years of experience providing training and technical assistance to Children’s Advocacy Centers across the country.

Alyssa Todd worked as an Investigative Social Worker for Vermont CPS for almost five years, then moved to Philadelphia for grad school, where she continued to work with youth in foster care. She moved back to Vermont and became the Director and Forensic Interviewer of a small Associate Member center in Brattleboro, VT in 2012. In 2016 the Center became fully Accredited with NCA under Alyssa's leadership. Alyssa joined NCA in September 2019 as a member of the accreditation team, and assisted with the most recent revision of the Standards for Accredited Centers.  Alyssa provides training and technical assistance to CACs as they navigate the accreditation process.  She is particularly interested in forensic interviewing and vicarious trauma.  

Sarah Coker-Robinson is the Senior Program Associate for Member Engagement.  Her background is in political science and paralegal studies, but she has also had some experience in the non-profit world, working with undeserved youth in Wilmington, DE.  She started at NCA in 2015, working in the Grants department then moved to the Membership department playing an integral role in the review process for Associate, Affiliate, and Satellite membership applications, as well as helping members gain access to all member benefits, including our social platform + learning tool - NCA Engage!

Geoff Sidoli, LCSW, is the current National Training Fellow and past Coordinator for the National Children’s Alliance Institute for Better Mental Health Outcomes.  He assists CACs around the country developing, implementing, and sustaining mental health services including ones for children and youth exhibiting problematic sexual behavior (PSB).  Prior to coming to NCA, Geoff was the founding director of the Mountain CAC in Asheville, NC where he supervised a clinical department that assessed and treated trauma and PSB utilizing multiple evidence-based/supported models, including a PSB model that he developed.  Geoff is a national trainer in the Care Process Model-Pediatric Traumatic Stress screener and co-developed and trains an enhancement of TF-CBT for PSB.  He is a clinical member of the Association for the Prevention and Treatment Sexual Abuse (ATSA) as well as a Fellow.  He sits on ATSA’s child and adolescent committee as well as the ethic’s committee.  He also trains and consults regionally and nationally on the topic of sexual abuse, assessment, and treatment.  Geoff is also NCA’s Training and Technical Advisor for PSB and facilitates NCA’s youth with problematic sexual behaviors national work group.