Crystal
Ward Allen
Executive Director
Crystal
is a Licensed Social Worker, and holds a Master’s degree in Social
Work from the
Ohio
State
University, and an undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech. She is also a
graduate of the Senior Executives in State and Local Government
program at
Harvard
University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and of the Executive
Leadership Institute at the
Voinovich
Center
for Leadership and Public Affairs at
Ohio
University.
She
has been involved in extensive legislative advocacy and public
policy development for PCSAO in the areas of child welfare, kinship
care and welfare reform. She has worked in the fields of juvenile
justice and child protection in
Virginia
and
Minnesota
as a direct service professional, and with the private child placing
sector in
Pittsburgh.
Crystal
also has considerable knowledge and experience in the areas of the
rule making process, strategic plan development, research and
analysis, media and public relations.
Crystal
is active in a variety of community service activities and
occasionally teaches as an adjunct professor at the
College
of
Social Work
at
Ohio
State
University.
Crystal
created and was project manager for the first four PCSAO Factbooks.
She started at PCSAO in 1991 as a student intern and never left.
Crystal
has been the Executive Director since 2001.
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