Jason Hooper, M.S.W. is the President and Chief Executive Officer of KVC Health Systems, a Kansas City area-based organization recognized as a national leader in mental health and child welfare. KVC is a network of nonprofits working to strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and help both children and adults achieve mental wellness. KVC has one of the nation’s broadest continuums of care, with services including preventative education, in-home family therapy, foster care, adoption, outpatient behavioral health, youth substance use treatment, and children’s psychiatric hospitals. KVC has over 1,600 team members at 38 locations in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky, and West Virginia and provides consultation and training across the U.S. and around the world through its KVC Institute.

Jason has been with KVC for over 28 years, beginning with 8 years of direct service helping children and families, followed by 7 years of management and 13 years of senior leadership. He is one of only two CEOs the organization has had in its 53-year history.

In his prior role as President of Camber Children’s Mental Health (previously known as KVC Hospitals), Jason managed a psychiatric hospital system that each year serves thousands of children and adolescents experiencing depression, anxiety, trauma, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts, and other mental health crises. In seven years, Jason more than doubled KVC Hospitals’ revenue and diversified the client base to serve private families and military family members in addition to children in the child welfare system. These positive business changes came about while achieving strong safety and wellbeing outcomes such as safely reducing lengths of stay, increasing child stability after discharge, and maintaining a low readmission rate. Jason also expanded Camber’s consultation and community education, with its core leadership team of experts and its thriving learning environment that trains hundreds of students and professionals each year.

Jason champions a culture that is neuroscience-infused, trauma-informed, data-driven, team-oriented, and unafraid to lean into the curve. He recognizes KVC has a unique opportunity to lead national trends in areas such as integrated healthcare, the unfolding lessons of brain science, the importance of evidence-based practices, and the need to innovate constantly.

Jason holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Kansas and bachelor’s degrees in psychology and sociology from Baker University. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for Baker University.

He can be found on Twitter @jasonrhooper and on LinkedIn. More information about KVC Health Systems here.

Read more about Jason in our blog post: To Evolve, We Must Involve: A Conversation with Jason Hooper of KVC Health Systems

Erin Stucky, Chief Operations Officer, has worked with KVC Health Systems for over 25 years, helping children and families through many different roles. She joined KVC as a case manager immediately after earning her bachelor’s in social work, and after continual development and experience at every level, has risen to this senior leadership position. Erin’s journey at KVC has included promotions from case manager to supervisor in 2001, to regional director in 2005, then to President of KVC Kansas in 2008, Executive Vice President of KVC Health Systems in 2012, and COO in 2016. She is a product of the kind of leadership cultivation in which KVC takes great pride.

As Chief Operations Officer, Erin helps to improve outcomes for children and families by working in partnership with the executive team to provide vision, leadership, and management necessary to successfully implement the strategic plan throughout the corporate infrastructure and its five subsidiaries.  She also directly oversees the Human Resources, Marketing/ Communications, and Ball Event Center teams. She relies on the experience she gained in her early days with KVC, just after Kansas became the first state to privatize child welfare services in 1996, to ensure excellence.  She learned from the ground up as the process unfolded and as both KVC and the state continually raised the bar in service outcomes and delivery.

Erin also was a fellow in the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Child and Family Fellowship, an executive leadership program that develops leaders to improve life circumstances and create positive outcomes for children and families.

Erin is licensed as a clinical social worker and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, the same university where she earned both her undergraduate and master’s degrees in social work.

She can be found on Twitter @Erin_Stucky and on LinkedIn. More information about KVC Health Systems is here.

Read more about Erin in our blog post: Authenticity and Compassion: A Conversation with Erin Stucky of KVC Health Systems

Chad Anderson is Chief Clinical Officer of KVC Health Systems where he oversees all clinical behavioral healthcare services the organization provides to children and families across the U.S. He also provides leadership for the KVC Institute for Health Systems Innovation which uses neuroscience, technology and evidence-based practices to transform the experience of childhood for all children. He is passionate about prevention, both as it relates to mental health and preventing suicide, and as it relates to child welfare and safely preventing the need for foster care.

Chad began working for KVC as a residential therapist and intake social worker in 1999. Over the last 23 years, he has served in many roles including Clinical Treatment Supervisor, Lead Clinician for In-Home Evaluations and Treatment, Permanency Director, Director of Outpatient Clinical Services for KVC Kansas, Director of Clinical Services for KVC Hospitals, Vice President of Clinical Services for KVC Kansas, and ultimately President of KVC Kansas. In that role, he led a team of over 700 people building a child welfare system that is safe, secure and stable. He also ensured the services were family-centered, connected to the community and focused by evidence-based practices. Chad led the integration of trauma-informed care into the Kansas foster care system, an endeavor which was the subject of a five-year study from Child Trends and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This trauma-informed care work, known as “Bridging the Way Home,” was shown to positively impact children’s wellbeing and placement stability.

Chad received his bachelor’s degree in psychology with a minor in sociology from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and his master’s in social work with a specialization in mental health from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

He can be found on Twitter @chadandersonkvc and on LinkedIn. More information about KVC Health Systems is here.

Lonnie Johnson is Chief Information Officer at KVC Health Systems, a national leader in behavioral healthcare, child welfare, and community health and wellness. As CIO, Lonnie leads three teams working to improve healthcare delivery through technology: Information Technology (IT), Information Solutions (IS) and Enterprise Systems Management (ESM).

Lonnie oversees daily system operations which span from building and supporting KVC’s custom client management software used for case management, foster/adoptive family matching, medication management, mileage tracking and other purposes, to a robust technology infrastructure that supports the productivity of over 1,500 staff at 33 locations across the U.S. Due to his leadership, Lonnie has reduced technical cost and improved services using innovative approaches. Through strategic planning, his teams developed a technology roadmap that moves KVC into the future as an industry leader and top competitor in the behavioral healthcare space. He is known as a positive, results-driven leader who motivates his teams to success.

He has been with the organization since 2000, first as a Software Developer, then Director of the Applications and Software Development Department, and most recently as Vice President of Business Information Technology. This broad experience over 20 years means that Lonnie has gone from creating small applications for KVC’s individual business units to crafting a strategic vision for KVC’s technology agency-wide.

Prior to joining KVC, Lonnie worked as a private software consultant for AT&T, Kansas City Power & Light and various small businesses. He also managed the Reports and System Scheduling Department at Kemper Financial Services. Lonnie started his career in Information Technology as a Software Project Manager in 1988 for DST, Inc.

Lonnie is also the founder and executive director of Growth Ministries, Inc. which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting people in prison due to felony convictions transition back into society through social, spiritual and educational programs and events. GMI’s goals are to reduce recidivism and to keep communities safe.

He can be found on Twitter @LonnieJohnson and on LinkedIn. More information about KVC Health Systems is here.

Read more about Lonnie in our blog post: Empowering the Helpers: An Interview with Chief Information Officer, Lonnie Johnson

As Chief Financial Officer at KVC Health Systems. Lohe is responsible for all financial accounting for parent organization KVC Health Systems and its seven subsidiaries. KVC Health Systems employs over 1,500 professionals at 33 locations in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky and West Virginia. Its primary services are in-home family support, foster care, adoption, behavioral healthcare and children’s psychiatric hospitals.

Lohe has been with KVC for over seven years, previously serving as Executive Vice President of Finance. She has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit accounting.

“It’s a privilege for me to be a financial leader and advocate to our subsidiaries who provide vital child and family services,” said Lohe. “Our subsidiary leaders are experts in mental health and child welfare-related services and I look forward to working closely with them on ensuring financial success of both their current services and future opportunities and partnerships. Since innovation is part of our DNA here at KVC, we are launching new value-based models for delivering healthcare. We help health and human services excel at caring for people with the most complex needs through a proven model that improves their health and their experience of care while reducing costs.”“Sherri has dramatically elevated the quality of our accounting team in her six years at KVC,” said Jason Hooper, President and CEO. “She has a proven track record of excellence and brings the ability to tend to the needs of today while anticipating and preparing for what the future might require in the constantly changing landscapes of behavioral health and child welfare. I am thrilled to welcome her to our Executive Team where she will help strengthen the future for KVC and the communities we serve.”

KVC’s services are supported by a diverse array of funding sources including federal grants, state government contracts and grants, partnerships with primary health and managed care organizations, foundations, businesses and individuals.

As General Counsel, Cheryl Marquardt oversees all legal matters related to KVC’s services including in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption and children’s psychiatric hospitals. She has been with KVC since 2015 and also serves as HIPAA Privacy Officer. Read more about Cheryl here.

Dr. Linda Bass became President of KVC Kansas in January 2019. Bass, pronounced “boss,” has been with KVC Kansas for 12 years. She previously served as Vice President of Clinical Services and Well-being, leading KVC’s foster care prevention programs (family preservation), intensive in-home services (aftercare support following each child’s safe family reunification or adoption), and outpatient behavioral healthcare. As President, she now also oversees foster care case management, KVC’s network of foster and adoptive parents, and all other services.

“Linda is extremely competent, operates with strong values and morals, and always places children and families first,” said Jason Hooper. “She is exactly what we want our leaders to be in that she is a consummate professional and always working to raise the bar for service quality. She is driven by achieving outcomes for children, and as President, Linda will leverage her wealth of clinical and programmatic expertise to create brighter futures for the children and families we serve.”

Bass is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist with expertise in the treatment of trauma, sibling abuse, and child behavior problems. She has worked in child welfare for nearly 20 years. Prior to KVC, Bass worked in child placing, kinship care and residential care. At KVC, Bass led several research-backed initiatives including the implementation of the Kansas Intensive Permanency Project (KIPP); the Kansas Adoption Permanency Project (KAPP); and the creation and growth of an Engaging Parents/Developing Leaders group for parents involved in the child welfare system. She is also a thought leader on the groundbreaking Family First Act which increases funding for foster care prevention by keeping children with their families whenever safely possible.

Bass earned her bachelor’s and master’s degree from San Diego State University and doctoral degree from Loma Linda University. She has published in the areas of sibling abuse, clinical process and practitioners’ perceptions of implementing evidence-based practices.

Bass’s vision for KVC Kansas includes an expanded focus on prevention services, safely reducing the number of children in foster care, and increased support for caregivers and staff.

Bobby Eklofe is President of Camber Children’s Mental Health where he leads strategy and operations and provides oversight to all leaders within a network of nonprofit children’s psychiatric hospitals and residential treatment centers serving Kansas and Missouri.

Throughout his 30-year career in behavioral health, most of that with Camber and the KVC Health Systems family of nonprofits, Bobby has gained experience working in residential services, psychiatric hospitals, social services and school settings. He has held positions in a range of disciplines giving him a well-rounded understanding of the psychiatric treatment environment, including direct patient care, human resources, training, staff development, hospital administration and executive leadership.

Bobby participates in many local and state committees in Kansas to advocate for community behavioral health needs and is a longtime member of Kiwanis. He currently serves on the Kansas Governor’s Behavioral Health Services Planning Council Children’s Subcommittee and the Kansas School Mental Health Advisory Council. He previously served as co-chair of the Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) Stakeholder Committee, Wyandotte County Children’s Services Coordinating Council, Child Abuse and Neglect Conference Planning Committee, and the Kansas Children’s Alliance Training Committee.

Bobby earned a master’s degree in health services administration from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

“There is no better job and fulfillment than to have the opportunity to work for families and children and support them through life’s ups and downs. You can’t replace that. Once you get a taste of it, you want to continue that feeling of knowing you’re helping others and investing in their futures. I am joined by a passionate, multi-disciplinary team of professionals that is here to serve families and children with compassion!” – Bobby Eklofe

Gina Klyachkin, MSW, LCSW, LICSW is the President of KVC Behavioral HealthCare Kentucky, Inc. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Klyachkin served as the Vice President of Operations at KVC since 2012. 

Ms. Klyachkin has eighteen years of experience in direct service provision, clinical oversight, program development and implementation in the areas of behavioral health treatment, substance use treatment, child welfare programming, and therapeutic foster care.

She graduated from DePauw University in 2000 with a BA in Psychology and earned a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Missouri in 2003.  She began her career in adult protective services and home visiting programming in Indiana and delivered Family Preservation Services in Missouri. In 2005 Ms. Klyachkin joined KVC Behavioral HealthCare Kentucky, Inc. where her passion for behavioral health and child welfare programming converged.

Since joining KVC, Ms. Klyachkin has held many service and leadership roles ranging from direct services to clients to program management, culminating in her previous appointment as Vice President for Operations across all KVC programs in 2012.

Her areas of interest include child welfare programming, clinical social work, staff development, and organizational implementation of new programming. Along with presenting on leadership, teamwork, and behavioral health at national conferences, Ms. Klyachkin participates in public/private sector workgroups dedicated to improving child welfare, including the Kentucky Children’s Alliance.

Brent Lemon is the President of KVC West Virginia. He currently oversees administration of programming and program implementation. He works closely with directors and staff members to increase productivity and program outcomes. He also works closely with community partners, building alliances and advocating for needed services for children and families in the state of West Virginia.

Mr. Lemon came to the organization (it was then called Croney and Clark) in August of 2000 as an Impact Plus Clinician. Through the years, he has worn a number of hats and worked with each of our programs in this agency. His favorite part of work is the design, development and final implementation of projects. His best days at the agency are when the projects and initiatives come to fruition. Whether it be Chart Online or a newly funded program, he enjoys being an active participant in creating positive change in the organization. Having the freedom to be able to actively brainstorm and create solutions to enhance systemic change is invaluable.

Ashley Brown is President of KVC Nebraska. She was previously Vice President, and has been with KVC since 2009.

Prior to her work at KVC, Ashley worked in child welfare in a variety of capacities including foster care, in-home services and outpatient mental health services. Ashley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, with her BSW from the University of South Dakota and her MSW from the University of Nebraska Omaha. Born and raised in South Dakota but a proud Nebraska resident for over 15 years, Ashley serves the needs of Nebraska children and families including her current status as the Past Chair for the Family Focused Treatment Association Nebraska Chapter, President for the Nebraska Association of Homes and Services for Children, and an appointed member of the Normalcy Task Force for the Children’s Commission. Ashley was a recipient of the Nebraska Association of Homes and Services for Children “Kevin H. Orr Supervisor of the Year” award in 2012.

In her current role as KVC Nebraska’s President, Ashley continues to support child welfare reform in Nebraska, focusing on safety, permanency, and wellbeing by assisting in the oversight of KVC’s child welfare and juvenile justice programs, the growth of KVC’s services to the developmental and intellectual disabilities population, and prevention services.

Lindsey Stephenson, LSCSW, is President of KVC Missouri. This nonprofit includes KVC Niles, which has a strong 140-year legacy of providing children’s behavioral health programs in the heart of Kansas City, MO, as well as a range of community-based services for children and families such as pre-service training for adults to become foster and adoptive parents, training on trauma-informed caregiving to support youth with higher needs, mental health treatment, and education. Learn more at www.kvcmissouri.org.

Lindsey Stephenson has been with KVC for over 15 years. She was previously Vice President of Operations for KVC Kansas based in Olathe. In this role, she led a team that dramatically grew community support for children who are in foster care due to abuse or neglect, increasing the organization’s foster and adoptive families by 78%, from 500 to 892 homes. KVC Kansas sponsors more foster and adoptive families than any other organization in the state, making it more likely that children can be matched with a family in their home community rather than experiencing educational disruption. She also expanded community partnerships, such as collaborating with Global Orphan Project’s CarePortal to create Protective Homes in Kansas and working with community mental health centers and churches to strengthen families and safely prevent children from entering foster care.

Stephenson and KVC have been on the forefront of child welfare best practices including creating trauma-informed care, reducing residential care of children, and helping children and teens grow up in families through evidence-based family strengthening and mental health services. KVC’s historic first-ever creation of trauma-informed foster care was examined in a five-year study with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Child Trends and Dr. Glenn Saxe of New York University. In addition, KVC implemented the philosophies of the Family First Prevention Services Act decades before it was federal law. For example, KVC helped right-sized congregate care of Kansas children in foster care from 30% in 1996 to just 4% in 2013. Knowing that “children grow best in families,” KVC has sought residential treatment only for children with higher mental or behavioral health needs.

Stephenson led the transformation of KVC’s youth residential center in Kansas City, KS into a Qualified Residential Treatment Center (QRTP), in line with the Family First Act. This treatment center is licensed to care for up to 16 adolescent youth with mental and behavioral health needs at a time by offering comprehensive services and helping them successfully transition back to family-like settings with relative caregivers, foster family homes, or their birth family homes.

In addition to overseeing KVC Kansas’ Child Placing Agency (CPA) and QRTP, she oversaw its Admissions, Quality and Data Management, and Community Outreach teams. Stephenson received her graduate and undergraduate degrees in social work from the University of Kansas.

Michelle Lawrence is the first President of the KVC Foundation, a subsidiary of KVC Health Systems. The vision of the KVC Health Systems family of nonprofits is to ensure every person is safe and connected to a strong family and a healthy community. To bring this vision to life, the KVC Foundation seeks strategic investments and donations from multiple funding sources – federal, state, private foundations, corporate foundations, and individuals – to support medical and behavioral healthcare, social services and educational programs and initiatives that strengthen families and communities. Philanthropy allows KVC to be agile and innovative in its approach to strengthening families, preventing child abuse and neglect, and helping people achieve mental health wellness.

Michelle Lawrence has been with KVC Health Systems for 7 years, most recently as Vice President of Development. She successfully led multiple KVC capital campaigns and program expansion initiatives, securing more than $20 million in her tenure to help open the KVC Institute for Health Systems Innovation; KVC Hospitals Wichita, a 54-bed acute children’s psychiatric treatment center; a renovated KVC Niles and more. Most recently, Wichita’s Hope Lives campaign and its generous supporters helped address the urgent shortage of children’s psychiatric treatment beds throughout Kansas at a time when youth suicide and other children’s mental health needs were climbing. In addition to capital campaigns, she oversees the foundation team that helps to secure millions through federal, state, and local grant funding, KVC’s signature fundraising events, planned giving, and stewardship.

Michelle has over 29 years of experience in healthcare, nonprofit resource development, child advocacy and community outreach. Prior to KVC, she served as Senior Director of Community Giving for the Saint Luke’s Foundation, where she created a robust foundation program for Saint Luke’s South Hospital. She also served as Senior Vice President for Community Development at Sunflower House where she helped grow revenue tenfold.

She earned her bachelor’s degree from Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) and Rockhurst University and her Certification as a Fund-Raising Executive from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Bloch School of Business. Read more about her here.

Renny Arensberg is Executive Vice President of KVC Health Systems, a leader in child welfare and behavioral health with 1,600 team members at 38 locations nationwide. KVC provides in-home family support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, and children’s psychiatric hospitals. Over her 17 years at KVC, Renny has become known for her unique combination of energy, insight, agility and authenticity that motivates her teams to high achievement and meaningful results for tens of thousands of children and families each year.

In 2019, Renny shifted from leading KVC’s administrative Shared Services teams – Human Resources, Marketing & Communications, Development, Facilities and its Ball Conference Center – to launching a multi-year employee engagement initiative. She established a strong foundation for the needed culture shift by gaining executive and business unit leader endorsement for a partnership with Gallup. Renny generated urgency around value proposition for increasing employee retention, and created a vibrant mix of 9 trained Engagement Champions who are embedded in local teams. She branded the Q12 campaign with the tagline “Share Your Voice and Be Heard” and has conducted five agency-wide surveys now, achieving 90% employee participation in the latest one. First year results showed improvement in every aspect of engagement including a 19% increase in engaged employees. Renny is also a Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach, and is transforming KVC into a strengths-based organization having trained hundreds of associates. Ultimately, she’s a leader known for creating change one manager at a time through energy, leadership, creativity and the belief that you can have a great job and a great life.

Prior to the employee engagement role, Renny grew KVC’s fundraising events to over $550,000 million annually and completed a $6 million capital campaign; successfully rebranded the organization; implemented a comprehensive HR information system; oversaw risk management, health insurance and other employee benefits; and launched the Ball Conference Center into a revenue-producing entity to support KVC’s charitable mission.

Before joining KVC, Renny worked at Aquila, the multinational electricity and gas distribution firm. She provided strategic human resources consulting, specializing in leadership and coaching.

Renny received her master’s in human resources from Central Michigan University and her bachelor’s from the University of Kansas. She serves on the board of Support Kansas City and the Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri. She’s also involved with the Junior League, the Women’s Foundation of Greater Kansas City, Rotary Club, Community Health Charities and other volunteer opportunities benefiting educational and charitable causes.

Dr. Anh Vinh has been with Camber Children’s Mental Health for more than four years and serves as the Executive Medical Director of Medical & Nursing Services. With evidence of how childhood trauma is correlated to chronic illnesses and addiction, Dr. Vinh focuses on combining her physical health expertise as a family physician with Camber’s and KVC’s world-renowned behavioral and mental healthcare services. This collaboration allows Camber to move beyond assessments and meaningfully address long-term health issues in individuals and communities.

Additionally, Dr. Vinh enhances Camber’s health and wellness programs to improve clinical outcomes for both clients and employees. She performs both regional and national research related to integrated healthcare and models of service provision, suggests clinical pathways to monitor health and wellness outcomes, provides guidance on the growth of technology platforms that prevent medical risks, and develops protocols influenced by evidence-based and best practice guidelines.

Professional affiliations include the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Vinh received her medical degree from the University of Kansas Medical Center and completed her residency in its Department of Family Medicine. She is also a Kansas Reynolds Program in Aging Faculty Scholar.

“As a primary care physician, I was trusted with patients’ stories of their deepest traumas. Some of these same patients were hardest ones to care for due to illnesses and addictions. All physicians knew there was a backstory of trauma in our hardest patients before ACEs studies, but when those studies were published, we finally had help in defining exactly what trauma and resilience does to our physical health.

“I work with some of the most traumatized children in Kansas. Some of these clients have been neglected or experienced other trauma and as a result, they neglect their own physical health. Camber and KVC are unique in our emphasis on trauma-informed care and focus on the future health impact. Caring for this extremely vulnerable population, and the possibility of making a real impact on their future health, is why Camber will be the future of how we view chronic illness and prevention.” – Dr. Anh Vinh

Jenny Kutz is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for KVC Health Systems, a national leader in mental and behavioral health and child welfare. The team she leads operates as an internal creative agency serving 8 different business units who employ 1,600 people at 38 locations. The team is responsible for developing and implementing strategic communication plans, creating inbound and content marketing campaigns, generating leads and achieving program growth, supporting major fundraising events, advancing internal communications, elevating interactive/social media engagement, spearheading media relations and more.

Jenny has over 20 years of marketing experience in a diverse set of environments. She was previously Marketing Manager at fast-growing tech company Rhythm Engineering (Lenexa, KS), Director of Communications at international nonprofit WorldServe international (Washington, DC), and spent several years as a marketing consultant to more than 40 businesses (Raleigh-Durham, NC). She is active in community and professional organizations including the Greater Kansas City chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (GKC-PRSA). She received her undergraduate degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL. You can find her on Linkedin and on Twitter @jennykutz.

Venkata (Ven) Rao became Vice President of HR at KVC Health Systems in December 2021. In this role, he provides support to all KVC’s local teams nationwide that employ 1,600 professionals at 38 locations nationwide. Ven is a human capital executive who has worked in two continents and three domains of life insurance, education, and health care. In this role spanning two decades, he has worked with in-person, distributed and remote teams to design, develop, and implement people solutions at workplaces. In health care, he has worked with state operated mental health hospitals and not-for-profit organization operating in intellectual and developmental disability services.

Ven has been a student and practitioner of life-long mission of learning newer ways to connect and work with people to help them achieve their full potential. As a mental health advocate, his areas of interests, explorations, and pursuits originate from the life philosophy of “bloom wherever you are planted.” He uses big data and lean six sigma methodology to thoroughly research and then develop human-centered solutions for individual, team, and organizational impact.

In addition to his work-life, Ven is actively involved as guest faculty at health care education organizations, sharing the experience and knowledge in strategy and performance management. He has been invited to share his workforce solutions at various state and not-for-profit conference settings.  He is currently pursuing his Ph. D in Human Capital Management at Bellevue University, Nebraska and will be working with the university’s Human Capital Lab to explore best practice solutions in optimizing individual and team performance skills.

Dr. Abyssinia Washington Tabron, PsyD, is Vice President of Clinical Engagement and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion + Belonging at KVC Health Systems. In her role, she is a leader in the KVC Institute as well.

Dr. Aby is a clinical psychologist who evaluates and treats children and adolescents who have been victims of trauma. Her primary area of expertise is child abuse, neglect and sexual exploitation. She has served as a professor at the George Washington University’s Forensic Psychology program, an expert witness on child trauma and abuse in courts, and clinical director at a child advocacy center. She is a consultant with the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Youth Opportunities Initiative. In private practice, Dr. Washington provides mental health care for children, adolescents and young adults with severe trauma histories. Dr. Washington earned a Doctorate in clinical psychology from the George Washington University, a master’s of education in counseling psychology from Howard University and a bachelor’s in psychology from Spelman College.

Tabetha Vance is Vice President of Finance. She oversees accounting and financial operations for all of KVC’s local teams in five states.

Suzanne Lohrbach, PhD, is the Executive Director of the KVC Institute for Practice Improvements and Innovations in Child and Family Services. In this role, she leads a broad team working to transform the experience of childhood and improve the wellbeing of children, families and communities. The KVC Institute focuses on developing creative solutions to complex social problems, and translating research into practice by developing practical learning tools for direct service providers, educators and families. By accelerating research and the adoption of evidence-informed practices, the KVC Institute plays a key role in strengthening families, healing children who have experienced trauma, improving the health of those with mental health needs, and creating a brighter future for people across the country and beyond.

Sue Lohrbach has a combined 30 years of experience working and supervising practice in public child protective services and child, adolescent, and adult mental health. She consults and presents nationally and internationally on differential response systems in child welfare, intervention in high-risk child protective service delivery, domestic violence, family involvement, youth development, research-to-practice initiatives, and group supervision in child welfare systems.

Sue received her BA from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa; her MS in Community Counseling from Winona State University in Minnesota; and is currently a PhD candidate in Social Work at the University of Minnesota. She is licensed in the State of Minnesota as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker.