Hope Conference Speakers

Sheryl Brissett-Chapman, EdD, MSW, ACSW
Executive Director
The National Center for Children/Families

Sheryl Brissett-Chapman, EdD, MSW, ACSW, serves as the Executive Director of the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF) in Bethesda, Maryland. NCCF provides residential and community-based services for abused and neglected adolescents, for victims of domestic violence, and for homeless and impoverished families and their children in the Washington-Baltimore, National Capital region. Formerly, she was the Associate Director of Clinical Services, Research and Administration, Division of Child Protection, Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC, where she led a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals. She also served as assistant professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine, and as Senior Consultant and Founding Director for the Child Welfare League of America’s Training Institute.

Dr. Brissett-Chapman has managed and provided organizational and individual consultation to numerous agencies and professionals serving diverse populations in a variety of settings. She has published and presented internationally on topics relating to substance abusing mothers, substance exposed infants, children in poverty, homeless women and depression, juvenile delinquency, child victimization, cross-cultural responsiveness, organizational development and systems reform in child and family welfare and juvenile justice.

Educated at Brown University, receiving a BA, Dr. Brissett-Chapman co-founded the national award-winning Rites and Reasons Black Arts Society, under the mentorship of George Houston Bass, a protégé of Langston Hughes. Later, she obtained her Masters of Social Work from the University of Connecticut, School of Social Work. She completed her Masters of Education, Administration, Planning and Social Policy, and her Doctorate in Education at Harvard University. Dr. Brissett-Chapman is a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers.

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