Stacy Phillips

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Dr. Stacy Phillips is a highly accomplished professional with a diverse background in social work, child and family well-being, trauma, and public leadership. She holds a Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) degree from the University of Southern California's Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Southern Connecticut State University; and an M.S.W. from The Catholic University of America. She is a licensed social worker in the states of Texas, Maryland, D.C., and Virginia. Dr. Phillips also holds an Executive Certificate in Public Leadership from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and was selected in 2023 as a Presidential Leadership Scholar.

Dr. Stacy Phillips develops and deploys effective solutions to challenging crime victimization issues as a Victim Justice Program Specialist with the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) at the U.S. Department of Justice. Leveraging her more than 20 years of experience in the victim services field, she works collaboratively across OVC’s Discretionary and Human Trafficking Teams to create, implement, and monitor a broad range of programs. Dr. Phillips has spearheaded demonstration initiatives on polyvictimization, reducing child fatalities and recurring serious child injuries, and currently leads OVC’s Enhancing Community Responses to the Opioid/America’s Addiction Crisis initiative. She also manages awards on crime victims’ rights enforcement and legal wraparound networks, law enforcement-based direct services, post-conviction initiatives, and human trafficking. As a child and youth expert with specializations in trauma-informed hope-centered practices, polyvictimization, and brain science, Dr. Phillips represents OVC on the Federal Inter-Agency Work Group on Child Abuse and Neglect and Federal Interagency School Safety Working Group. She has extensive experience writing legislation for Congress on topics such as crime victimization, violence against women's rights (VAWA), child sexual exploitation (CSEC), human trafficking, child welfare issues, and trauma.

Before joining OVC, Dr. Phillips spent 15 years responding to the needs of children and families through the child welfare system. At the DC Child and Family Services Agency, she worked on child and family protective services issues, including grants, program design and management, needs assessment, resource development, and policy development. During this time, she started the DC Parent Advisory Council, assisted in the development, and served on the Districtwide Children’s Justice Act Task Force, and helped develop the District’s Human Trafficking Task Force. Beforehand, Dr. Phillips served as a Child Protective Services Investigator in Bridgeport, Connecticut and an Investigations Supervisor in Austin, Texas in Travis County.

Dr. Phillips' expertise extends beyond her professional position within the federal government. She is CEO/Founder of IMPACT- Intervening Mitigating Preventing Adolescent and Childhood Trauma. In this capacity, she delivers hands-on support and advocacy services to children and families, develops strategic plans for intervention and rehabilitation at the public and private level, and provides training and technical assistance on trauma-informed-hope centered practices to schools and youth detention facilities throughout the country. In addition, she conducts psychosocial and behavioral assessments through court-ordered domestic relations cases such as child custody evaluations, stepparent adoptions, home studies, and expert witness testimony. She also serves part-time as an Adoption Licensing Contractor with Adoptions Together where she conducts home studies for foster-care, kinship care, and adoption licensing.

Her dedication extends beyond her professional life. She is also an Advisory Board Member with Parents with Preparedness (PWPORG). Dr. Phillips is first and foremost CEO of her home and mom to three boys and they will forever be her greatest accomplishment and the most important aspect of her life.