Meet the Team

The Executive Director and Board of Directors are responsible for ensuring that the mission, values, and principles of WACF are carried out in its day-to-day operations.

Jill May, M.S.W.

Executive Director

Jill May, M.S.W., is the Executive Director of the Washington Association for Children & Families (WACF). Through collaborative advocacy efforts, WACF supports critical services for families so they can lead healthy, happy lives.

As WACF’s Executive Director since 2018, Jill is responsible for leadership, strategic planning, fundraising, Executive Board relations, and partner and community relations. Among multiple key responsibilities, she provides statewide child welfare private agency advocacy and leadership, including year-round, full-time state budget and policy advocacy and lobbying. Jill works for the consistent achievement of WACF's mission, advocacy agenda, and membership growth goals, and is an active, knowledgeable, and visible champion for WACF's members, and thereby, for Washington's children and families.

Before joining WACF, Jill was the Director of the National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment at AdoptUSKids. Prior to that role, she served as New Mexico’s Foster Care and Adoption Bureau Chief. She has extensive experience with foster care and adoption, comprehensive diligent recruitment, collaboration, using implementation science to create and sustain system change, and implementing a customer service approach to child welfare.

Jill has deep expertise in engaging stakeholders to improve systems and developing practice models to lead change within a child welfare system. She is a passionate leader of systems change who aims to improve outcomes for children and families.

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