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DR. PAGE B. WALLEY. Page Walley serves as Managing Director of Strategic Consulting for Casey
Family Programs, a multi-billion dollar private operating foundation based in Seattle whose mission is to
provide, improve and ultimately prevent the need for foster care in the United States. In this role he
works with states to reduce the number of children in out-of-home care.
Dr. Walley previously served as the Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Human
Resources and as Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Children’s Affairs. As commissioner over
the 4,500 employee, $1.3 billion department, Dr. Walley helped advance the Department to national
recognition as a leader in providing for the safety, permanency placement, and well-being of children
and families in the state. Prior to coming to Alabama, Dr. Walley was Commissioner of the Tennessee
Department of Children’s Services. He was elected to and served in the Tennessee House of
Representatives from 1990 to 2000.
Dr. Walley is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 25 years experience in the field, and is also
a licensed minister. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Davidson College and received
his master's and doctorate degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia.
H.LIEN BRAGG, MSW. Lien Bragg is a Senior Director in the Strategic Consulting Division at Casey
Family Programs. In this role, Ms. Bragg provides strategic consulting to State government officials,
policy makers, and administrators in the safe reduction of the U.S. foster care population through nonpartisan public policy research, advocacy and best practices in child welfare reform. Currently, Ms. Bragg
is the Casey Strategic Consulting lead in Alabama and Georgia. She has also served as the Casey lead in
Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi and Washington DC.
Prior to joining Casey Family Programs, Ms. Bragg served as the Project Manager for the
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Children’s Bureau’s, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect
(OCAN) National Child Abuse and Neglect Training and Publications Project in Washington, DC. Ms.
Bragg’s professional career also includes acting as the Chief of Staff and Strategic Initiatives Manager for
the Clark County Department of Family Services after Clark County, Nevada was deemed by Federal
officials “the worst child welfare system in the country” in 2006. At the National Association of Public
Child Welfare Administrators (NAPCWA) and American Public Human Services Association (APHSA), Ms.
Bragg managed Federal training and technical assistance projects on the nexus between child
maltreatment and domestic violence.
Ms. Bragg began her career as a child protection worker in Denver, Colorado and she has been
an administrator and faculty member at the University of Georgia and Florida Gulf Coast University.
ERIN STUCKY. Erin Stucky joined KVC Behavioral HealthCare, Inc. in Kansas in 1997, just as this state
became the first to privatize its child welfare services. She ultimately rose to the role of President and
served in this leadership role from 2008 to 2012. She relies on the experience she gained through these
early days with KVC to ensure excellence in her current role as Executive Vice President for KVC Health
Systems, applying this expertise to impact the entire KVC system as a member of the organization’s
Management Team.
As Executive Vice President, Ms. Stucky’s leadership in direct service-provision has given her the
necessary expertise to lead administrative functions serving numerous programs throughout five states.
Ms. Stucky is supporting the agency’s effort to improve family and child behavioral outcomes in a
number of ways - from introducing innovative, trauma-informed care strategies to focusing on bestpractice models in the area of agency infrastructure and decision-making.
Ms. Stucky is a current fellow in the Annie E. Casey Children and Family Fellowship Program.
She 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.
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DON WINSTEAD. Don Winstead is Principal of Don Winstead Consulting, LLC. He has over four
decades of state and federal experience in all phases of health and human services policy and practice.
Mr. Winstead began his career as a front-line caseworker and has worked in a variety of direct
service, administrative and managerial positions. While Deputy Secretary of Florida’s Department of
Children and Families, Don led the negotiation of the statewide Title IV-E child welfare waiver and cochaired the team that oversaw implementation of the demonstration. In his last two years with the
State of Florida, Don also served as Special Advisor to the Governor for implementation of the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act. From late 2001 to early 2005, Don served as Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Human Services Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
As a consultant, Mr. Winstead has worked in conjunction with Casey Family Programs to assist
states interested in applying for child welfare demonstration waivers. He is a member of the advisory
board for the National Poverty Centers as well as an advisor on several federal research projects. He was
the 2008 co-chair of the program committee for the National Association for Welfare Research and
Statistics and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Child Trends, a nonprofit, nonpartisan
research center that studies children at all stages of development.
SCOTT LUNDY. Scott Lundy has recently been appointed Chief Executive Officer for Arrow Child &
Family Ministries. He is responsible for providing strategic leadership for the Ministry by working with
the Board and other management to establish long-range goals, strategies, plans, and policies. Formerly
the Chief Operating Officer of Arrow Child & Family Ministries, Mr. Lundy was responsible for providing
oversight to the overall operation of all program services in 5 states, Texas, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
California and Oklahoma, including church and community relationships. He ensures quality outcomes
for children and families in programs, fiscal responsibility, and continued development of existing
programs. He also leads efforts to change behavior intervention strategies, adjust management
structure and coordinate spiritual components in treatment planning in all programs.
Mr. Lundy has 22 years of human services program development and management experience,
and is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Child Care Administrator, and Child Placing Agency
Administrator. He chaired the Public Private Partnership Committee which put forth recommendations
for a Texas child welfare privatization model. He currently serves on committees with the Public Private
Partnership, Performance based contracting and as President of Texas Alliance of Child and Family
Services.
SUSAN W. “SUZY” SONNIER. Suzy Sonnier was appointed by Governor Bobby Jindal as Secretary for
the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in June 2012. As the executive head
and chief administrative officer of the DCFS she is responsible for the policies, functions and programs of
the department. This includes managing a budget of approximately 784 million with nearly 4 thousand
employees.
Prior to her appointment, Ms. Sonnier served as Chief Operations Officer for the Louisiana
Workforce Commission (LWC), after serving in other strategic positions on the Commission. Before her
work at LWC, Ms. Sonnier served as DCFS’ Deputy Secretary of Programs following the reorganization of
the agency where she worked to reform adult and child residential licensing and child care licensing. She
also worked to recreate the state interagency council on homelessness and led the implementation of
DCFS’ office consolidation process, a key step in the agency’s reorganization and modernization.
Ms. Sonnier originally joined DCFS in September 2008 following her service as the policy director
for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. Earlier in her career, she supported early
childhood system efforts as a research instructor at the Institute of Infant and Early Childhood Mental
Health of the Dept. of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Tulane University School of Medicine from 2006
to 2008. From 2002 to 2006, Ms. Sonnier served as the Governor’s senior advisor on children’s policy
with a focus on early childhood, education, health, mental health, child welfare and juvenile justice.