Founder - Kevin Campbell is an internationally known youth permanency expert and founder of the Center for Family Finding and Youth Connectedness. Kevin developed Family Finding, a set of strategies being used throughout the United States and in the Province of British Columbia to find lifelong supports for children and young people in foster care. He has been an administrator, director, and vice president of private social service agencies for 21 years. He has also provided technical assistance to Vancouver, BC, Canada, 40 states and many other jurisdictions throughout the United States, including Chicago, New England, Washington DC, North Carolina, Philadelphia, North Dakota and 14 California Counties. He has spoken on the issues of youth permanency throughout the United States and has also published a number of articles on family finding and youth permanency. In addition, family finding was presented to the United States Supreme Court in 2004 and to the US House of Representatives in 2008. Kevin’s work has been featured on CBS 60 Minutes with Leslie Stahl, as well as in the Wall Street Journal and other publications in the United States. Mr. Campbell is currently an independent technical assistance consultant.

Mr. Campbell currently colaborates with Seneca Center to provide training and technical assistance on the implementation of Family Finding. Kevin's work has been featured on CBS 60 Minutes with Leslie Stahl, as well as in newspaper articles published around the country.

Director - Robert Friend, LCSW Currently the Director of the National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness at Seneca Family of Agencies, Bob was previously the Director of the California Permanency for Youth Project (CPYP). Bob is also the Co- Chairperson for the statewide Permanency Task Force, and is a member of the Co-Investment Partnership Group Advisory Committee. He is a member of the California Child Welfare Council's Permanency Committee, and recently completed an assignment as a State Team Co-Chair for the Breakthrough Collaborative Series on Independent Living Program Transformation in California.

Bob has worked in the field of child welfare for over 30 years with a Bachelor's in Psychology from Rutgers University with a Masters in Social Welfare from the University of California. His varied work experiences in the field include: direct line worker and manager in residential treatment; a family reunification worker; a social worker and manager for Casey Family Programs; and as an Assistant Regional Director overseeing practice for Aspiranet.

Trainer - Kelly Lynn Beck, J.D. Currently a Trainer with the Center for Family Finding and Youth Connectedness at Seneca Center, Ms. Beck was previously the Senior Program Manager for the Child Victims Act Model Court Project at the National Council for Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCFCJ), Permanency Planning for Children Department. Prior to working at the NCJFCJ, Ms. Beck was the lead Attorney for the Permanency Project at the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC), Center for Families, Children and the Courts as well as a Judicial Review and Technical Assistance Juvenile Consultant.

Preceding her work with the AOC, Ms. Beck was a court-appointed attorney representing parents and guardians in Juvenile Dependency Court. She previously represented adoptive parents, relative caregivers, stepparents, guardians and grandparents in child custody proceedings. She has conducted many county collaborative workshops, judicial officer trainings, State and county focused strategic planning sessions and trainings for dependency and delinquency stakeholder groups. Some topic areas include Permanency Planning for Foster Youth, Paternity, Family Finding, Family Reunification Strategies, Concurrent Planning, Family Reunification Strategies, Parent Representation, Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption.

Trainer - Mike Mertz, MS has worked at Seneca Center for Children and Families for the past 25 years.  He is currently the Director of Clinical Services for both the Seneca San Francisco Community Treatment Facility and the Oak Grove Center for Family Connections.  These residentially based programs serve adolescents who have been discharge from many placements over the years and find themselves disconnected from the outside community.  Mike has trained and supervised around the Family Finding model for the past 7 years within Seneca Center.  More recently, Mike has been travelling the country teaching Family Finding to social service agencies and private providers.  He is also teaching a model of engagement with family members that stresses collaboration and a focus on a view of strengths that is intentionally based.

Trainer - Beverly Kyer, MSW, CSW, ACSW Beverly has been a Public Speaker and Educator for more than 27 years with specialties in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; the Trauma Impact on Brain Development and Learning in Children and Youth, and Compassion Fatigue, AKA Vicarious Trauma. Beverly has served as the EAP Employee Assistance Program Coordinator, and the Assistant Chief of Social Work Service, Bronx N.Y. Veteran's Administration Medical Center. She has served nine years as a Social Worker for Casey Family Programs. Beverly's mission is to inspire understanding, empathy, capacity and determination for all who will help children and youth on the road to healing and a permanent place and people called home.

Currently a contract trainer for Seneca Center and Family Finding, roles in her career include Readjustment Counseling Therapist, Psychiatric Social Worker, Social Work Field Placement Supervisor; Clinical Social Worker/ Program Coordinator/ Social Work Supervisor; Assistant Chief of Social Worker Service and Grief and Trauma Counselor and Consultant. Beverly's participatory training style creates an interactive and collaborative learning environment focused towards seeking answers.

Search Specialist/Trainer – Clif Venable Clif recently joined Seneca Center’s National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness after working the last ten years at one of the largest Internet search companies. During that time Clif worked in sales, customer service, product development, data acquisition, and his passion: searching. Clif originated the family finder program at USSearch where he conducted close to 15,000 relative searches for over a hundred state, county and private child welfare agencies in forty states.

Clif participated in the Keynote address at the Child Welfare National Data Conference in Washington, DC in 2008 where he discussed efforts to help foster children displaced by Hurricane Katrina reconnect with family members. Clif helped develop the search aspect of the family finding practice with Kevin Campbell which influenced the development of the diligent search requirement for relatives of children in foster care evidenced in the Fostering Connections to Success Act of 2008. Some of his searches, in affiliation with Kevin Campbell, were featured in the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and 60 Minutes as well as numerous daily publications. These searches were also featured in Kevin’s appearances before the United States Senate during the legislative hearing process for the Fostering Connections to Success Act .

Clif brings his passion for searching and family finding to the NIPFC to help start the first non-profit to offer customized internet search services. Clif is available to train on using fee based and free internet search services as well as all aspects of database searching.

Coordinator - Kelly Anderson Kelly began her work in the field of mental health in 2005 at a Residential Group Home in Davis, CA. From there she continued her work at one of Seneca Center’s Community Treatment Facilities and later their Center for Family Connections where she eventually moved into the developing wraparound program. It was during this time Kelly was introduced to the world of family finding and found her passion for the work. After working with a wraparound team who experienced successful outcomes with family finding Kelly became a believer and an advocate for the positive results family finding can provide to a family and youth. After six years working directly with children and their families, Kelly is now the Family Finding Coordinator for the National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness at Seneca Center. It is here Kelly is able to dedicate her time supporting a team of experts in the field. Kelly is also currently working toward her MFT degree and hopes to continue to stay dedicated to the work of family finding and connectedness.