Trevor John started his children services career as child protective specialist for the New York City Administration for Children’s Services in 1997. His first three years were spent investigating sex abuse cases and severe cases of abuse for the child protective diagnostic unit as part of the elite collaboration between NYPD and ACS dubbed the Instant Response Team. While protecting children he felt the need within himself to promote change by strengthening families and transferred to the Family Preservation Program, where he worked with families to try to keep their children out of the foster care system through intensive home-based intervention. It was at this time where Trevor found he had strong aptitude in this field and decided to pursue and successfully complete a Master’s Degree from Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. In 2003 he was a Panelist on Failure to Protect: A National Dialogue on Child Welfare as part of PBS/Frontline/Fred Friendly Seminars and during that same year contributed an interview profile of New York’s Child Protective Services, which aired on National Public Radio. Trevor was later interviewed by Associated Press for a feature article, “Social Worker Blues: Finding rewards in an embattled unglamorous profession.
As Trevor approached his tenure with the agency he was delighted to be accepted and serve as a Trainer at the Children’s Center of the James Satterwhite Academy, helping to advance the mission of the agency through the professional development of staff and contracted agencies. After his tenure as the Assistant Commissioner at ACS Office of Parent Support Recruitment with oversight over all aspects of foster care licensing and certification process under Office of Strategic Program Support in the Family Permanency Services Division, Trevor is currently the Senior Vice President of Campus Operations at a non-profit organization JCCA whose focus is providing behavioral health and wellness in the form of child welfare, residential and mental health services for New York’s neediest and most vulnerable children.