Meet Terri
Terri brings tremendous talent and a distinguished record of service to children and families in the Tampa Bay Area and across Florida.
She spent nearly two decades with Gulf Coast Jewish & Family Community Services, advancing from Case Management Supervisor in 2004 to Chief Operating Officer from 2014 to 2022. As COO, she managed a multimillion-dollar budget and more than twenty programs spanning child welfare, services for individuals with substance abuse issues and mental health challenges, and elder and disability services. She also played a pivotal role in launching the Community Assistance Life Liaison (CALL) program in partnership with the St. Petersburg Chief of Police—a model that has since gained national recognition.
On July 1, 2022, Terri became Chief Executive Officer of the Children’s Network of Hillsborough, where she established Circuit 13’s new lead child welfare agency. Under her leadership, CNHC has driven measurable progress in prevention, reunification, and adoption as part of broad-based system reforms achieved in collaboration with community partners.
Her leadership and impact have been recognized statewide and nationally. She received the Community Champions Award for her work to safely reduce the number of children in foster care in Pinellas County, and in April 2022, she was honored as a Community Hero by the Tampa Bay Lightning Foundation. In March 2025, the Tampa Bay Business Journal named her one of its Business Women of the Year. Also in 2025, under Terri’s leadership, the Children’s Network of Hillsborough was named a One Tampa Bay Honoree by the Tampa Bay Business Journal. Terri is also a former Chair of the Florida Coalition for Children’s Board of Directors.
Her current service includes appointments to the St. Petersburg Police Citizen Policy Review Committee, the Leadership Circle for United Action for Children & Youth, the Board of the Community-Based Child Welfare National Symposium, the St. Pete Council of Neighborhood Associations (CONA) Youth Committee, and the Central Florida Behavioral Health Network Board. She is also a long-standing member of the National BURG Exchange, a service organization dedicated to community service, youth programs, and Americanism.
Terri holds an M.S. in Guidance Counseling and a B.S. in Criminology from the University of South Florida. She is also an alumna of Leadership Tampa Bay and a Board-Certified Child Protective Professional in Florida.
