Pamela Whitney provides consultation to local and national organizations on strategic planning, team building, managing change, program and practice development, and cross-systems collaboration. She has a Master's Degree in Social Work and brings to this work 30 years of experience in family and children's services.

Pam began her career as a counselor with adolescent girls in residential treatment and as an individual and family therapist in school and community-based mental health programs. In 1983 she began working in the area of child abuse and neglect, when she joined Children's Hospital in Boston as the coordinator of the Child Protection Team and the principal social worker in the Family Development Clinic.

From 1986 until 2007, Pam worked for the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF), where she was to become the Assistant Commissioner for Planning and Program Development. She co-founded the Domestic Violence Unit, the first of its kind in the country, to address the overlapping problem of domestic violence and child maltreatment. She led the Department's efforts to promote community partnerships, to integrate family support principles into practice, and to engage parents in an advisory capacity.

Pam's contributions to the field have been recognized through awards from the Children's Trust Fund, the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and Wheelock College in Boston.