Millie Sweeney, M.S., is the Deputy Director for the Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association (FREDLA). Spanning the children’s mental health and child-serving systems, she has over twenty years’ direct experience in navigating systems with and on behalf of families, advocating at both the individual and policy level, and building collaborations with professionals and systems. For twelve years, she operated as a member of the management team within a large statewide family organization, participating in the administration of six system of care sites, supporting the development of the statewide Youth MOVE chapter, and managing up to twenty local and statewide programs. She operated Family Solutions Consulting, focusing on consulting in program development, parent peer support and family driven care nationally before joining the Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association (FREDLA). First as Project Coordinator and now as Deputy Director, she specializes in grant and program development, staff supervision and training, parent peer support and family engagement, curriculum development, and systems of care. Over the past two decades, Mrs. Sweeney has leveraged both her professional experience and personal experience as a parent to assist organizations and states with system of care and family driven program development, consult nationally on certification and family/youth support services, offer curriculum and training on a variety of topics related to children’s mental health and participate on policy-making groups at the state and national level to advocate for family voice and choice in child-serving systems. She holds a Master’s of Science degree in Clinical Psychology and resides in middle Tennessee.