Melea Rose-Waters Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Adjunct professor for social welfare policy.

United States

In my role, I was responsible for leading the comprehensive planning and execution policy priorities for a national organization. This includes developing and implementing annual policy agendas at both federal and state levels. I have a strong track record of identifying and nurturing strategic alliances with national and state coalitions and advocates.

North Carolina

In 2019 I was promoted to the role of Policy Director. My background in community organizing, advocacy, partnership engagement, and strategic planning brought a unique combined skillset to the position. Policy work was still relatively new to the organization and I was tasked with developing a strategic vision for the policy work, including determining.

Raleigh, NC

As the Senior Partnership Engagement Manager at PCANC, I worked with partners in Cumberland County (Fayetteville), North Carolina to create the first evidence informed framework to develop a Community Child Abuse Prevention Plan in the state. You can read more about the SOAR team here: https://ccpfc.org/partners/community-child-abuse-prevention-plan/ and.

Triangle Area

I started out with NC MomsRising as an intern as part of the MSW program at UNC-CH. I created this internship when I was searching for a unique way to reach family/life balance during graduate school. After finishing my internship, I was hired on as 1 of 3 paid staff for all of NC MomsRising. We are very small, but we work from grassroots to grasstops, and.

Chapel Hill, NC

The first year of the MSW program I interned at UNC Family Medicine as a Care Manager for the (at the time) only social worker for the practice. Working with families and individuals who came into the practice was very rewarding. I was able to assess patients within a person-in-environment framework, not only focusing on the outward (or medical) symptoms.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I worked for Time Together, the supervised visitation and monitored exchange program that is one of the services offered at Triangle Family Services. Many of the clients were court ordered to participate in services, where visitation with their children was monitored in house, or the exchange between parents was facilitated by trained staff. Bullet.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

I worked for Costran as a Substance Abuse Counselor, starting out as an intern (paid) as I went through the licensing process for the LCAS (which I did obtain). I led substance abuse groups, conducted assessments, and taught alcohol and drug education classes (ADETS).

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

We relocated to Raleigh from the Atlanta area for a job opportunity for my husband. I was hired temporarily to work for the City of Raleigh at the water treatment plant. They kept me way past the initial temporary period, for which I was thankful! I worked in the office doing purchase orders, answering the phone, updating databases, filing, and general.

Master Of Social Work (Msw), Community Management And Policy Practice

Activities and Societies: Ambassador to SSW - 2012-2013 Student Representative for CMPP Faculty Committee - 2011-2013 Macro Caucus

Public Leadership Certificate

In 2021 I started the Public Leadership Credential at Harvard Kennedy Business School.

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology