Lisa Mishraky-Javier

Lisa Mishraky-Javier, LMSW, is a Senior Associate working to advance CSSP’s public system reform efforts, focusing on the use of data and research to inform policy, decision making and best practices. Lisa has expertise in child welfare system reform, positive youth development, protective factors, co-design and constituent engagement, implementing anti-racist policies, and leveraging data for equity and action. Lisa’s systems reform work includes providing technical assistance to state and local child welfare systems operating under federal consent decrees. She also leads CSSP’s national initiative on expectant and parenting youth in foster care and has helped child welfare systems develop mechanisms to meaningfully engage youth in policy and practice decision making; developed approaches for engaging youth and other stakeholders in efforts to build capacity for systems change. Lisa co-developed the Youth Thrive Survey™, a valid and reliable youth self-report instrument that measures the presence, strength, and growth of the Youth Thrive Protective and Promotive Factors as proxy indicators of well-being.
Prior to working at CSSP, Lisa served as a curricula developer, trainer and coach focused on child welfare best practices at the Research Foundation of the City University of New York’s Institute for Professional Development in Human Services. She also served as Director of a child welfare prevention program and a homeless shelter for families in New Yor City.