Kristyn Peck

Kristyn Peck is the Chief Executive Officer of West Michigan Partnership for Children (WMPC), a nonprofit organization piloting a performance-based model for foster care that is the first of its kind in the state through a contract with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). As the first employee, Ms. Peck led all start-up activities necessary to launch WMPC as a nonprofit child placing agency. Ms. Peck motivates a high-performing leadership team and provides overall direction to 19 staff; oversees an annual budget of approximately $35 million; decisions around the placement and care of more than 800 children in foster care in Kent County at any given time; and the continuous quality improvement of more than 40 subcontracted private providers of child welfare services.

Ms. Peck moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan in April 2017 for this role after working for more than thirteen years in human services on behalf of unaccompanied refugee and immigrant children and victims of human trafficking in Washington, D.C. Ms. Peck earned an M.S.W. from the University of Maryland-Baltimore and a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland-College Park.