Lindsay Ciavarelli

Lindsay Ciavarelli, MS, currently serves as the Director of the Center for Maternal and Young Child Health for Groundwork Ohio. A passion area for her is serving as the Statewide Coordinator of the Safe Babies Court Teams in three counties across the state, working to provide comprehensive child welfare interventions at the court level for families with children aged 0-3. Lindsay brings to Groundwork over 12 years in the nonprofit and public health sectors improving outcomes for children, mothers, and families. With significant experience providing hands-on child welfare services, to overseeing a complex system of home visiting to decrease the alarming infant mortality rate, she has remained steadfast in her commitment to building programs that positively affect families in real time. Most recently, Lindsay served as a Senior Manager of Business Development and Government Relations with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, assisting to scale programming across the U.S. and Canada to help children in foster care find permanency through adoption. In her current role with Groundwork Ohio, she leads advocacy and policy efforts to craft, advance, and scale policies and programs that increase access to high-quality interventions for pregnant women and young children, including infant and maternal mortality prevention, ACEs and trauma, child development, home visiting, school readiness, and many more.

Lindsay received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology and Urban Sociology with a minor in Psychology from Otterbein University, where she proudly graduated as a Continuing Studies student. Lindsay also received a Master of Science degree in Human Services Leadership from Northeastern University in 2016.