Paul Levine, CEO

Paul Levine is the Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of one of New York City’s largest multi-service not-for-profit human service providers, the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services.  JBFCS is a non-sectarian agency with 175 programs and 80 locations.  He is a licensed clinical social worker with post-graduate certification in psychoanalysis.  He has been at JBFCS since 1982 with management experience in the operation of out-patient mental health clinics, children’s residential treatment services, developmental disabilities residential services, family preservation, out-patient and residential services to adults with chronic mental illness, children’s day treatment services, and domestic violence shelters.

Mr. Levine sits on the boards of New York State’s child welfare provider association, the Council of Family and Child Caring Agencies (COFCCA) and is the President of the New York State Coalition for Children’s Mental Health Services.  He is also a member of the Mental Health Advisory Board of the Child Welfare League of America.  He is considered an expert on the interface of mental health and child welfare.

Mr. Levine received his MS in Social Work in 1968 from Columbia University.  He spent the next seven years working with blind and otherwise disabled adults and then moved toward developing mental health clinical and managerial expertise.  In 1980, he received a certificate in psychoanalysis from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health.