Joe Kroll, an adoptive and birth father and proud grandfather, became involved with NACAC in 1975 and served as NACAC's executive director from 1985-2015. As executive director, Joe moved  NACAC from a small grassroots organization to an acclaimed nonprofit that serves thousands of adoptive parents each year and strives to improve the child welfare system for foster children and the families who care for them.

 

As a passionate advocate for children, Joe’s work included talking with individual families about how to obtain post-adoption support, training parent group leaders and other foster and adoptive parents, and testifying before Congress and speaking at the White House to achieve needed system reforms to better serve vulnerable children and families. He remains committed to achieving system reform by building a network of adoptive families at the grassroots level. By bringing together parents, professionals, and policy makers for more than three decades at NACAC, Joe significantly improved the lives of adoptive families throughout the U.S. and Canada.

 

In 2016 (January-May)and then again 2018 (July-November ) Joe served as the interim director of Voice for Adoption as VFA transitioning to a new executive director. He continues to serve on the VFA board as the financial manager.