Little Flower Children & Family Services of NY Welcomes New SVP

Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York (Little Flower), a 93-year-old human services organization serving children, families, and people with developmental disabilities across New York City and Long Island, welcomed Jessica Rothkuo, MS, to its senior executive team as the new Senior Vice President of Strategy, Development, and Communications. Rothkuo brings 16 years’ experience in communications, development, fundraising, strategic planning, and cross-system collaboration.

“Jessica is a fantastic addition to the Little Flower team as she brings an exciting blend of expertise in strategic planning and will focus on strategic communications and fundraising strategy and design,” said Corinne Hammons, Little Flower President & CEO. “As Little Flower continues to adapt and grow to meet the ever-changing needs of those we serve, Jessica’s experience will be essential to ensuring we are proactive and ready to meet those needs while staying true to our organizational values. We are thrilled to have her on board!”

A new leadership position, the Senior Vice President of Strategy, Development, and Communications is tasked with guiding strategic direction related to development growth and diversification, coordination of Little Flower’s growth strategies and fundraising efforts, its policy objectives, and relationships with government officials, businesses, and community partners, and other key stakeholders.

“I am thrilled to join Little Flower and apply my strategic approach in service to New York City’s children, youth, individuals, and communities. I am fully committed to Little Flower’s culture of caring based on excellence, inclusion, and innovation. I look forward to building on the team’s strong foundation to continue growing Little Flower’s resources, partnerships, and leadership in our field,” shared Rothkuo.

Before joining Little Flower, Rothkuo served as a senior policy analyst at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, where she delivered strategy and operations consultation to federal, state, and local child welfare agencies to build their capacity for successful system transformation. Before Chapin Hall, Rothkuo served as the Senior Program Manager at the Redlich Horwitz Foundation, where she led the Foundation’s support of Family First Prevention Services Act implementation. She also previously served as a Senior Consultant with Deloitte, assisting state agencies in developing programmatic strategy and operations improvements to drive better outcomes for staff, children, youth, and families.

Rothkuo has experience as the Executive Director of Strategy, Innovation and Planning at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services, where she supervised a team responsible for guiding the implementation of strategic initiatives, including the system-level implementation of Strong Families NYC—New York’s Title IV-E waiver and the agency’s largest foster care initiative. Rothkuo began her career in child advocacy and nonprofit business development and fundraising.

To learn more about Little Flower and its Senior Executive Council, please visit www.littleflowerny.org.

About Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York (www.littleflowerny.org): For more than 90 years, Little Flower Children and Family Services of New York
has been committed to improving the well-being of children, families, and
individuals with developmental disabilities across New York City and Long
Island so they can reach their full potential. Little Flower’s staff of over
500 build well-being by providing foster boarding home care, residential
treatment care, adoption services, programs and services for individuals with
developmental disabilities, and medical and mental health services and
coordination.