Marianna Tutwiler

Marianna came to the Institute in early 2016 to be the program director. She earned both her Master of Public Administration and Master of Social Work from Florida State University. Before this position, she was with FSU's Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy, directing a multi-million-dollar project to prepare the Young Parents Project for evaluation and to educate physicians, social workers, nurses, obstetricians, and early care coordinators that serve children and families in the child welfare system about toxic stress and infant and early childhood mental health. While working 12 years for the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center at the University of South Florida, she was the principal investigator for over $10 million of contracts and awards that addressed the needs and/or evaluated the outcomes of vulnerable families. As a consultant to the Department of Health, she worked with multiple experts and wrote Florida's plan to spend $35 million in federal money for the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program.