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Jeffrey Chin, MSW, LCSW, is a senior executive and non-profit administrator with over 30+ years of leadership experience in nonprofit organizational management, social services, mentoring, higher education, social work, and community counseling. He has held numerous teaching, professional training, and certified instructor positions. In 2022, he was appointed executive director (New England Chapter) for Blue Star Families, the nation’s leading nonprofit serving military and veterans families. Before taking this position with Blue Star Families, Chin served as the chief executive officer for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Massachusetts and Metrowest for nearly nine years and additionally served as executive director of Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services, Inc. before this role. He currently serves on variety of boards and councils, including chair of the Governor’s Advisory Council for Veterans Services (Massachusetts), chair for the board of directors for Massachusetts Nonprofit Network (MNN), and the board of corporators for the Greater Worcester Community Foundation.
Additionally, Chin has served on the board of directors for the United Way of Central Massachusetts, and on the steering committee for the United Service Executives group of Central Massachusetts. Chin also currently serves as adjunct faculty for the graduate School for Social Work at Boston University.
Chin is a 1994 graduate of Wheaton College (Norton, MA) with a degree in psychology, as well as a master’s in clinical social work from the Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW) at Boston College. Chin received his honorary doctorate (LLD) from his alma mater, Wheaton College, on May 18, 2019.
Chin is also an active public affairs officer of the U.S. Navy Reserve, with the current rank of lieutenant commander. He has served tours at U.S. Central Command/Navy Central Command, Fifth Fleet in Bahrain; Navy Public Affairs Support Element, East (NPASE-East), based out of Norfolk, Virginia.; Chief of Information (CHINFO), out of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.; U.S. Fleet Forces Public Affairs; Navy Public Affairs Support Element, Midwest (NPASE-MW), out at Great Lakes, Illinois; and perhaps most foremost, completed a nearly yearlong deployment tour to Resolute Support Headquarters (RSHQ) in Kabul, Afghanistan. During his 2018 tour at RSHQ then Lieutenant Chin served with distinction as media operations director under General John Nicholson and later, General Austin Scott Miller, both of whom served as Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Chin’s personal and unit decorations include the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, U.S. Navy & Marine Corps Overseas Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve (Mobilized) Medal, National Defense Medal, U.S. Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and NATO Medal.