Legacy Treatment Services Announces New Leadership

Marla Meyers is appointed Executive Director

HAINESPORT, NEW JERSEY (July 5, 2022) – Legacy Treatment Services has announced Marla Myers as Executive Director.

Marla is an enthusiastic social service leader, visionary, and fundraiser who has devoted her 30-year career to building compassionate and transformative communities. She credits the education that she received at the Rutgers University School of Social Work program as laying the groundwork for her commitment to social change.

She was recruited by Hillel of Greater Philadelphia upon finishing her graduate studies. Over the course of 23 years, she worked her way up to become the organization's Associate Executive Director and Director of Institutional Advancement, focusing her efforts on all aspects of funds development including major gifts, capital campaigns, legacy gifts, corporate relations, and grant development as well as program vision, and staff coaching.

In 2013, Marla accepted a position as the Executive Director of Jewish Family and Children's Service of Southern New Jersey, an agency that assists and empowers 11,000 individuals annually with a focus on food insecurity, senior services, special needs, domestic violence, mental health, case management, and volunteerism. During her time at JFCS, Marla instituted numerous new initiatives for the most vulnerable members of the Southern New Jersey community. Among her proudest achievements are Right In Our Backyard recently renamed One Step at a Time (an interactive panel presentation for parents and teens on the critical topic of drug addiction in the suburbs), Take the Wheel (a veteran peer-to-peer driving service), This Life Counts, (teen suicide prevention program), a safe house, 'Charlotte's Place,' for victims of domestic violence, a VISTA program to assist Holocaust Survivors and LGBTQIA+ inclusive programming for teens and seniors. In addition, Marla led efforts to open-up special needs housing at the Weinberg Commons for thirty-two adults allowing them to live independent and prosperous lives. In addition, she led her team in purchasing and renovating a new JFCS facility – the Rhona Fischer Family Assistance Building on Kings Highway – where at-risk clients who seek assistance, can find holistic, wrap-around services. She led efforts to transform the agency's fundraising platform and was able to lead the growth of 200% over a 10-year period including annual and major giving, grant acquisition, planned gifts, corporate relations, as well as a successful capital campaign.

She has been privileged to participate in SJ Magazine's women's empowerment and roundtable discussions and to have held many board positions in the Delaware Valley including the Tri-State Jewish Communal Professionals Association, the Shusterman International Hillel Foundation, and the Katz JCC as well as the NJ Association of JFCS organizations. She has been a guest lecturer at the Temple University School of Social Work as well as the Rutgers University School of Social Work.

She was recently named a 2021 Super Woman by South Jersey Magazine as well as a 2022 recipient of the Camden County Martin Luther King, Jr Freedom Medal and is currently a member of the Camden County Addictions Task Force Board, the Board of the Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey, as well as the Cherry Hill Human Relations Task Force.

Marla lives in Voorhees with her husband Dan and has two children, Jordan, and Josh, and she is looking forward to her work with Legacy Treatment Services.

"I am enormously excited to begin this new chapter in my professional career with an organization that has spearheaded transformative services for countless numbers of vulnerable individuals. The work of Legacy Treatment Services is far-reaching, providing an enormous scope of services and resources to individuals and families. The mission of taking people from 'Surviving to Thriving' speaks to me and in my new role as Executive Director of the Legacy Foundation, I hope to make great strides as we seek to develop resources that support this vital mission."

Myers will serve as Executive Director beginning July 5, 2022.