Frank Cervone

Advisory Board

pronouns: he/him

Frank Cervone is the Executive Director of the Support Center for Child Advocates, the lawyer pro bono program for abused and neglected children in Philadelphia. Previously, he was a staff attorney at Delaware County Legal Assistance Association and adjunct clinical professor at Villanova University School of Law, where he instructed law students in domestic abuse and child support litigation, and served as counsel for Saint Gabriel’s System, an agency providing treatment services for juvenile offenders. He serves as chair of the Pennsylvania Children’s Trust Fund, and chaired the Advisory Committee on Child Welfare Services, served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Adoption Law, of the Joint State Government Commission, the research arm of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. He also serves as a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Court Procedural Rules Committee. He is also a member of the board of the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance and a member of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation’s Children’s Rights Litigation Committee Working Group. He is a founder and co-director of the National Children’s Law Network. Frank is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University School of Law, and he has a master’s degree in theology and ministry from LaSalle University. He lectures and trains both lay and professional audiences in child abuse and child advocacy.