Antoinette Liggins, MSW is an Associate Director of Community-Based Services in St. Louis for KVC Missouri. In her role, she provides supervision and management to a team of social workers/ case managers, and students working with children and families in the Foster Care System. Antoinette has been with KVC for seven years.

Antoinette earned her Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of North Florida and her Master’s in Social Work from Florida State University.

She has more than ten years of experience working with youth, the community, and the child welfare system. Prior to taking on the role of associate director, she worked as a foster care case manager, lead foster care case manager, foster care supervisor and CA/N investigator.

Her experience also includes work with LGBTQA+ youth providing HIV testing, counseling, and medical case management. She also managed a youth clinic that provided testing and treatment for youth infected with HIV and/or STI/STD. She facilitated a youth support group for unhoused and HIV-positive youth as well as provided substance abuse case management and counseling to youth ages 18-26 who also engage in survival sex work. Antoinette managed a housing program for unhoused minority women directly affected by HIV by providing stable housing and mental health case management services.

Prior to her time in child welfare, Antoinette served for ten years in the Navy, where she volunteered as a mentor to youth and as a sexual assault victim intervention (SAVI) advocate.

“This is what I am meant to do, I know it sounds cliché but this is my calling. I started out as an engineering major switching between chemical and electrical engineering until I took a sociology class where they talked about social work and it changed my life. Devine intervention lead me to the field but my faith keeps me here. Every day I wake up with a purpose which is to help those in need, serve my community, love my family, and care for my furbabies.” -Antoinette Liggins