Erika Dickerson, MSW, LSW

Erika Dickerson, MSW, LSW

Early Childhood Comprehensive System/Help Me Grow manager,
New Jersey Department of Children and Families

Ericka Dickerson is a licensed professional social worker serving as New Jersey’s Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Prenatal to Three (ECCS P-3) / Help Me Grow (HMG) Manager. Ericka has served in the arena of child welfare and prevention services for the last twenty years.  During her tenure she has served in an array of direct practice and managerial roles through evidenced-based programs inclusive of Health Families America and Early Head Start. She has also provided program coordination of a local NJ Family Success Center serving diverse expectant individuals and families with young children.  Ericka has overseen the last two iterations of ECCS, as well as the current, focusing on enhancing the maternal infant early childhood system of care through state and local partnership building and leadership with continuous quality improvement. Through all her roles, Ericka has demonstrated keen insight for developing and maintaining mutually beneficial partnerships and collaboration with federal, state, community, and family leaders, driving collective impact to enhance NJ’s maternal infant early childhood system of care.