Anthony J. Mingo, Sr. currently serves as Division Director, Community Health Development for the Fairfax County Health Department, where he manages multiple innovative upstream public health interventions that seek to improve community-based health outcomes. He formally served as Program Director of the Virginia Family and Fatherhood Initiative and its “Stronger Parents Brighter Futures” Program operated under the Virginia Department of Health’s Richmond City Health District (VDH-RCHD). In 2012, he joined the VDH-RCHD with many years of experience serving the broader community of the Commonwealth of Virginia and Metropolitan Washington, DC in family stabilization efforts by supporting and empowering parents through education.
As Program Director, Mingo facilitated the program’s strategic mission by implementing a collective impact strategy throughout Virginia collaborating with local county and city governments, faith-based organizations and community-based non-profit partners to help establish a state-wide framework to educate, empower, and economically stabilize parents and their families. The program established fatherhood and motherhood responsible parenting training support groups that were provided Comprehensive wrap-around case management services. As part of his duties, Mingo oversaw responsible parenting education sites across Virginia.  These state-wide locations were comprised of numerous Virginia Department of Health District, local government partnerships, Institutions of Higher Education, High School, and community and faith-based partner locations in Northern Virginia, Tidewater/Hampton Roads, Central Richmond/Petersburg Areas, and Roanoke Valley Areas.