OUR ADVISORY TEAM
Our Advisors bring deep expertise, global insight and practical guidance to Their Future Today at a pivotal moment for child protection reform in Sri Lanka. Together, they help strengthen our strategy, challenge our thinking and ensure our work remains safe, ethical and effective, always putting children and families first.
We are also proud to be supported with technical expertise from Hope and Homes for Children and UNICEF, alongside specialist training from Lumos, helping us apply international best practice as we work to prevent family separation, strengthen alternative family care, and protect children through robust safeguarding and high-quality standards.
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Dr Vasundhra Om Prem
Alternative Family Care Lead - Sri Lanka
Dr Vasundhra Om Prem is a child protection specialist with over 20 years’ experience supporting safer, more effective care systems for children. She is Managing Director of the Centre of Excellence in Alternative Care and serves on the Board of the International Foster Care Organisation (UK).
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With an academic background in Law and extensive practical experience in non-institutional, family-based care, Dr Om Prem brings deep expertise across juvenile justice, foster care, kinship care, aftercare, and restorative justice. For the past five years, she has delivered training and technical support to stakeholders across India, Sri Lanka and Mauritius, strengthening knowledge and practice in alternative family care, restorative approaches, and standards of care in residential settings.
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Dr Om Prem is also familiar with a wide range of foster care models used internationally, helping governments and organisations adapt proven approaches to local contexts.
Her guidance supports Their Future Today’s mission to help build a future where every child can grow up safely in a family — not an institution.
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Myrna McNitt
Alternative Family Care Lead - Sri Lanka
Professor Myrna McNitt teaches social work and sociology at colleges and universities in Michigan, Illinois and internationally. She teaches across the curriculum, with a focus on human development, clinical practice (including models of best practice), and policy development.
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Professor McNitt is a licensed social worker in Michigan, qualified to practise at both micro and macro levels, and is a member of the National Association of Social Workers Academy of Clinical Social Workers, approved at a high level for clinical practice. She holds a BA from Michigan State University and a Master’s in Clinical Social Work from Western Michigan University, and began her career in juvenile justice and child protection.
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With extensive global experience, Professor McNitt brings deep expertise in child protection and alternative care, and has actively supported efforts to end the institutionalisation of children. Her work has taken her across Africa, the UK, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka and Bulgaria, promoting children’s rights as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
She is a life member of the International Foster Care Organisation and serves on its Board of Directors, and is honoured to serve on the Azerbaijan Social Work Public Union.