Residential director & Liaison to alpha school

Dr. Marvin Amos serves as the Residential Director of the Smoky Mountain Children’s Home and is a licensed minister with the Church of God. He brings insight to his leadership role from his experiences growing up as an at-risk youth. After receiving much healing in his grandmother’s home as a teen, he enrolled at Lee University and graduated with an undergraduate degree in 2008. Afterwards, he received a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary in 2013.

Dr. Amos completed his PhD in Public Policy and Administration with a focus on Health Policy from Walden University in 2023. The concentration of his dissertation was on foster care policy. Dr. Amos was married to his wife, Hannah, in 2006, and they have six biological children and two adopted children. Marvin Amos has served over a decade at Smoky Mountain Children’s Home in various roles, including case management and residential director. One of his most notable accomplishments has been the development of the residential treatment model, the Lillian Kinsey Model of Care.

Contact his office at mamos@smch.org