Leadership & Key Staff Positions
We’re proud to have made progress in diversifying our staff and recognize that we still have work to do to achieve our diversity, equity and inclusion goals.
Darcie DeShazo, LCSW, Executive Director
Morgan Casey, Recreation Coordinator
Janet Chesser-Bliss, Office Manager
Trenton Foster, Interim Development Director
Nikki Gavrelos, Volunteer & Individual Giving Coordinator
Brenda Henry, M. Ed, Compliance Director
Mercy Hernandez, Communications Coordinator
Bunny Hink, Human Resources Director
Sarah Kerrigan, Development Coordinator
Emily Korman, LCSW, Group Home Director
Nikole Lockhart, M.A., LPC, Transitional Living Program Director
Jessica McKay, LPC-S, Senior Clinical Director
Will Menjivar, Education Supervisor
William Metz, Operations Director
Stefanie Pino, LMSW, Foster & Adoption Program Director
Samriddi Tiwari, Accounting Director
Tessa Voyles, M.A., LPC, Residential Treatment Center Director
Lindsey Wilhelm, Program Support Supervisor
Megan Avery Zellner, LPC, Foster & Adoption Clinical Director
Directors Emeritae
Linda Addicks Kokemor
Remembering Bobbie Mae Matthews
Left to right: Bobbie Mae Matthews, Linda Addicks Kokemor and Darcie DeShazo
Board of Directors
Cathy Buchanan, President
Kimberly Lombard, President-Elect
KaLyn Laney, Immediate Past President
Suzanne Blackburn, Recording Secretary
Tamara Palmieri, Treasurer
Ruth Whitehurst, Treasurer-Elect
Emily Sheehan, Member-at-Large
Jill Crocker
Dell Gully
Nancy Jennings
Melanie Joseph
Shelley Putney
Barbara Salyers
Cynthia Sandall
Julie Schechter
Debbie Simons
Terri Sloan
Blythe Wilson
Nancy Woelke
Jill Zamen
Advisory Board
Bob Buchanan
Lutie Butler
Amber Carden
Manny Farahani
Amy Felker
Robert Godwin
Ashley Goudeau
Nancy Nash Harper
Nikita Kakkad
Russell Korman
Liz Lock
Keith Miller
Steve Mobley
Jake Newman
Jim Parker
Jessica Sacheck
Steve Sandall
The Honorable John Specia
Staci Sprayberry
Kathie Tovo