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

Kelly Betz, Community Relations Coordinator

Morgan Casey, Program Support Supervisor

Janet Chesser-Bliss, Office Manager

Maria Engle, Education Supervisor
Brenda Henry, M. Ed, Compliance Director
Mercy Hernandez, Communications Coordinator
Carson Johnson, Donor Services Coordinator
Emily Korman, LCSW, Group Home Director
Nikole Lockhart, M.A., LPC, Supervised Independent Living Director
Jessica McKay, LPC-S, Senior Clinical Director
William Metz, Operations Director
Amy Price, Development Director
Renee Randolph, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Human Resources Director
Elise Sheets, Foster & Adoption Program Director
Tessa Voyles, M.A., LPC, Residential Treatment Center Director
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
Cynthia Sandall, President
Kim Belew, President-Elect
Emily Sheehan, Immediate Past President
Lara Anton, Recording Secretary
Jill Zeitz, Treasurer
Laura Rice, Treasurer-Elect
Ann Palmer, Member-at-Large
Miriam Fleming
Dell Gully
KaLyn Laney
Johanna Large
Carla Lott
Jeri Mercer
Julie Morris
Tamara Palmieri
Rachel Pry
Debbie Simons
Tara Taraba
Ellen Wallace
Janet Watson
Blythe Wilson
Advisory Board
Bob Buchanan
Amber Carden
Manny Farahani
Amy Felker
Robert Godwin
Ashley Goudeau
Nancy Nash Harper
Nikita Kakkad
Russell Korman
Liz Lock
Keith Miller
Jake Newman
Jim Parker
Jessica Sacheck
The Honorable John Specia
Staci Sprayberry













