Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
PAT LAWLER
Chief Executive Officer
Patrick W. Lawler is CEO of Youth Villages, one of the largest private providers of services to troubled children and their families in the country. Under his leadership, Youth Villages has established a continuum of specialized treatment programs operated by an effective team of more than 3,000 employees in 74 locations in 58 cities. Youth Villages’ mission is to help children and families live successfully.
Board of Directors
Local Boards
Community leaders serve on Youth Villages’ Local Boards to actively promote and support our mission to help children and families live successfully and advocate proven solutions for the foster care/child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Board members play a significant role at the local level establishing Youth Villages as the leading provider of effective programs for troubled children and their families.
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Frank Cianciola
President and CEO
Banc3
Daphne Large
President and CEO
Data Facts
Lee McWaters
Broker/Owner
McWaters and Associates
Richard Miller
Managing Partner
Gullane Capital
Laura Rosas
Retired
Millington Telephone
Joel Smith
Senior Vice President
First Tennessee
Christopher Vescovo
Partner
Lewis Thomason Law Firm
MIDDLE TENNESSEE
Bill Hamburg
Co-Chair
Community Volunteer
Chris Patterson
Co-Chair
Vice President Vison Software Technologies
Lisa Small
Community Volunteer
Shannon Lapsley
Assistant Director of Community Development
Vanderbilt University
Sarah Looney
Director
UBS
Community Volunteer
Paul Dent
Managing Consultant
Cumberland Consulting Group
Ann Gilbert
Community Volunteer
Nate Kenney
Vice President of Operations
Thomas & Company
Meghan Markie
Instructional Designer, Global Sales Operations
Dell
Heather Neisen
Director of Account Services
Enliven LLC
Helen Roudi
Senior Specialist, Corporate Events and Social Responsibility
Tivity Health
Tony Sharpe
Financial Center Manager/Assistant Vice President
Bank of America
Kellye Stuart
Co-Chair
Community Volunteer
Betsy Walkup
Chair Emeritus
Pat Wallace
Community Volunteer
Jeremy Werthan
Community Volunteer
Marquis Arterberry
President & CEO
ProCore Security
Tracy Diez
Vice President of Marketing & Sales
Magnolia Federal Credit Union
Deidra Johnson
Psychiatric Nurse
VA Medical Center
Ravi Raju
Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer
Exceleron Software Inc.
Stephanie Rippee
Attorney
Watkins and Eager PLLC
Susan Smith
Pediatric Nurse
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Francis Springer
Attorney
Springer Law Firm
Frankie Springer
Legal Assistant
Springer Law Firm
Amanda Tollison
Attorney
Butler Snow
Julie Seitz
Chair
Director, Workplace 2020
The Coca-Cola Company
Edwin Cook
Vice-Chair
Attorney and Founder
Edwin Cook Law
Dara D. Mann
Partner
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Adrienne Mittons
Paralegal
Kimberly-Clark
Cynthia Parks
Founding Partner
Parks Wood LLC
Robert Rearden
Attorney
Sheley and Hall, P.C.
Matt Tarkenton
Executive Vice President
The Tarkenton Companies
Paul Zachos
Keller Williams Realty
Natalie Frazier Allen
Founder & CEO
The Arts Empowerment Project
Justin Arnall
Mortgage Loan Originator; Vice President Mortgage Bankers Association of WNC
Crew Lending – A Division of Goldwater Bank, N.A.
Tia Bethea
Community Impact Manager
Google Fiber
Laura Crago
HR Training & Development Director
Givens Estates
Josephe Featherstone
American Tobacco Campus YMCA Director
YMCA of the Triangle
Nancy “Nan” Gray
Regional Marketing Manager
Sprint
William “Bill” Roberts
President
Market Commercial Real Estate
Wendy Shanahan-Harbin
President
Asterisk Creative
Joanna Jacobson
Chair
Managing Director
Strategic Grant Partners
Peter Campanella
Yvonne Hao
COO & CFO
Pillpack
Ryan Hayden
Partner of Advanced Risk & Compliance Analytics
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Kim Syman
Managing Partner
New Profit Inc.
Paul S. Grogan
President & CEO
The Boston Foundatio
Pamela (Giasson) Lynch
Product Development Leader
TPI Composites, Inc.
Mark O’Donnell
Senior Vice President & CDO
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay
Francine Rosenzweig
Sharon Liszanckie
Executive Director
Boston Preparatory Charter Public School
Yvette Lowenthal-Mulderry
Helen Chin Schlichte
Sandra Edgerley
Beth Klarman
President
The Klarman Family Foundation
Kevin Tabb
CEO
President and CEO, Beth Israel Lahey Health
Sister Guadalupe Guajardo
Interim Chair
Province Leadership Team
Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
Bethany Bounds
Community Advocate
Adam Crowell
Broker
MetLife Auto & Life
Nicholas Ehlen*
Commercial Real Estate Broker
Melvin Mark Brokerage Company
Ian Galloway
Senior Research Associate & Oregon State Community Development Field Mgr
Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
Robin Henderson
Chief Executive, Behavioral Health
Providence Medical Group
Joanne Horstkotte
Emeritus Member
Linda Jackson-Shaw
Community Advocate
H. Patterson Ritz
CEO
Footwear Specialties Intl.
D. Colby Schlicker
Executive Vice President of Marketing
Watson Creative
Charles Swindells
Attorney
Charles Swindells Law
Senior Leadership
Patrick Lawler
Chief Executive Officer
Tim Goldsmith
Chief Clinical Officer
Greg Gregory
Chief Financial Officer
Caroline Hannah
Chief Operations Officer – Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon.
Jennifer Jones
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Operations Officer – Georgia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Tennessee
Chief Information Officer
Cliff Reyle
Chief Human Resource Officer
Managing Director – Financial Services
Tanya Anderson
Executive Director of Georgia
Anne Cannon
Program Director – Educational Services
Stephanie Cole-Farris
Executive Director – Bill’s Place
Lisa Copeland
Managing Director – Placement Services
Paul Enderson
Executive Director of North Carolina
Brittany Farrar
Middle Tennessee – Regional Director
Jessica Foster
Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships
Amanda Futral
Executive Director – Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma
Rebecca Hancock
Executive Director of Residential Services
Adeyinka Hansen
Campus Director – Bartlett
Sarah Hurley
Managing Director – Data Science
Hughes Johnson
Managing Director – Compliance and Performance Improvement
Colby Jonas
Campus Director – Dogwood
Paula Jordan
Managing Director – Support Services
Charmaine Kromer
Executive Director of Tennessee
Ann Meeks
Senior Director – Grants and Development Research
John Norris
Managing Director – General Counsel
Stephanie Pugh
Program Director – West Tennessee
Katja Russell
Managing Director of Partner Operations
Senior Director – Grants and Development Research
Annie Smith
State Director of Community Based Programs – North Carolina
Rhonda Stempkovski
State Director of Community Based Programs – Mississippi
Matt Stone
Executive Director of Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Lori Sustek
State Director of Community Based Programs – Massachusetts and New Hampshire
Jill Terry
Managing Director – Information Technology
Amanda Tillman
Regional Program Director – East Tennessee
Advisory Committees
Social News
Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund third annual GRAMMY Awards® Viewing Party was a night to remember! From the red carpet to dinner to the electrifying after-party performance by Gavin Degraw more than 500 passionate people joined together and helped raise more than $2.4 million for our important cause!
We are so proud of our girls who rocked the house with samples of therapeutic drumming and our very own Jennifer Rhodes, who was last night’s featured speaker. Thank you to Terry Crews for being an amazing host, and of course, to Steven Tyler for making everything possible and giving a platform for girls and young women to amplify their voices! #jamforjanie
Click the links below to see some of the fun:
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bit.ly/2RNzTgw
This weekend, we’re heading to L.A. with some of our girls for @iamstevent’s third annual private dinner and viewing of the GRAMMY Awards benefiting @janiesfund. Follow us on Instagram @youthvillages, and check out our stories this weekend for inside look including, rehearsals, activities and scenes from the red carpet!
Strengthening families and giving young people the support they need to move away from gang activity can make a difference in our communities. Special thanks to The Commercial Appeal columnist Tonyaa Weathersbee for highlighting this issue and interviewing Youth Villages foster parent Yolanda Tate and clinical consultant Katie Puckett in her story today.
www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2020/01/21/weathersbee-can-federal-money-end-memphis-gang-vio...
Weathersbee: Can federal money end Memphis' gang violence? Not if G-A-N-G spells F-A-M-I-L-Y
commercialappeal.com
Memphis will get $10 million to fight violent crime. Much of that crime is caused by gangs, and youths raised in gang families struggling to get out.
In an effort to promote positive parenting and prevent adverse childhood experiences consider making use of Advancing Parenting’s fifty-four parenting norms bumper stickers. Parenting messages on vehicles will be read thousands of times by thousands of people of all ages for years to come...a unique and powerful way to get quality parenting information out to the community. Sets of the stickers can be put in holders and placed on counters and tables in doctors’ offices, agencies, schools, and businesses so patients, parents, customers, and clients can choose one or more for their cars. They can also be made available to attendees at events and meetings. The best strategy is to have them laid out on three tables... and it does take three tables! Tell the attendees that they may choose one or two for their car(s). Handing them out doesn't work as well. Some folks don't put stickers on their cars and everyone who wants one will appreciate the opportunity to make their own choice. Visit advancingparenting.org for more information. 🙂
The countdown has begun!
We are so excited for this year's GRAMMY viewing party benefitting Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund. You can get an exclusive look at the festivities this weekend by following our Instagram page and viewing our stories (@youthvillages).
Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund
It’s that time of year again!
We’re just five short days away from @Steven Tyler’s Janie’s Fund 3rd Annual Viewing Party to celebrate the GRAMMY Awards.
#JamforJanie
We're just a little over a week away from Steven Tyler's third annual private dinner and viewing of the GRAMMY Awards benefiting @janiesfund!
Steven Tyler's Janie's Fund
Last year at our Viewing Party, the girls of Janie’s Fund put on a spectacular performance.
Steven Tyler's Janie’s Fund 3rd Annual Viewing Party in honor of the GRAMMYs is less than just a couple of weeks away and we couldn’t be more excited!
For more info about this year’s party, visit https://janiesfund.org/
#JamforJanie
