North Carolina Local Leadership
Youth Villages Local Staff
Annie Smith
State Director – Community-Based Programs
John Horton
Director – Development
Local Board
Community leaders serve on Youth Villages’ North Carolina Board 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.
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
Meredith Buckner
Registered Radiologic Technologist/MRI
Mission Hospital
Laura Crago
HR Training & Development Director
Givens Estates
Jospehe 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
Social News
Big thanks to IAm1Cent for kicking off our 30th annual Soup Sunday. Join us today at FedExForum!
Big thanks to FM100 Memphis and Papa John's Pizza for their Cards for Kids project. This made Valentine's Day extra special for the kids in our care!
Thank you to all who took part in the second annual Viewing Party to celebrate the GRAMMY Awards®! We are especially grateful to our founder, Steven Tyler, and Aerosmith for their unwavering dedication to helping brave and courageous girls heal. #JamForJanie
Kyle is looking for a forever family, and our goal is to get his post shared 200 times to help spread the word on adoption. Will you help by sharing with your friends and family? bit.ly/2GCFKS5
I was 58 when I adopted my son. He was almost 8. He finished college and has a great career. He is happy and grateful to have been in a loving home. Why is everybody so hung up on “age”? Can’t imagine my life without him. He is a wonderful young man. Jean
Kyle is such a sweetheart! I hope he finds his forever family ❤️
Handsome boy with a great smile. I would adopt but am too old at age 75
I wish I could adopt .. I would .. I’m too old 😢
Very handsome
Amanda Drake are you aware of this organization?
I wish I had the resources to adopt. Maybe someday I will. Until then I will pray for others you are seeking to adopt.
What a smile!!! Wishing him all the very best!
Prayers
How old is Kyle
Good luck Kyle.
I have an adopted son... and such a Blessing he has been! Blessings.. I would but I’m too old now, you need a young Mom and Dad!!
Jeff Gordon!!!
If it weren’t so expensive just to adopt and I heard cost plays a roll also had a boss adopt his grand child and the cost was out rages and it was family
My husband and his sister were adopted. We are going to be celebrating with their family this weekend A-day instead of valentines. They are now in their forties
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻praying for a mom and dad❤️
Good looking kid , I wish you all the Best 😊
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I wish I had adopted sooner. Children are such a gift., We have a home that could give a child a good life . I wish we were not so old.
Email sent
Handsome young man! God Bless him❤️
Looks like my grandson
Sharing now
I have an adopted daughter. Believe me it's truly a joy. If I was younger I would take him. God will find him a loving home.
Beautiful young man! Everyone deserves a family! Hope this helps!
WREG Live at 9
More than 50 of some of the best restaurants in town are all coming together for a good cause.
Youth Villages' Soup Sunday will raise money for a Mid-South mentoring program this year.
