Executive Director of community-based social service agency specializing in youth services. Oversee budget of $4.5 million, 110 employees and an active corps of over 100 volunteers. I have more than 25 years' experience in direct care with youth. For the pat 16 years I have administered Street Outreach, Basic Center, and Transitional and Independent Living programs. Our Family's youth programs include: Skrappy's, a youth-run downtown performing-arts center and clubhouse that focuses on positive youth development; Street Outreach, which helps runaway, homeless and street youth with basic needs and support to come off the streets; Transitional Housing, which maintains on- and off-site housing for parenting and nonparenting youth 18-21; Teens in Transition, which helps youth 13-21 avoid lifelong cycles of homeless through case-management, education and counseling; Reunion House, a temporary shelter for youth 12 to 17 offering respite and reunification programs; and CommonUnity, a 22-unit residential program for single parents 18-21 and their young children, which I helped develop in 2001. Our counseling services provide intensive therapy and case management for families in crisis. Our school-based programs offer anti-bullying, peer support, mediation and other training in local schools. I sit/ have sat on local, statewide and national committees that focus on youth. I am a member of our local Drug and Alcohol Commission representing youth and have participated in communitywide efforts focusing on service delivery, especially mentoring, for children of incarcerated parents. I am a peer and grant reviewer for ACYF as well as a COA accreditation reviewer.