Team and Board

Leadership Team

Kinship Caregiver

Sherritta Woods

As a youth Sherritta was able to view the Child protective services based on family members being placed in foster care, and family.

Foster Caregiver

Mia Sanders

Mia Lynne Sanders, married, has been fostering since 2019 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Foster Caregiver

Whitney Yarberry

Whitney Yarberry has been a foster family since 2017. Professionally she has a master’s degree related to Instructional Design and works in child welfare.

Adoptive Caregiver

Bobbi Peterson

Bobbi, as a young single person, began fostering teens in the 1980s in a private agency, Parenthesis.

Kinship Caregiver

Georgetta Lake

Georgetta Lake worked for the development of Youth Advocate Services and became a treatment foster parent in its first neighborhood program.

Primary Parent

Veronica McNair

Veronica McNair joined our team after participation in the Succeed Program and with a call from Karen Ezirim for her to carry on the movement of advocacy for parents in the child welfare system.

Respite Provider

Theresa Johnson

BoardMembers

At Large Board Members

Board Member

Willis Brown

Willis Brown is president of the Bronzeville Neighborhood Association and an elected commissioner on the Near East Area Commission. Mr. Brown is also one of the few Bronzeville historians.

Financial Secretary

Ronald Browder

Ronald R. Browder Co-founded and directs the Ohio Federation for Health Equity and Social Justice,a 501c (3) statewide nonprofit made up of agencies, organizations and individuals concerned about minority and multicultural health, social justice and the elimination of health disparities for racial/ethnic populations.

Board Member

Georgetta Lake

Georgetta Lake was part of the development of Youth Advocate Services, one of the first treatment foster care agencies.

Board Member

Gayle Hahn

Gayle Hahn lives in New Philadelphia, Ohio. She obtained a dual masters in Social Work and Public Administration from Ohio State University.

Board Fellow

Alexandra Goss

Alexandra is a third-year law student at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Prior to attending law school, Alexandra worked as a case manager in residential foster care.

Board Member

Carole Menge

Carole Menge has a Master’s degree in Social Work and has been a voice for others in delivering direct services and various administrative roles.

Staff

Communications and Events

Ella Kulma

Administrator and Coordinator

Dot Erickson-Anderson