Meet the Newly Elected Officers of the Board for 2022 - 2024 |
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Rear Admiral Wayne Justice (Ret.), Vice Chair |
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Andrew Walters, Treasurer |
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Charles Nash, Esq., Past Chair |
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Congratulations Class of 2022 |
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This is a special opportunity to celebrate and to congratulate our graduating seniors in our Independent Living Program (ILP). You have demonstrated that goals and dreams can be reached with determination, opportunities and support. Warmest congratulations from all of us at Crosswinds and best wishes on your new journey!
Kailyn, graduated from Viera High School. Her plans are to attend Eastern Florida State College and then transfer to the University of Central Florida. She would ultimately like to become a nurse practitioner.
Isaiah, graduated from Melbourne High School. His plan is to participate in the Brevard Learners Achieving Successful Transition (B.L.A.S.T) program through Brevard Public School to gain skills that can help him find stable employment.
Hunter, graduated from Brevard Private Academy with honors. His plans are to work part-time and attend Eastern Florida State College.
Marshall, graduated from Palm Bay High School. His plans are to work for a year, then when he turns 19, he plans to enroll in the police academy as he wants a career in Law Enforcement.
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2021 Crosswinds Staff Awards |
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Crosswinds recently recognized staff members for their outstanding achievements in 2021 and several members were honored for their dedicated length of services, including: Karen Locke, Chief Operating Officer, and Verna Salis, Senior Youth Specialist (15 years), Ann Fosburr Independent Living Services Coordinator, and
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Violette Jean, Staff Accountant, (10 years), Mike Scully (Director of the Juvenile Assessment Center) and Robin Wilson, Senior Youth Specialist, (5 years).
Also, congratulations to Myrna Peterson-Weimann (Clinical Supervisor) for receiving special recognition for her tremendous work with our children, youth and families, Shenelle Roberson (Independent Living Specialist) for the Tortoise Award for perseverance and dedication, Cherish Lawson (Administrative Assistant II) for the Dale Carnegie Award for Positivity, Michele Cassel (Independent Living Specialist) Employee of the Year Award, Tatianah Smith (Senior Case Manager) for Case Manager of the Year Award, Rosa Footman (Counselor) for Counselor of the Year Award, Rikki Krupczak (Senior Youth Specialist) Youth Specialist of the Year Award, the Transitional Living Program for Program of the Year Award, and Mike Scully for President's Award for Excellence.
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Congratulations to the
CYS Dale Carnegie Graduates
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Crosswinds is very excited to announce that 14 staff members have graduated from the internationally-praised Dale Carnegie Training. Our members participated in this unique in-depth 12-week course on Effective Communications and Human Relations which focused on helping Crosswinds staff to master the communication skills necessary to strengthen interpersonal relationships, develop a commanding attitude, and instill confidence and enthusiasm in the workplace.
Many congratulations to Crosswinds staff members for cultivating and enhancing your skills and completing the course with flying colors. Graduates include: Kathleen Bailey (Program Assistant), Pierre Bandoo (Compliance Administrator), Michele Cassel (Independent Living Specialist), Raylene Coe (Director of Street Outreach), Lynn Cowart (Chief Financial Officer), Donna James (Senior Youth Specialist), Violette Jean (Staff Accountant), Cherish Lawson (Administrative Assistant II), Karen Locke (Chief Operating Officer), Ana Loyselle Landron (Counselor), Lawrence McCalla (Counselor), Tatianah Smith (Senior Case Manager), Rosa Thompson (Counselor), and Olivia Wedekind-Rafiq (Executive Assistant).
Dale Carnegie is the global leader in workplace trainings and development skills. “We are very fortunate to have this exceptional opportunity for our staff, and we tremendously appreciate the incredibly generous gift from Ken Roberts, CEO of the Dale Carnegie Training of Central Florida, a long-time friend of Crosswinds,” said Jan Lokay, President and CEO of Crosswinds.
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Thank You for Making a Difference |
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Elevation Church volunteers and Crosswinds Staff. |
We are very excited and so thankful to have received a surprise gift of $10,000 from Elevation Church in Melbourne. This very generous donation will help make an impact in helping change lives and create opportunities for young people to succeed.
For over six years, the caring and dedicated members from Elevation Church have volunteered many hours with the youth at the Robert E. Lehton Children’s Shelter, providing their time and talents with many fun activities such as cookouts, movie night, playing music and learning how to write songs, providing holiday dinners, STEM Projects and more. Also, they have donated additional proceeds to our programs and services, as well as gifts for the holidays and other miscellaneous items for homeless youth in need.
Thank you for giving joy to many children during their most challenging time.
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A big thank you to Variety - The Children's Charity of Florida for the generous heartfelt gift of $2,500 to provide artistic activities and food for the youth in the shelter. Throughout our years of partnership with Variety, many youth have benefited and enjoyed expressing themselves through painting, music and other visual arts in a fun and positive way. |
L to R: Richard Goldstein, Fundraiser Director for Variety; Misty Campbell, Director of Development for Crosswinds; Vivian and Jack Gilliam (Jack is a Past President of Variety of the U.S.) and Marshall Cohn, Board President of Variety. |
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Recap of the 24th Annual
Great Brevard Virtual Duck Race
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Spotlighting Some of Our Ducktacular Partners |
L – R: Shirley Price Buchanan, Victory Casino Cruises; Kevin Ivey, Ivey’s Construction; Scott DeMasso, Space Coast Honda; Sue Eastling and Staff at Sunrise Bank; Troy Lotane and Staff at Lotane & Associates. |
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Thank you to some of our Quacktacular Volunteers |
L – R: CCU volunteers and Lora Keating. |
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History was made for the 24th Annual Great Brevard Victual Duck Race with 13,000 ducks being adopted and over $135,000 raised! The proceeds will help us continue to work diligently to provide essential services for hundreds of children, youth and families in crisis.
Many, many thanks to our sponsors, duck adopters, volunteers, Board and Staff! We so appreciate the generosity and the incredible participation that you gave in making this event the greatest success of all time. We look forward to the continued incredible community partnership.
A special thank you and recognition to the Space Coast Daily team for airing the virtual duck race to thousands of viewers for the past 3 years and for the tremendous support you have given to promote the duck race for over six years.
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Giles Malone, Partner
Maverick Multimedia Inc.
Brevard Production Inc.
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Thank You to Our Sponsors |
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Congratulations to the Top Duck Teams! |
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A huge congratulations to these Top Duck Teams for getting the most ducks adopted throughout the community. Each top duck team received a distinctive duck trophy. |
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Community Credit Union Staff members |
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Top Bank is Community Credit Union for the 5th year in a row! This dedicated team led by Laurie Cappelli got over 1,600 ducks adopted. Also, congratulations to Katrina Hancock for leading the way in duck adoptions individually for the 2nd year. (Duck trophies were presented to Lesli Dooley, COO and Katrina Hancock, staff member of CCU).
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L to R: Aaron Frisbee, CIO and Lisa Cullen, CFC |
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Top Community Team is the Brevard County Tax Collector’s Office (Team known as the Quack Collector) has won 5 times! This great team led by Lisa Cullen got over 600 ducks adopted!
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Top Team at Crosswinds is the Transitions Team. This awesome team with the help of the youth in the Transitional Living Program and volunteers of the Open Table group got 444 ducks adopted!
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Marycarol Lyons and Cherish Lawson, CYS Staff |
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Kudos to Marycarol Lyons (Ducks for Youth team) for placing 2nd and Cherish Lawson (Serenity's Team) for placing 3rd place at Crosswinds!
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L to R: Scott DeMasso, Owner of Space Coast Honda and Kimberli Trader, Grand Prize Winner of a 2-year free lease on a 2022 Honda Civic |
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We are asking if you would please help in our annual Back to School Drive for the 2022-2023 school year to support the youth served by Crosswinds programs. Your efforts will help ensure that children and youth will be ready for the new school year.
How You Can Help
- Please take a look at the school supply needs below. Items can be dropped off at Crosswinds starting July 11th – July 29th, at 1407 Dixon Blvd., Cocoa, Building C, in the lobby from 8:30 am – 4 pm Monday – Friday.
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Shop for school supplies online on Amazon by clicking this link CYS Wish List
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Amazon Smile
AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon that lets you enjoy the same wide selection of products, low prices, and convenient shopping features on Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price to Crosswinds.
We would very much appreciate it if you designate Crosswinds Youth Services, Inc. as your organization of choice.
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Crosswinds Youth Services, Inc.
321-452-0800
www.crosswindsyouthservices.org
A COPY OF THE OFFICIAL REGISTRATION AND FINANCIAL INFORMATION FOR CROSSWINDS YOUTH SERVICES, INC., A FLORIDA BASED NONPROFIT CORPORATION (REGISTRATION NUMBER: CH70) MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE DIVISION OF CONSUMER SERVICES BY CALLING TOLL-FREE 1-800-HELP-FLA (1-800-435-7352) WITHIN THE STATE, OR VISITING THEIR WEBSITE www.800helpfla.com. REGISTRATION DOES NOT IMPLY ENDORSEMENT, APPROVAL, OR RECOMMENDATION BY THE STATE.
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