Sonoma Valley Teen Services - Engaging • Connecting • Empowering

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Meet the people that keep Sonoma Valley Teen Services up and running!

Leadership

 

SVTS Board of Directors

Tim Boeve, President

Tim has volunteered and been employed within the Sonoma Valley nonprofit community for many years, serving briefly as Executive Director of the Willmar Center for Bereaved Children and before that for seven years as  Executive Director of the Sonoma Valley Education Foundation. Prior to that time Tim  was the pastor of the Sonoma Valley Community Church for over 17 years. Currently he is employed at Sonoma  Raceway as the Guest Services Manager, and Track Minister. Tim is a mentor, and a founding member of the Teacher Support Network in Sonoma and Transition Sonoma Valley. He  lives with his wife, Noris Binet in Sonoma has a daughter in Brooklyn, NY and  enjoys yoga, outdoor activities, and everything else that living in the Sonoma Valley has to offer.

With deep gratitude and great respect we honor Niels Chew for his service to SVTS and Sonoma Youth for the past 15 years.

Niels Chew has resided in Sonoma for thirty eight years and has been active in a long list of local non-profits. He was instrumental in the forming of the Sonoma Mentoring Alliance and Hopsice. He has been on the board of Sonoma Valley Teen Services and the Sonoma Valley Hospital Foundation. A New Yorker by birth he attended Dartmouth College and Reed College; and then spent a year working on Norwegian Ships seeing the world.

Jean Hopeman, Secretary

Jean Hopeman retired after 34 years in banking and holding positions such as the Senior Vice President and Credit Administrator-Risk Manager at Sonoma Valley Bank. Jean has been an active member for 27 years at the St. Andrew Presbyterian Church and the St. Andrew Women’s Fellowship. Since 2002 she has been a Master Gardner, teaching water wise planning and habitat and native plants workshops and a member of the Soroptimist International of Sonoma Valley for nearly fourteen years. Jean has been involved with the Valley of the Moon Teen Center for twelve years, and is one of the principle fundraisers and overseers for the construction of the new Teen Center building.

Anea Kamahele
Jim Mitchell
Robert Reyes, Treasurer
Jere V. Starks
Pat Stevens
Jerica Tercero
Walt Williams

SVTS Staff

Cristin Lawrence, Executive Director

Cristin Lawrence was Born in Denver, Colorado and lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico until moving to Sonoma in 1983. Cristin graduated from Sonoma Valley High in 1989. She received a certificate in Employment Services from the University of San Francisco, her A.A. degree from Santa Rosa Junior College and a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Sonoma State. Cristin began her career in Human Services at age 18 working as a Job Coach and Job Developer for people with Developmental Disabilities. Cristin had various positions in non-profits, including being the Employment Services Specialist for Sonoma Works Welfare to Work program; the Prevention Program Director of El Nido Teen Center; . the Program Director for Operation Youth where she ran a work-training program in the No Name Cafe at Sonoma Valley High before becoming the Administrative Director for Sonoma Valley Teen Services in 2011. She has served on the Citizen’s Action Team for Youth (CATY), The Sonoma County Tobacco Task Force, and the Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking.

James Cardenes, Teen Center Coordinator

Jodie Taylor, No Name Cafe Manager

Adrian Palenchar, Operation Bicycle Program Coordinator (operationbicycle.com)