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Steering Committee

This committee is comprised of fifty-four members of the Alliance who were selected to represent twenty human service areas:

Funders [10 seats]

Local Funders [4 seats]

  • Community Foundation of Sarasota County (Stewart Stearns—Immediate Past Chair)
  • Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice (Kelly Morrell)
  • Selby Foundation (Sarah Pappas)
  • United Way of Sarasota County (Alex Young)
  • Local Government [3 seats]

    • City of North Port (Monica Becket)
    • City of Sarasota (Phillip King)
    • City of Venice (Chief John Reed)

    State Agencies [3 seats]

  • Department of Children and Families-SunCoast Region (Brena Slater)
  • Department of Juvenile Justice (Ginny Donovan)
  • Sarasota County Health Department (Bill Little—Vice-Chair)
  • Human/Community Service Providers [27 seats]

    Aging Services [2 seats]

  • Seniors Advisory Council (Erin McLeod)
  • Senior Friendship Centers (Kathleen Houseweart)
  • Children and Youth Serving Organizations [2 seats]

  • Community Youth Development (Karen Bogues)
  • Family Safety Alliance (Laura McIntyre)
  • Court System [2 seats]

  • Public Defender (Twelfth Judicial Circuit) (Larry Eger)
  • Twelfth Judicial Circuit Court (Alana Monge)
  • Criminal Justice [5 seats]

    • City of North Port (Chief Terry Lewis)
    • City of Sarasota (Captain Paul Sutton)
    • City of Venice (Vacant)
    • Juvenile Justice Council (P. J. Brooks)
    • Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office (Capt. Richard Montemagno)

    Developmental Disabilities [2 seats]

  • Florida Center for Child and Family Development (Kathryn Shea)
  • Loveland Center (Benny Weaver)
  • Education [3 seats]

  • Sarasota Early Learning Coalition (Janet Kahn)
  • School Board of Sarasota County (Caroline Zucker)
  • School Health Advisory Council (Sherri Reynolds—Chair )
  • Health [3 seats]

  • Community Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) (Karen Wilkinson)
  • Healthy Start Coalition of Sarasota County (Vacant)
  • Sarasota Memorial Health Care System (Ken Alexander)
  • Homeless Persons [2 seats]

  • Salvation Army (Bryan Pope)
  • Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness (Richard Martin)
  • Housing [2 seats]

  • Sarasota Housing Authority (Bill Russell)
  • Habitat for Humanity South Sarasota County, Inc. (Judy Wilcox)
  • Mental Health [2 seats]

  • Coastal Behavioral Healthcare (Dr. Jerry Thompson)
  • Mental Health Community Centers (Carolyn Eagen)
  • Substance Abuse [2 seats]

  • First Step of Sarasota (Dave Beesley)
  • Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition (Curtis Lavarello)
  • General Community [19 seats]

    Business/Economic Development [3 seats]

  • Young Professionals Group (Amy Hunt)
  • Sarasota Chamber of Commerce (Steve Queior—Vice-Chair)
  • Suncoast Workforce Board (Leslie Loveless)
  • Client/Consumer Representatives [3 seats]

  • National Alliance for the Mentally Ill--Sarasota Chapter (Dale Lux)
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida (Kameron Partridge)
  • Vocational Interagency Council (Sarah Hickey)
  • Community Planning and Resources [4 seats]

  • Friendship Volunteer Center (James DuPlantier)
  • Individual Citizen (Vacant)
  • Nonprofit Resource Center (Judi Bell)
  • SCOPE (Janice Mee)
  • Community Representatives [6 seats]

  • Manasota 211 (Jessica Ventimiglia)
  • NAACP (Vacant)
  • North County (Vacant)
  • South County Family YMCA (Ken Modzelewski)
  • St. Jude's Hispanic Center (Humberto Alvia)
  • Students Taking Active Roles in Sarasota County [STAR] (Keliy Fordham)
  • Faith-Based Community [3 seats]

  • Diocese of Venice (Mary Koctur)
  • Jewish Federation of Sarasota and Manatee Counties (Rose Chapman)
  • Sarasota United for Responsibility and Equity (SURE) (Tom Pfaff)

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