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7/27/01 For
Immediate Release
Kathryn Johnson has been named the new Executive Director of Alternatives, Inc., a not-for-profit youth development agency in Hampton. Final approval was given by Alternatives. Inc. Board of Directors at its June meeting, said Board President Kathy Monteith. Johnson replaces retiring Executive Director Richard Goll who founded the organization in 1973. Johnson began working for Alternatives in 1991 as a program evaluator and co-director of new program development. She also served as a consultant to the Virginia Institute for Developmental Disabilities and to Wingspan, LLC a Richmond based company that develops curricula for early childhood education. For the past year she was Assistant Director of the agency. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Science-Child Development and Family Relations from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary-Wake Forest. ### Kathryn
Johnson Kathryn Johnson is Executive Director of Alternatives, Inc., a private not-for-profit youth development agency located in Hampton, VA. Ms. Johnson began working for Alternatives in 1991 as a program evaluator and co-director of new program development before taking on the position of Assistant Executive Director in 1999. Ms. Johnson’s work at Alternatives is informed by a prior position as Director of Prevention Services for the Mental Health Services Board in Danville, Virginia. Ms Johnson has published on youth development in the journal New Designs and is a contributor to numerous prevention and intervention education curricula. In addition to her work as Executive Director, Ms. Johnson also serves as a consultant to the Virginia Institute for Developmental Disabilities and to Wingspan, LLC a Richmond based company that develops curricula for early childhood education. Ms. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Science-Child Development and Family Relations from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and a Master of Divinity from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary-Wake Forest. Alternatives, Inc., was founded in 1973, and is nationally recognized for its innovative youth civic engagement programs and its successful approaches to youth development in city schools and neighborhoods. Alternatives school-based substance use prevention programs have been featured in the ABC special, “Drugs, Why this Plague?” as well as in national magazines. Alternatives pioneering school based child abuse prevention program Project Together, and its innovative youth/police community policing partnership were praised in the national investigative magazine Youth Today for their innovative approaches. Alternatives collaborative work with public and private organizations in the community was recently recognized by the Center for Youth Development in Washington as “An Inspiration to the Nation.” Kathryn Johnson’s focus on youth development theory applied to community problem solving has reached a national audience drawing interest from organizations from Oregon to New Jersey. Communities want to know how Alternatives has been successful at not only reducing the youth-related problem behaviors in the cities in which they provide services, but also how they transform the way adults view and interact with young people. |
