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For twenty years, Crossway Community, Inc.
has integrated three learning centers on its campus to serve
economically disadvantaged families and others in Montgomery County. The Family Leadership School
features 40 residential units , career counseling, life-skill coaching,
and educational support to 40 single mothers with very young children. The Lifelong Learning Center provides
an array of educational, arts, recreational and life skill classes,
events and services to individuals and families throughout the
region. The Crossway Montessori Program provides effective early educational intervention to children 3 months to 6 years of age.
Since
its founding in 1990, Crossway Community, Inc. has served over 600
families who have participated in its residential program and over
20,000 who have benefited from its educational and referral services.
At the center of all Crossway Community, Inc. programs is the research
and experienced-based belief that education is the key to success.
Every family, regardless of income or other factors, deserves a
dignified, safe community and the opportunity to succeed.
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Kathleen Guinan, CEO
Over the past
twenty years, Ms. Guinan has helped Crossway Community, Inc. serve as a
catalyst for individual and social change for women, children and
families.
Ms.
Guinan has more than twenty-five years of experience in family
education program development, and non-profit management. She has an
extensive background in initiating and managing programs serving
families and seniors across socioeconomic lines including Rachel’s
Women’s Center, Bread for the City, formerly Zacchaeus Clinic and
Zacchaeus Community Kitchen. She has served as
President of the Wheaton Neighborhood Collaborative, a partnership of
local schools, Montgomery County government, civic groups, residents,
the local police department, religious organizations, businesses and
non-profit organizations. She has chaired the Housing and Education
Subcommittee of the Wheaton Redevelopment effort and serves as co-chair
of the Wheaton/Kensington Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Guinan also serves
on the District of Columbia Human Trafficking Task Force and she has
forged partnerships with international development organizations such
as Vital Voices and Shared Hope International.
Ms.
Guinan was awarded the Metropolitan Life Enterprise Foundation “Best
Practice Award,” as well as the 2005 “Bridge Builders Award” from
Partners for Livable Communities. In November 2009, she was selected by WETA as a Hometown
Hero for her lifelong focus on creating organizations that endorse
positive change for economically disadvantaged people in the greater
Washington area over the past twenty years.
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Ann Byrne
Ms.
Byrne currently serves as Head of School for Crossway Montessori Program. She has more than thirty-five years experience in designing
and implementing family-focused programs for families with young
children and more than fifteen years with Crossway Community, Inc. In
addition to being a Montessori teacher, Ms. Byrne has served as a
consultant specializing in early childhood education. She holds a
M.Ed. in Human Development/Early Childhood Education from the
University of Maryland Institute for Child Study and an AMI
International Montessori Teaching Certificate. Ms. Byrne is the past
President of the Maryland Association for the Education of Young
Children (MDAEYC), state affiliate of NAEYC, and co-chair of the
Montgomery County Early Childhood Task Force.
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Florence Walker Kamm, PhD
Florence
Walker Kamm, PhD has contributed to the development of The Family
Leadership School (FLS) at Crossway Community since its inception in
1990. Her clinical expertise has guided the FLS staff as well as the
teaching staff of the Crossway Montessori School.
Dr.
Kamm graduated from Mt. Sinai Hospital
School of Nursing in New York City and served as a cadet nurse in the
Public Health Service during World War II. She continued her education
and received a Master of Arts degree in 1976 from Goddard College. She
received her doctoral degree from Union Institute and University in
1984 with a specialty in Family Systems Theory and Family
Psychotherapy. She joined the faculty at Georgetown University Family
Center in 1980, teaching Bowen Theory in the post graduate program
until 1985.
Dr.
Kamm developed a research tool, the Family Evaluation Summary, which
tracks the progress of all students in the Crossway Community Family
Leadership School.
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