Board Members - child development, child discipline, children education, children needs, children self-worth, children socialization, coparenting, coparent, coparents, custody, divorce, divorce agreement, marriage therapy, divorce therapy, nonadversarial, parent plan, parent plans, parent conflict, parenting plan, parent skills, renegotiation, separation, single parent, single parents, visitation, collaborative, child academic or psychological difficulties




	Risa J. Garon, LCSW-C, BCD, CFLE Co-Founder and Executive Director National Family Resiliency Center, Inc. Karen Dixon Associate Vice President Corporate Marketing Communications CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield Chairperson, Board of Directors Jody Buffington Aud, APR Principal and Owner The Prio Group Lester Bradshaw President and CEO Bradshaw Construction Co. Lisa Lewis Human Resource Specialist United States Government Anne Madison Vice President, Marketing and Communications The Enterprise Social Investment Corporation Ellen G. Spencer, Esq. Attorney at Law Edgar Wiggins Executive Director Baltimore Crisis Response, Inc. C. E. (Ted) Peck Senior Advisor Retired CEO of Ryland Corp. Risa Garon, LCSW-C, BCD, CFLE, is Executive Director and co-founder of the National Family Resiliency Center, Inc. (NFRC) formerly Children of Separation and Divorce Center, Inc. in Columbia and Rockville, Maryland, a private, non-profit mental health center serving children and families in transition. Ms. Garon works with individuals, couples and families as well as facilitates groups for women and adolescents. She helps parents in transition create child focused parent plans. Ms. Garon has developed a Child and Family Focused Model of Decision Making® model that supports the best interest of the child and is utilized in training judges, lawyers, mediators and mental health professionals around the country. The model is detailed in a book that she co-authored, Guidelines for Child Focused Decision Making Ms. Garon designed a state of the art advanced training seminar for Guardians ad Litem and co-authored the book: Attorneys Representing Children: Guidelines for Interviewing and Assessing Children and Parents Experiencing Separation and Divorce. She has also contributed numerous articles to professional journals and major newspapers and has chaired the statewide Advocacy Board for Children of Divorce. Ms. Garon contributed two chapters of the American Bar Association’s “bench book” for judges. She is a faculty member of The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, which recently selected NFRC as an exemplary program to work with family courts and has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Social Work.