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The Walden Difference2019-2020 IMPACT REPORT
TABLE OF CONTENTSWho We Are4From our Board Chair and CEO5A Year in Review6Meet Mike, Tiffany, Journey & Parker8Shadow Day in D.C.13A Year in Numbers14A Year in Results18FinancialsOUR VISIONEvery child has a loving family and theability to realize their greatest potentialtoward becoming a self-sufficient andproductive member of their community.20Walden Honored21Donor Recognition22Support Our Work26Wine D’Vine28Walden Leadership29Board of Directors29Locations30
FROM OUR BOARD CHAIR AND CEOFISCAL 2019-20 HAS BEEN A YEAR UNLIKE ANY OTHER.Walden enjoyed many successes and reached important milestones during 2019. We welcomed newboard members; expanded our programs and services throughout Southern California; and celebratedour accomplishments and challenges with loyal and new supporters at Spring Soiree at PamplemousseGrille in May and Wine D’Vine with Train in October.Then March 2020 came, and the world shut down, struggling to adapt during the worst pandemicin a century.WHO WE AREWe are a staff of highly trained social work professionalsFrom the beginning of the pandemic, Walden faced difficult challenges and unexpected costs:emergency supplies for families and youth; laptops for online learning; and increased stipends for THPyouth who lost jobs with the shutdown. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was at a premium. Ourand licensed therapists who support birth, foster, andsocial workers and nurses heroically adapted to the new normal, but because we serve some of theadoptive families and the community at large in caringmost vulnerable, their time and emotional resources were stretched thin.for children and youth—many who have physicalor developmental disabilities, behavioral or mentalhealth challenges, identify as LGBTQ, or are part ofAs we watched the virus rapidly spread, we made the difficult but responsible decision to cancel ourin-person 2020 fundraising events Spring Soiree and Wine D’Vine. While these choices caused financialimpact, the safety of our staff, donors, and extended Walden family were at the forefront of our decision.large sibling groups. Preparing families to care forchildren with special health care needs or disabilitiesallows kids to grow up in loving families, rather than inMay brought with it outrage and horror, driving us from our homes and into the streets to passionatelydeclare that Black Lives Matter. Protests calling for reform and racial justice spread across the countryand onto the global stage. Our shutdown world was woke by the voices of our energized youth.hospitals, skilled-nursing facilities, or group homes andcongregate care facilities. Most importantly, living withAnd while 2020 has been marked by the things that we’ve lost, it has also been marked by the thingsa family helps children and youth build relationshipsthat we’ve gained.that form the foundation for learning, experiencingsocial-emotional well-being, and living successfulfulfilling lives.Many joined us in our call for social justice, knowing Walden’s long history of serving and advocatingfor marginalized people and our tireless work to end systemic racism in the child welfare system. Weadvised our youth how to peacefully and safely protest for equity and exercise their right to free speechto make their important voices heard.Our faithful supporters and friends generously contributed to our Emergency Response Fund andGiving Tuesday Now campaigns. Their outpouring helped us provide uninterrupted essential servicesto our foster community. We are eternally grateful and couldn’t have done it without them.Looking ahead, it’s difficult to predict the challenges we’ll face, but we remain optimistic. To our fosterand adoptive families, community partners, board members, staff, donors, and grant makers: thank youfor your commitment to us during this extraordinary year. Whatever the future holds, we know that we’llsucceed. We are all in it together.Leslie LevinsonTeresa StiversBoard ChairChief Executive OfficerWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI5
A Year in Review6IJuly 2019January 2020More than thirty Walden staff, board members, donors, supporters,and former foster youth participated in San Diego’s annualPride Parade. Since 1999, Walden has marched in the parade, amongthe largest Pride celebrations in the United States. San Diego Prideattracts more than 250,000 people each year.Leslie Levinson is named Walden’s Board of Directors Chair. A loyalsupporter since 2011, Ms. Levinson served on the Governance Boardof Directors from 2012-2017. She was also instrumental in evaluatingand implementing merging the agency’s Governance Board andFoundation Board in 2019.AugustFebruaryIn an in-depth interview, Development and Special Events ManagerMelissa Villagomez shared with the San Diego Union-Tribune herexperiences in the county child welfare system and how a referral to aFoster Family Agency (FAA) like Walden changed her life and inspiredher to help children and youth in foster care.Chief Operating Officer Sue Evans and Directorof Quality Assurance Mary Frame presented“Building Capacity Through Enhancing CulturalHumility” at the Child Welfare Continuum of Carein Sacramento.SeptemberMarchChief Operating Officer Sue Evans named chair of the CaliforniaAlliance for Child and Family Services’ Foster Family AgencyCommittee. The committee determines and monitors the legislativeand regulatory agenda of foster family agencies throughout the stateof California.With California’s shelter-in-place order, Walden quickly established itsEmergency Response Fund to deal with the COVID-19 crisis. As anessential service, Walden continued to meet the needs of its fostercommunity, providing emergency supplies to youth and families,laptops to students, and gap funding for THP youth who had lost jobs.OctoberAprilSan Francisco-based rock band Train performed at Walden’s annualWine D’Vine fundraiser. Terri and Craig Gainor were this year’shonorees. Music lovers Harley and Maryanne Sefton generouslyunderwrote the entertainment and production costs for the event,which raised a record 1,091,000 for our foster youth programs.Walden received a grant from Weingart Foundation to support itswork with children, youth, and families just when the funds wereurgently needed. By month’s end, Walden raised more than 83,000from individual donations to its Emergency Response Fund. Thesecombined funds allowed the agency to continue its essential services.NovemberMayAs National Adoption Month, November raises awareness andincreases outreach about children across the United States who needpermanent families. This year, Walden Family Services facilitatedthirty-one adoptions, providing children and youth with safe, stableforever families.GivingTuesday organizers added Giving Tuesday Now to its calendarin response to the pandemic. On May 5th, Walden participated,raising more than 22,500 in a single day. These funds allowed socialworkers to devote the additional time needed to ensure the physicaland mental well-being of our foster community.DecemberJuneWalden was approved to serve more Los Angeles youth in itsTransitional Housing Placement Program for Non-Minor Dependents.Starting July 1, 2020, the agency is licensed to serve up to 150 youth, a50% increase from the previous year. We were also greenlit to launcha THP Plus program in Los Angeles, helping fifteen youth aged 21–24.California’s fiscal year 2020-21 state budget included wins forchild welfare. Among them were establishing a THP-NMD HousingSupplement that provides additional funds for high-rent counties, andand enrollment extensions for youth who would otherwise age outbefore June 30, 2021 and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.Walden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI7
Meet Mike, Tiffany, Journey & ParkerIn the summer of 2019, Mike and Tiffany awaited a final piece of documentation to be certifiedWalden Family Services foster and adoptive parents. Eager to start their family, they were ontrack to foster two brothers whose placement wasn’t a good fit. They were told that the processof getting the boys would take about a month.“We had everything ready,” Tiffany explained. “I was so ready to ‘mom’ somebody.”During the home study portion of the process, Mike and Tiffany wanted to do everything bythe book. Whether it was making changes to their home to accommodate children or puttingtogether a disaster kit, the couple agreed that Walden was always there to answer their questionsand made them feel comfortable in the process.“They never made us feel like it was an inconvenience to talk to us or to help us out,” Mike said.Former Walden social worker, Michaela Recker, who started working with the couple in May2019 and still keeps in touch since moving to Washington state, describes them as active, gowith-the-flow, and patient—a “perfect fit” for two little boys.“They had so much love that they wanted to give.”On July 22, 2019, Mike and Tiffany received theircertification. As they drove down the street afterthe news, they prayed for a sign about the twobrothers they were waiting to foster.“A lot of this whole process has been spirit led,”No matter howyou become aparent, all kidsjust need love.Mike said.Within five minutes of making their prayer the phone rang: it was Walden. There was definitelynews on two little boys—just not the ones they’d been on track to foster. They were told thatthere were two brothers that needed an emergency placement. They could meet the childrenthe next day, if they were interested.Five-year-old Journey and three-year-old Parker had experienced severe trauma in theiryoung lives. They had entered child welfare system in 2017. In just those eighteen months theyexperienced six different placements, including with family members who lived out of state.8IWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI9
Tiffany agreed. “It’s day and night what love and care for a child can do.”The couple have been mindful of the boys’ history from the beginning. After two worrisomeincidents with Journey, Tiffany realized that they would need to ‘build him back up from theground up.’ That’s when she created a list of “I am” statements as part of a morning ritual toimprove Journey and Parker’s self-esteem. After they’ve finished getting ready in the morning,Adoption in the time of COVIDthey each read a list in front of the bathroom mirror: I am handsome, I am smart, I am fly, I amkind, I’m a child of God, I am powerful, and I am blessed.Above Parker, Mike, Tiffany, and Journey duringthe boys’ adoption hearing on July 17, 2020;“That has done wonders for their confidence,” Mike said.upper right Aunt Frannie; lower right JudgeTheodore Weathers.While the boys have made great strides, the couple understands that healing is a process.“There are definitely moments that this has been ridiculously challenging,” Tiffany admits. “Ittakes a special calling to do something like this, because it’s not for everybody. I always knew I“You could tell they had a history,” Tiffany said. “Journey was the protector and he wasn’t goingwas supposed to be a mom, I just didn’t know it would be this way.”to trust you. He could be cool with you and cordial, but it was like you weren’t getting past thewall. He was like an old soul from the jump. Parker—he was there for the party.”The couple decided to consider foster-to-adopt after they suffered two miscarriages. Mike hadbeen open to adoption from the beginning but hadn’t pushed for it. Coming to this decisionThe couple scheduled an hour-long visit with the boys that turned into two hours. The very nexttook a little longer for Tiffany.day they became Journey and Parker’s foster parents; however, when Mike and Tiffany came topick up the boys to take them home, they found Journey in tears.“To be honest, I didn’t think it was for me, butI told Mike that I would give it a try. My heart“He was afraid to leave and wasn’t feeling secure at all. I thought, if he only knew what westarted changing with every Walden meetingwanted to do for him. We just wanted to make it better, but he had some serious trust issues.”that we went to. It took me getting over myself,Tiffany said. “It’s taken a lot of work and a lot of time.”which is what it takes to be a parent regardlessof how you become a parent,” Tiffany said.The couple count themselves fortunate that they’d both been able to take four weeks of family“Now it feels like we have always had theseleave when the boys moved in. Still, the transition wasn’t easy. Journey in particular had a hardboys in our lives.”be ready to makea difference,because they’rerelying on you.time believing and trusting in their love. One of the biggest challenges they’d faced was theunexpected anger that Journey felt toward Tiffany. He would only listen to Mike.Mike admits that living in the moment, theydon’t always notice the progress the boys have made. “It’s more the things we hear from friends“I have the same name as their birth mother,” Tiffany explained. “There was a lot of trauma thatand family. To me, though, the biggest milestone was the Christmas travel.”came with hearing that name.”The couple agrees one of the biggest breakthroughs the boys made—and they made as aShe credits their Walden social worker for helping to change their dynamic, giving her exercisesfamily—was going out of town to visit their families for the Christmas holidays. It was going toto do to build their connection. “Michaela helped get our relationship where it was supposed tobe a big trip: going first to visit family and friends in Indiana and then on to see Tiffany’s parentsbe. She was that reassuring voice saying that everything was going to be okay.”and her brother and his family who had moved to North Carolina. There would be changes to theboy’s schedule, as well as staying in unfamiliar locations and meeting new people.Tiffany also believes that Mike setting an example of how to treat a woman has helped bothboys. “They just didn’t know.”Their biggest concern was how Journey and Parker would react to getting on a plane. Their lastflight was when they were removed from their sixth placement. The couple worried that the“We came a long way as a family in that first month,” Mike said.10IWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact Reportboys might think that their new foster parents were getting rid of them.Walden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI11
EMPOWERMENTAfter Journey expressed that heThe couple credits at least part of their success becoming an “instant family” to having a strongsupport network made up of extended family and friends.didn’t want his birth name anymore,the couple asked both boys if they“Make sure you have a good support system—your support system is everything. Be ready to relywanted to change their names. Theon other people because without our support system we wouldn’t have made it through.” Mikekids were onboard.said. “To be honest, if it wasn’t for everything that Walden did to help us, especially everythingthat Michaela did—they got us through the first few months to get us into the flow of things.”For Parker, the choice was easy.Being a huge Spiderman fan, hewanted to honor his hero, PeterParker. For Journey, the choiceToday, Mike and Tiffany look back and not only see how far the boys have come, but how muchthey have come as individuals.took longer. He considered his ownsuperhero name but nothing stuck.“I learned that I had reserves of patience that I didn’t know were there,” Mike said. “There aretimes that they’re going to say or do something that hurts, but if you take a step back and thinkOne day, he asked Tiffany why sheabout what they’ve gone through, you realize that it probably isn’t even meant for you.”and Mike didn’t have any children oftheir own. She explained to him thatshe had miscarried. He followed upTiffany concurred. “Be ready to be tested beyond anything you thought you could possibly do.”with asking her what the name ofthe babies in her belly were. TiffanyStill, the couple recognize the blessings far outweigh the challenges. Among the many thingstold him: Journey.they love about being adoptive parents is watching the boys’ progress—seeing the positivehabits and relationships they’ve developed and being able to have such open and honest“I want be your Journey,” he said.And now indeed he is.conversations with them. Mostly they love giving them a chance at a new life.“They didn’t deserve what happened in their past,” Tiffany said. “They are beautiful babies.”Luckily, the flight went off without incident.SHADOW DAY IN D.C.Mike and Tiffany tried to cause a minimal amount of disruption while they were away, keepingIn September, former foster youth, Tasha Matthewsthe number of new people the boys were introduced to intentionally small and asking family andand Melissa Villagomez travelled to Washington, DC asfriends to visit them where they were staying rather than taking the kids to a new place.delegates for National Foster Youth Institute’s ShadowDay. Hosted by the Congressional Caucus on FosterYouth, Shadow Day is an opportunity for young people to“We did—and still do—what’s in their best interest.” Tiffany said.spend time with representatives, learn about the legislativeprocess, and develop skills that will help them advocateMike agreed. “We know what works for our kids.”on behalf of their peers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi andThe trip was a huge success. There were plenty of kids to play with and the boys got to see snowrepresentatives Karen Bass, Hakeem Jeffries, and Alexandriafor the very first time. Both brothers loved the sense of belonging to a family.Ocasio-Cortez were among those who attended the event.“Journey has asked me multiple times if we can move to Indiana or North Carolina where theJust months before, Tasha and Melissa accompanied Walden’s Chief Operating Officer Suefamily is,” Tiffany said. “Or he’ll say, ‘can we go to Indiana for sixteen sleeps next time?”Evans to Sacramento to address the budget subcommittee in the California State Legislaturein support of a wage increase for FFA social workers. Walden encourages its current and12I“Once, Journey asked if we could go for a hundred-and-some sleeps,” Mike laughs, “and I saidformer foster youth to share their lived experience to advocate for themselves and others in the‘bud, that’s called moving.’”child welfare space.Walden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI13
A Year in Numbers1,460children, youth, and families50,471square milesKEY FACT: As a licensed FFA, Walden’s service area encompasses a 2-hour drive radius from itsdistrict offices in Riverside, San Diego, and Los Angeles, evidence of the lengths oursocial workers are willing to go for our children and youth.14IWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI15
A Year in NumbersKEY STATSBY RACEBY ETHNICITY54 29 32110E39 57 4EFFAnnnnnnn54% WHITE*29% BLACK3% BI-RACIAL2% ASIAN.5% NATIVE AMERICAN.5% PACIFIC ISLANDER11% UNKNOWNFFABY GENDER6050nnnn39% HISPANIC57% NON HISPANIC4% UNKNOWNn4042% FEMALE37958% MALE18-21 year oldyouth served in ourTHPP for NMDProgram3020100FFA45 33 2116ETHPPFOR NMDn45% WHITE*n33% BLACKn2% BI-RACIALnnnn1% ASIAN3% NATIVE AMERICAN.26% PACIFIC ISLANDER16% UNKNOWN47 47 6ETHPPFOR NMD87%8070n60nnn47% HISPANIC5047% NON HISPANIC406% UNKNOWN3063% FEMALEn36% MALEn.26% TRANSGENDER FEMALEnn.26% TRANSGENDER MALE.53% FLUID72010018-24 year oldyouth enrolled inTHP PlusTHPP FOR NMD43 43 14ETHP YOUTHnnn43% WHITE*43% BLACK14% UNKNOWN*includes Latinx population16IWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact Report43 57 ETHP YOUTHyoung adults inthe THPP for NMDprogram withlifelong connections10080nn43% HISPANIC57% NON HISPANICnn604086% FEMALE14% MALE86%young adults mademeasurable progressin aftercare/extended care200THP YOUTH
100%A Year in ResultsWALDEN VS. STATEpercentage ofchildren whotransferred two orfewer times duringthe year% of THPP for NMD Youth in Higher Education in Fiscal %201.5151.0100.5525500.04-YEAR I FULL-TIME / PART-TIME2-YEAR I FULL-TIME / PART-TIME% of THPP for NMD Youth Employed in Fiscal er children andyouth placed KEY STATS:18I104PART-TIME96%1593169%85 young parents thatshowed improvedempathy, breakingthe cycle of abuseFFA fosterfamiliesfostercare-toadoptionsachievedof mentalhealth servicesrecipients showedimprovementof every dollarspent directly on aWalden programWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact Reportpregnant orparenting youthin our NurturingParenting ProgramWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI19
Financials 2019-202090 10 E85 15 EREVENUE: 17,870,526 1.8MILLIONn90% GOVERNMENT CONTRACTSn10% EVENTS, GRANTS, AND DONATIONSfrom events, grants,& donorsForever family: Bob, Eric, and Aaron on adoption day.WALDEN HONORED BY HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNEXPENSES: 16,969,54785%For the second consecutive year, Walden earned the Innovator seal from the Human RightsCampaign’s All Children–All Families project. This top-tier designation is reserved for agenciesthat implement innovative approaches to LGBTQ inclusion and demonstrate leadership innn85% PROGRAMS AND SERVICES15% ADMINISTRATION AND FUNDRAISINGgoes directly toprograms andservices85 of every dollar goes directly toWalden’s programs benefitting ourchildren, youth, and families.policy advocacy or organizational partnerships. Recipients are recognized for adopting aframework that promotes cultural competency through self-assessment, comprehensive staffand leadership training, and policies and practices that affirm LBGTQ equal rights.Walden educates all of our constituencies about the needs of LGBTQ foster children and youth.Our foster families receive cultural competency training, and we regularly conduct awarenessand outreach programs for county social service agencies and private foster care providersthroughout the nation.Walden’s roots in the LGBTQ community run deep, as seen in ouragency’s history. We have been champions at the state level—85 advocating for transgender youth in care to have medical accessto surgery and hormone treatments, as well as lobbying to ban theuse of conversion therapy on youth in the foster care system.We are steadfastly committed to serving both children andprospective parents in the LGBTQ community and are proud to belongstanding members of the All Children-All Families project.These are unaudited financials for 2019-2020. For a final audited version, please visit us at waldenfamily.org.20IWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI21
Donor Recognition 500,000 Maryanne & Harley Sefton 150,000 Weingart Foundation 50,000 The San Diego Foundation 25,000 Annenberg FoundationMary Alice & Ron BradyEast West BankHervey Family Fund at The San Diego FoundationNettie & Tom KeckSan Manuel Band of Mission IndiansSDGE – A Sempra Energy Utility 20,000 Terri & Craig Gainor / The Linda & Jerry Strickland FoundationUnited Way of the Inland ValleysWalter J. & Betty C. Zable Foundation 15,000 AnonymousDeidre Buddin & Jose FernandezAndréa da Rosa & Deborah LlewellynLaura & Robert DugganSt. Germaine Children’s Charity22IWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportTHANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS! 10,000 Lisa & Raul AlbanezKathie & Peter DavisDowling & Yahnke, LLCAllison Gelbrich DowningMartha & Tommy HousharIto Girard & AssociatesPamela & Charles PendrellRest Haven Children’s Health FundEmily & Ted ShultsDesiree & Evan SwansonThe Country FriendsTina & David ThomasTrilion Capital 7,500 Michelle & Art CandlandCathy & Chris CarrollBreanna & Ted GoochGr’mere’s I’mpossible Journey Fundat The San Diego FoundationJames GrossLeslie & Jim LevinsonBarbie & Dan Spinazzola 5,000 Anthony BollottaDatron World CommunicationsLucy & Michael deAndaCheryl DossHilary & Hal DunningPeggy & Robert EddyChris & Keith EshelmanDeborah Reynold Frank & James FrankDonna & John GallowayLaurie Sefton HensonHunter Industries, Inc.John P. Previti FoundationAnnette & Art JohnsonJennifer & Jim KellyArlene LiebermanProcopioMartha & Mark SottosantiTorrey Pines Landscape Co., Inc.Walden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI23
Veritas TechnologiesWells Fargo Foundation 2,500 100 Women Who CareAmerican West Worldwide Express, Inc.Sepi & Peter ArrowsmithBBVA / Roger ZucchetLisa Betyar & Karl WalterDale & Austin BirchMelissa & Quentin BlackfordAngela & Charles BocageCafe MotoBlair & Kelsey CannonRobin Wilson Carrier & Gordon CarrierJennifer & John CrisafulliMarly & Jose da RosaHannah & Ricardo da RosaRenata & Daniel da RosaDavid C. Copley FoundationLinda & Rick DickerLisette & Mick FarrellFirst American Trust - Wealth ManagementFirst Choice Executive SuitesGay & Lesbian Fund for San Diego atThe San Diego FoundationKristin & Benj GershmanJoyce GlazerGrowth Development Marketing, Inc.Vahe GuzelimianJackie HelmCarol & Henry Hunte FundJPMorgan Chase & Co.Kelly & Mark KjosMarsh & McLennan AgencyKristi & Tom MartindaleAra & Gines D. MirallesEdie MosesCaroline & Nico NierenbergPatriot General Engineering Inc.Bonnie & Bill Peartree24IWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportSusie & Ed PiegzaChristine & Frederick PiercePride Resource Partners LLCAngela & Dave RhodesSheryl & John ScaranoSD Men on a MissionJennifer & Justin SeifertKristen & Steven SheaBarbara & John SheridanKaren & Michael StoneLise Wilson & Steve StraussJill Skrezyna & Alex Sun 1,000 A.M. Ortega Construction, Inc.Kim & Marco AlessioCarolyn & Paul BarberSusan & Hugo BarreraKris & Jim BenhamLisa BosstickAnnette & Daniel BradburyJulie & Tim BubnackMichael CarlinBetsy & Kurt CilcottAnne & Eric ChodorowElizabeth & Michael CopleyGigi CramerClaire DavisRobin Diamond Williams & Kent WilliamsNina & Robert DoedeVicki & Chris EddyBertha EdingtonSusan Christopher & Norman EmbletonCherie & Curtis EngeJudy & Lou FerreroAlison & Eric FigiLin & Mark FolettaJohn FritzenkotterJulie & Bryan GarrieAhmed GhouriConnie & Dick GoodLinda & Jeffrey GorwitGretchen & James HerrGina & Robert HixsonHolly & Emmet HoldenHUB InternationalJP Gunite, Inc.Shannon & Bradley KatesJanice & Matt KurthSue & Bob LakosilRisa & James LauthCecilia LeeRuth & Charles LevinsonAmber Lopez GambleLawrence Wood & Rodney LoveDiane & Curtis LoveMarvin K. Brown Auto CenterCari & Bassam MassaadColleen McNallyLydia & John McNeilElizabeth & Sam MelehaniShari MillerMulloy’s Fine Jewelry, Inc.Kathryn & Mark MunozDenise Jackson & Al PachecoBonnie & Tom PancheriRhonda PetersMike PlatzerSahara Scoffold, Inc.Mary Rose & Ben SchwartzSuzanne & Alex SettePam & Chris SmithRita SzczotkaTanya & Noah TafollaJanine TaylorThe Cappetta Family Foundation, IncThe Gifting ClosetThe Unitarian Universalist Fellowshipof San DieguitoKaren TomLori & Mike TullerMarie TuthillUnited Way of San Diego CountySylvia & Tom VecchioneTasha & Erik WahlDavid WeinerKaty & Daniel WilsonCynthia & Tim WollaegerJulie & Dale Yahnke 500 Shannon & Dave AppelKelli & Anthony BalistreriRonald BallFredelyn BenavidezMichelle BissiSherrie & Brad BlackKathy & Dirk BroekemaJeffrey CavignacBeth & Graham DavenportJason & Damon DeanerBernadette & Joe DelaneyJenny & Mark DowlingTed EbelJune FabianiAmy & Steve FritzenkotterDermot GilliganLiora & Orin GreenBen HaddadMargaret HarveySarah Wiley & Steven HenriksenRene’ & Travis HittHome Chef LLCSusan & Mark HoveySara & John JarvisSue & Lyle KalishShayna & Eric KaufmannKristine & Dave LachTina LaiRachel LaMarJennifer LandaJeanne & Bill LarsonMichael LischinWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI25
Rebecca & David LlewellynM.A. Steiner Construction, Inc.Linda & John MaguireJulie & Joe MatibagPatricia & William Moises 500 Support Our WorkSINGLE GIFT*Make a single, life-changing gift today.RECURRING GIFTBy giving monthly, you help provide stable and ongoing support to importantprograms and resources for our foster children, youth, and families.PLANNED GIVINGMark MontgomeryNV5 Inc.Joan & Ken O’HaverRussell OkiharaOsceola Consulting LLCMichelle ParkerKimberly & Leo RubidouxAmy & Matt SchlegalSeacoast Commerce BankMaxine & Bill ShearerSteven SiegelSouthland Electric, Inc.Priscella SrbuBob StefankoKathryn & John StephensTom TarrGamin ThomasonKathryn & Don VaughnJoseph VettelAndrea Naversen & Dwight WaitWearable Imaging, IncDon WellsKaren WilliamsMichelle & Joe WisemanCreate an enduring impact by including Walden in your estate plans. Making a plannedgift is a meaningful way to contribute to the organization’s future while providing 250 financial and tax benefits for you and your family.Micki Olin & Reid AbramsCorrine BarrosoJanine BartonJohn BeelerKristy Myers-Bell & Jon BellEstel & Walter BinderAndrea B. BokoskyDonna & Tim BrickleySusan & Chris BurrTheresa CarterSTOCK GIVINGGifts of stock can provide tax advantages for you while yielding profound benefits forthe communities we serve.*If you would like to donate by check, please mail to: Walden Family Services, P.O. Box 741667, Los Angeles, CA 90074-166726IWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportKathryn M. CorcoranMegan CoxBetty & Mike DunnTania FabianiDanielle FoustFabienne & Terry HanksHDR, IncLisa & Carl HulleMagdalena & Joseph JonesBasia & Gordon KellyNaveen KrishnanLindsie LevinsonMia LloydPeter MacCrackenDeanne & Chris MartinelliMark MasonElaine & Tom MurphyMia & Justin ParksPHCC of CaliforniaLori & Kenneth PolinAbby PruittWendy & Ken RoosAmy RowlandSofia & Ted SamourisPhilipp SchumacherJan SerafinRaymond SimasCheryl & Jeff SmithRosemarie SpencerKathy ValyoWallace P. Johnson Plumbingand Heating, Inc.Ane ZermenoWalden Family Services 2019–20 Impact ReportI27
WALDEN LEADERSHIPTeresa StiversSue EvansChief Executive OfficerChief Operations OfficerSue GarciaMary FrameChief Financial OfficerDirector of Quality AssuranceBOARD OF DIRECTORSEXECUTIVE COMMITTEELeslie Levinson, ChairJackie HelmT
in response to the pandemic. On May 5th, Walden participated, raising more than 22,500 in a single day. These funds allowed social workers to devote the additional time needed to ensure the physical and mental well-being of our foster community. March With California's shelter-in-place order, Walden quickly established its
