NACCFA Board of Directors

	Class of 2004
Harl Hargett	Executive Director, Lost and Found, Inc., Wheat Ridge, Colorado
	Lost and Found, Inc. 6700 W. 44th Ave. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033 [email protected]	303.420.8080

Roy Martinez	Hope Youth Ranch 114 Hope Ranch Rd Minden, LA 71055 [email protected]	318.371.0047

Vacant

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	Class of 2005
Frank Block	Love Basket, Inc. 10306 Highway 21 Hillsboro, MO 63050 [email protected]	636.797.4100

John Weaver	Whitefish, MT 59937 [email protected]	406.862.7510

Carol Whitworth	Executive Director, Sunshine Acres Children’s Home, Mesa, Arizona. Carol serves as Treasurer of NACCFA, and is the daughter of Reverend James and Vera Dingman, who founded Sunshine Acres Children's Home in 1954. She started her work with Sunshine Acres in 1960 as a houseparent with her husband, Jack, and then became Sunshine Acre's Executive Director 20 years later in 1980. Carol brings a wealth of knowledge to the board in her understanding of the care needed by kids. Her endurance in her pursuit providing God's best for all those in her care is reflected in her smile, her program, and her love for all those around her. She is a recipient of the Outstanding Professional, Mesa Community Gila Butte Award, which she received in 1985.
	Sunshine Acres Children’s Home 3405 North Higley Rd. Mesa, AZ 85215 [email protected]	480.832.2540

Jean Caceres-Gonzales	His House Children’s Home 20000 N.W. 47th Ave., Bldg. 22 Opa-Locka, FL 33055 [email protected]	305.430.0085

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	Class of 2006
Kay Ekstrom	Founding President and CEO, Christian Family Care Agency, Phoenix, Arizona. Kay began her career in child welfare as a foster parent for babies, birthmothers, primary age children and teens. Early on, Kay became an advocate not only for the children in her immediate care, but for several children caught in the foster care system. Kay served in several capacities where lobbying was her primary responsibility and she was the author and lobbyist for many child welfare laws in Arizona. Kay served as the Chair for the Western Region of the Child Welfare League of America and is one of the founding members of NACCFA. She has served on many local and national advisory committees. She and her husband, Chuck, have seven children and eight grandchildren.
	Christian Family Care Agency 3603 North 7th Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85013 [email protected]	602.234.1935

Ken Withrow	Executive Director, Evangelical Child and Family Agency, Wheaton, Illinois. Ken began working in the field of human services in 1971 when he served as a house director and staff supervisor in to residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children in the Chicago area. In 1976 Ken became a caseworker at the Evangelical Child and Family Agency. Over the years, he has worked in the areas of adoption, foster care, individual and family counseling, and alcohol and drug abuse treatment. Ken's educational and professional background includes a Master's Degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers. He is also a State of Illinois Certified Addictions Counselor. He became the Executive Director of ECFA in 1991. Ken and his wife, Claire, have two daughters, Beth and Stephanie, and his family attends Lombard Gospel Chapel in Lonbard, Illinois
	Evangelical Child and Family Agcy 1530 North Main St. Wheaton, IL 60187 [email protected]

Gary Behler	Bethel Bible Village 3001 Hamill Rd. Hixson, TN 37343 [email protected]	423.842.5757 ext. 235

Nancy Hungerford	Nancy Park Hungerford is the Executive Director of the Natchez Children's Home in Natchez, Mississippi. The Home was founded in 1816 by a group of Christian women responding to the many children left orphaned in the territory by Indian wars and a yellow fever epidemic. Today’s residents are victims of poverty, divorce, substance abuse and emotional and physical neglect but the mission of “Saving Lives, One Child at a Time” has continued for almost two centuries. Nancy has served in almost every capacity in residential child care since the late l970’s and currently sits on the board of the Mississippi Association of Child Care Agencies, the Mississippi Center for Nonprofits, and numerous local, civic and church groups. She is the mother of three grown children.
	Natchez Children’s Home 806 North Union St. Natchez, MS 39120 [email protected]	601.442.6858

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	Executive Director
Steve Yahnig	NACCFA P.O. Box 307 Gridley, IL 61744 [email protected]	309.747.4517 cell: 815.579.8905