Board of Directors & Senior Team

Board of Directors
Buffy Lord, Chair

Whitney Battle Baptiste, Vice Chair

Robert Bogomolny, Treasurer

Eric Lamoureaux, Corporate Clerk

Dr. Deborah Buccino

Linda G. Conway

Shirley Edgerton

Dre Finley

Sheila Heffernon

Mario Kelsey

Christopher King

William Levy

Carolyn Newberger

Carole Siegel

Kenneth Stark

Chair Emeritus
Carl Erickson

Senior Team

Gina Blake, Vice President of Programs

John Cadiz, Senior Director of Human Resources

Sarah Frederick, Senior Director of Advancement

Bryan House, Vice President of Youth Development Programs

Alison Mengel, Vice President of Programs

Stephanie Steed, President and CEO

Ben Wax, Vice President of Finance and Operations

What's New?

A Reflection from a Healing Homes Teammate
My name is Kyle, and I’ve been working with 18 Degrees for just over nine years now in the Healing Homes Comprehensive Foster Care program. We started in Hadley and later made a smooth transition into West Springfield, closer to the families we work with. I came into this field hoping to be a voice [...]
18 DEGREES RECEIVES GRANT FUNDING TO SUPPORT MENTORING PROGRAM
18 Degrees is pleased to have been awarded a second $20,000 grant from the Mass Mentoring Partnership to support youth in the Pittsfield Community Connection Program (PCC). This matching grant is further supported by generous grant funding we received in 2022 from Berkshire United Way. 18 Degrees is honored to partner with our local and state [...]
18 DEGREES ANNOUNCES NEXT PRESIDENT AND CEO
The 18 Degrees Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Stephanie Steed, MEd, will assume the position of President and CEO on January 1, 2023. Steed, a longtime employee of the agency and current Vice President of Programs, assumes the position following the departure of Sarah Cook, who is leaving Western Massachusetts to spend [...]

A Reflection from a Healing Homes Teammate