LifeSTEPS - Leadership

Leadership

Empowerment. Impact. Community.
One STEP at a Time.

Craig Gillett, JD, MFT LifeSTEPS Founder & Board President Craig is an attorney, educator and licensed Marriage and Family Therapist living in Los Angeles. He has been involved with non-profit agencies since 1992, with a focus on homelessness, affordable housing for seniors and families, and mental health issues. At Antioch University Los Angeles, Craig was a core faculty member and the Director of Clinical Training in the Master’s Degree Program in Clinical Psychology from 1997 through 2001. He has maintained a small private psychotherapy practice in Los Angeles for over eighteen years. It was Craig’s belief that supportive services which include a strong case management and mental health component are crucial to the success of affordable housing that empowered him to co-found LifeSTEPS. LifeSTEPS currently provides social services to seniors and families at over 162 properties in the state of California.		Board Of Directors Craig Gillett, JD, MFT LifeSTEPS Founder Board President Kenneth S. Robertson LifeSTEPS Founder Vice-President, Secretary Barbara Valiente, CPA Treasurer Dr. Lili Y. Kim, Clinical Psychologist Gregory J. Popovich, Business Owner
Beth Southorn, MACP Executive Director Beth has been working in the Social Service field since 1991. She has had experience with the mental health population, the aging, the homeless, the incarcerated, individuals in drug and alcohol recovery, domestic violence, and welfare recipients. Her experience in diversity, leadership, and program development has allowed her to form national models of success with vocational rehabilitation and affordable housing service programs. Beth earned her Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Notre Dame de Namur, and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from San Francisco State University. Beth continues to enhance and improve the successful model of resident empowerment she created and implemented for various affordable housing communities throughout Northern California. Beth joined LifeSTEPS in 2002 as a Regional Director of Social Services leading Northern California. Beth has spearheaded the agency’s efforts in creating a successful model for delivering social services to affordable apartment communities.
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