Mrs. Marva Green

Mrs. Marva Green is the Academic Support Coordinator of the Child Resiliency Programme. She is a retired educator and administrator who graduated from UWI and Micos Teacher College and has spent many years teaching in schools. She is one of a team of authors of Carlong Caribbean publishers, involved in the production and publication of several Ministry of Education Textbooks. She served as Senior Administrator at UWI for several years and has been actively involved in UWI’s Mentorship Programme. She is currently an elder at Hope United Church, a member of the Outreach and Care ministry, Hope Area Churches Organization and the Lions Club International in Jamaica. She has recently received a long service award for her service to Boys and Girls Championships as an athletic official. Aunty Marva is known to the programme as one of the calm, quiet pillars of strength. She consistently works to creatively build on the academic skills of the referred behaviorally and academically challenged children.

Mrs. Junie Goulbourne

Mrs. Goulbourne is a trained teacher who completed a BA in Guidance and Counseling and a Masters in Counseling Psychology. She has spent over 20 years working in schools in the capacity of teacher and guidance counselor and since 2002 has been a lecturer in the Guidance and Counseling Division of the Mico University College. Since the inception of the program she has committed herself wholeheartedly to delivering life skills training activities and mentorship for those children referred. She is a member of Hope United Church and is chairperson of the children and youth committee.

Dr. Beverly McKenzie

Dr. McKenzie graduated from Shortwood Teachers’ College with a diploma in teaching. She migrated to the U.S.A. where she obtained a B.A. in Nutrition, a M.Sc. in Guidance and Counseling and a Doctorate in Education. Dr. McKenzie has taught in elementary and High Schools in Jamaica, Day Care Centers and Middle Schools in New York City and was a guidance counselor for 20 years in Middle and High Schools in New York City. She returned to Jamaica in 2005 and currently lectures in Career Development and trains teachers.

She is responsible for counseling the children, parents/families referred to the programme as well as planning and facilitating the parent training workshops. She is the director of the Children and Youth Ministry at Hope United Church.