OUR Background

We are a team of professionals and volunteers consisting of doctors, teachers, counsellors, pastors, coaches, cultural arts facilitators dietary and fitness consultants, clinical psychologists and adolescent advisers. All members of the team are Christians who believe that any child or adult’s success includes caring for the mind, body and soul.

Involvement in afterschool sporting, academic, spiritual, social, mentoring and parent training activities have been shown to be an effective strategy for the prevention of several adolescent risk behaviours and promotion of external and internal resiliency factors.

The Child Resiliency Programme is based on the growing evidence of both external and internal factors that protect adolescents from engaging in early unprotected sex, violence, drug use or other health risk behaviour.

Boys Town Team
Falmouth All Age Team
KYMCA TEAM
Sam Sharpe Teachers College Team

*Active 2017-2020                  *Active 2012-2020

OUR CORE TEAM

We are a team of professionals and volunteers consisting of doctors, teachers, counselors, pastors, dietary and fitness consultants, clinical psychologists and adolescent advisers. All members of the team are Christians who believe that any child or adult’s success includes caring for the mind, body and soul.

Dr. Kim Scott

Founder and Programme Director

Dr Scott is a Resiliency and Wellness Consultant who completed her Bachelor’s in Human Biology and
Psychology at the University of Toronto, Canada and her Medical degree at the University of the West
Indies, Jamaica. After working in medical private practice and government clinics she went on to do her
master’s in Public Health where she focused on behavioral and emotional health. She has worked in the
field of health and development for over 2 decades including conducting resiliency research and the
writing and delivery of parent training and resiliency-based training curriculums. She is a member of the
Medical Association of Jamaica, International Association of Adolescent Health and Society for
Adolescent Health and Medicine. She conceptualized and developed the Child Resiliency Program in
January 2006 out of a special love for disadvantaged children and preadolescents and their positive
development.

Dr. Michelle Miller

Programme Operations Executive

‘A life’s work of service’. This is how Dr. Michelle Miller describes not just her career path – she started in the Hospitality Industry and transitioned to the field of Training and Education for the past, but her life in general. Dr Miller is a graduate of the University of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Business; and both an MBA, and Doctorate from Nova Southeastern University, USA where she majored in Special Education. She uses her years of experience, management and administrative skills, as well as her heart and passion for children and people in need to fulfill her responsibility for Programme Operations with the Child Resiliency Programme. As a natural “thinker” and “developer”, Dr Miller is always seeking to help others develop to their full potential. Her greatest service however, is being wife to Eddie and mother to Adam and Rachel.

Sheena Hurley-Copeland

Aunty Sheena is the Coordinator and Practicum Supervisor for the Child Resiliency Programme at Boys Town. She also serves here in the capacity as Parenting/Family Support Facilitator. She is currently a practicing guidance counsellor at a primary school in Western Kingston. She has a teaching diploma and a Bsc. in Guidance and Counselling from the Mico University college and is now pursuing a Masters degree in Educational administration at the University of the West Indies. She is the coordinator for the mother’s union parenting programme in KSA under the Anglican diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Aunty Sheena brings her energy and enthusiasm to the programme as she works to bring about behavioural change in both children and parents in difficult circumstances.

Judith Taylor

Programme Administrator/Monitoring and Evaluation

Aunty Judy is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology, Literature & Sociology; and post graduate diplomas in Public Relations and Human Resource Management. She has over 20 years’ working experience in these areas and as an Administrator at companies such as National Commercial Bank, Business Management Ltd., Ministry of Health, the United Nations and the Caribbean Examinations Council. She also holds a Certificate of Achievement in Evaluation Measurement and Survey Administration. 

Aunty Judy has worked in market research and monitoring and evaluation for 4 years. Her greatest vocation is parenting her sons, Phillip and Joshua. She considers herself blessed to experience ‘the promise’ in these children bloom and reflect hope for Jamaica’s future…priceless!

Delano Campbell

Uncle Delano, youth leader and community activist . He has been at Boys Town since birth, came through the system of Boys Town basic school onto Boys Town Primary then moved to Calabar High school, after GSAT exams ( there was no Boys Town High). Since graduating from Calabar High, he returned and has served in several different capacities at Boys Town: PRO for the Football Club , Chairman of the youth council , Member on the school board, President of the youth club coach at all levels: U13, U15, U17 and U20, a facilitator in the 15- 18 youth school program sponsored by the Canadian High Commission and JFLL. He is currently serving as the Co-Coordinator of The Child Resiliency Programme at Boys Town.

Kidan McCoy

Uncle Kidan is one of the Assistant Coordinator at the Boys Town Centre where he is instrumental in home visits to the children and their parents. Sergeant Kidan McCoy is currently attached to the Kingston Western Division Operational Support Unit of the Jamaica Defense Force (JDF); and holds an Associate Degree in Computer Application & Business Studies (CABS) from the Portmore Community College.

He is passionate about reforming youth at risk and as such, has played active roles in the renovation of and donations to infant and primary schools in the Boys Town area.

Paul G.J. Messam (2014-2020)

Coordinator of the Child Resiliency Programme at Red Hills Primary.
Uncle Paul is a trained Teacher, Counsellor, Sunday School Supt, and Motivational speaker, whose aim is to transform lives in a positive way to reach their full potential. This is done through himself having good values and attitude and being a role model worthy of emulation by children, youths and parents in his communities. He assists with the spiritual and psychosocial development of both the children and their parents in the programme, relying heavily on his own faith in God.

Joshua Taylor

Administrative Assistant/Digital Media Executive/Operations Assistant

Uncle Joshua is a graduate of the University of the West Indies, Mona, he majored in Economics including Finance and Development, International Relations, Public Policy Management, and International Security Issues. He has a distinction in Information Technology (CSEC) and a CAPE Advanced Proficiency Diploma in Digital Media and Management of Business.

Uncle Joshua has been with the Child Resiliency Programme for over 4 years and is committed to the stand against crime and violence in Jamaica and believes youth preventative interventions like the Child Resiliency Programme are integral to this effort. He is an active member of the ‘Meet Up’ Youth Group at his church which coaches young adults in being ambassadors for Christ.  

Sharon Brown

Programme Coordinator – Mountain View Primary and Infant

As a child Sharon was passionate about teaching. She acquired a Teaching Diploma in Primary Education from the Mico University College formerly Mico Teachers’ College. She enjoyed working in this position, however, after fourteen (14) years she was convinced she could make a greater impact in the lives of the children and their parents as it relates to welfare, so she shifted to her second career choice Guidance & Counselling. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Guidance & Counselling at the International University of the Caribbean. She is a practicing Counsellor at the Mountain View Primary & Infant School for the past eighteen (18) years. Because of her caring demeanor she had introduced the “Love and Hope Ministries” a humanitarian support group to assist parents and children who have faced unfortunate circumstances. Aunty Sharon has been managing this programme since 2007. Her young adult son Peter-Jhon is dear to her heart. She loves singing, gardening and her pet puppy Snowflakes.  

Miguel Daley (2015-2020)

Uncle Miguel, Assistant coordinator for the program at Falmouth All age school. He is the father of a son and a Mathematics teacher. Miguel is certified in business management and as a school resource officer. He is District Constable of police and a Minister of the gospel. He Plays for the police football club at Falmouth

He is Self motivated, down to earth and easy going and is also responsible for the Sporting Arm of the Child Resiliency Programme.

Sheron Matheson (2017-2020)

Coordinator to the Child Resiliency Program at Sam Sharpe Teachers College

Keisha Griffiths (2017-2020)

Police officer in the Community Safety and Security Branch . She is the Assistant Coordinator to the Child Resiliency Programme at Sam Sharpe Teachers College. Aunty Keisha is a gentle but firm disciplinarian for the children

Judy-Ann Reid-Gordon (2015-2020)

Aunty Judy is the coordinator for the Child Resiliency Programme for Falmouth.

Aunty Judy has been the ​Guidance Counselor at Falmouth All Age School for the past 15yrs. ​She is a mother and enjoy​s ​shopping and listening to music​.

Marilyn Lee (2006-2020)

Programme Assistant & Administrative Director (Retired)

Marilyn is a first class honors graduate of the University of the West Indies, in the field of Natural Sciences, majoring in Chemistry. She has worked locally and abroad in the field of Research and Development and Quality Assurance. At the turn of the century, she made a change in her career and accepted the post of project manager for the Adolescent Reproductive Health project at the Ministry of Health, where she met and worked closely with Dr. Scott on all aspects of Adolescent Health programming including the publication “Youth Rising”. She is the mother of three children and gives her volunteer support to the National Children‘s Home, and the Violence Prevention Alliance. She was known to the programme as the “jack of all trades” and was instrumental in its development since its birth.

The Child Resiliency Program Began at Hope United Church in 2006