Team
Hamilton Family Center is successful thanks to the hard work and expertise of our staff, from the Leadership Team listed here to the dedicated Residential Counselors, Case Managers, Coordinators, Therapists, and other professionals working in all of our programs.
Beth Stokes, Executive Director
Beth has been directing programs at Hamilton Family Center since 1999, and assumed leadership of the organization as Executive Director in 2007. She received a Master of Social Welfare from San Francisco State University and has served on the Family Advisory Committee to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. She is frequently invited to speak on family homelessness and poverty at conferences across the United States focusing on homelessness prevention, rapid re-housing, and the impacts of poverty and homelessness on children.
Devra Edelman, Director of Programs
Devra has worked at Hamilton Family Center since April 2005. She supervises and supports the Program Directors of First Avenues, Hamilton Family Residences and Emergency Center, the Transitional Housing Program, The Dudley Apartments, and Project Potential, and provides operational oversight to each of these programs. She received a Master of Social Work from the University of Denver, and worked for five years as Executive Director of the Haight-Ashbury Food Program before coming to Hamilton Family Center.
J. Davey Gerhard, Director of Development
Prior to starting at Hamilton Family Center in June 2009, Davey worked for 10 years in research, writing, and reporting on foundation and government grants. He brings pioneering experience and skill developing online annual fund campaigns, online events, branding and awareness, developing content and publishing blogs, and using social networking websites to build online communities.
Rosa Martinez Castaneda, Director of Finance
Rosa and her staff are responsible for managing the fiscal operations of the entire agency and its six programs. She works closely with the Executive Director and the Board of Directors, as well as with the agency’s independent auditors. She has worked at Hamilton Family Center since October 1998.
Sergio Samame, Human Resources Coordinator
Sergio has worked at Hamilton Family Center since March 2007, and began his employment here as a Home-based Supportive Services Case Manager in First Avenues. Prior to his academic and career shift to human resources, Sergio worked for nine years in social welfare, and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and professional background, in photojournalism.
Keely McCave, Program Director, First Avenues – Housing Solutions for Families
Madelyn Mitchell, Program Director, Hamilton Family Transitional Housing Program
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