Vision
Echo envisions a world of nonviolence in which adults respect children by ensuring their right to emotional and physical safety.
Mission
The mission of Echo is to educate trauma survivors (including parents and service professionals) about trauma and resilience in order to promote survivor empowerment, resolve individual and community-level trauma, and create the safe, stable, nurturing relationships that break the cycle of generational trauma.
Our Approach
Our approach draws on attachment theory, the latest science on trauma and resilience, survivor wisdom, and the principles of nonviolent communication and trauma-informed care. We believe that all behavior is communication, whether of past hurts or current needs, and that the best way to meet someone in all their humanity is not to manipulate behavior through punishments and rewards but to help them find strategies for regulation and meeting their needs in a way that is safe for them and others. We help parents and other adult trauma survivors acquire the tools to create the compassionate connections that they may have lacked as a child and thus enable them to offer future generations safety, empathy and understanding.
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About our team…
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Carol Melville
Board Chair
Carol Melville is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who worked as Regional Director for South Bay Jewish Family Service Mental Health Center providing counseling and psychotherapy to underserved populations. In her role with Jewish Family Service, she developed community programs, supervised student interns, and administered an on-going professional development program for staff members. She has also worked as a private practice clinician specializing in working with adults with eating disorders, addiction and depression. Carol lives in the South Bay with her husband and daughter.
John Perkins
Treasurer
John is an investment banker and strategy consultant. He has been a Board member since 2013 and serves as Treasurer. Prior to joining the Echo Board, John served on the Marymount High School Board of Directors for seven years, during one of those years he served as lead Finance trustee and five years as Chairman of the Board. John lives in Los Angeles with his two daughters.
Linda Keston
Linda Keston has been an elementary school teacher, school counselor, school psychologist and is a licensed marriage family therapist. Linda has worked with single parent families and two career parent families. She also worked as a mentor and tutor at the teen parenting program established by the founder of Echo Parenting & Education, Ruth Beaglehole, before the inception of the agency. When Echo was formed, Linda was privileged to be a part of its founding and its development.
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