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A new century…A new Chief Executive Officer…
A new era for Rosemary Children’s Services
Greg Wessels, CEO
In the spring of 2000, with the strong encouragement of its Board of Directors, Rosemary Children’s Services invited Greg Wessels to join its administrative team as Chief Executive Officer. Wessels – who, prior to that, had served as Chief Program Officer for Families First in Northern California – accepted the offer and, today, oversees RCS's daily activities.
Under Wessels' tenure, RCS has continued to thrive...and, most importantly, to grow. The number of programs offered at the agency has increased significantly. These include Day Treatment classes, a Group Centered Leadership program and individual and family therapy sessions offered in collaboration with the Department of Mental Health. Additionally, Wessels coordinated efforts to establish a fourth group home, the Green House. Funded through a contract with Los Angeles County, the Green House enables RCS to help 6 additional teenage girls.
Wessels has also built the agency literally, guiding fundraising efforts that lead to the construction of a new parking lot and sports court for the Cottage as well as a landscaping overhaul. Thanks to Wessels, too, students at Rosemary now attend classes in a remodeled facility on the Kinneloa campus rather than study in a double-wide trailer.
"And all this was accomplished on budget," says Board President Selwyn Brereton, a business owner in Pasadena. "We're very fortunate to have Greg at the helm of the agency. Undoubtedly he will continue to guide us into new territory but, as a Board, we know it will always be in the right direction."
A graduate of California State University, Los Angeles who earned his Master's Degree from Columbia Pacific University in Novato, California, Wessels has also served as Chief Operations Officer for Guadalupe Homes and as the Director of Social Services for the Idaho Youth Ranch in Boise and the Optimist Boys' Home in Los Angeles. Today, Wessels makes his home in Sierra Madre, California where, as a volunteer, he gives back to the community that has so generously supported the agency he leads. In October 2005, he will become President of the Kiwanis Club of Pasadena.
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