Former Board Members

Kenny Fingerman 2011

In 2008, Kenny Fingerman became an active member of CAFETY. He later founded The Family Foundation School TRUTH Campaign, an alumni campaign dedicated to exposing institutionalized child abuse that alumni describe as normal practice in an upstate New York boarding school.

Kenny has coordinated efforts to expose the horrors of the troubled teen industry, including coordinating an undercover investigation to expose a New York State education official covering up child abuse at The Family Foundation School. In 2010, Kenny Fingerman assisted in compiling abuse allegations along with various private investigations, which led to a New York State multi-agency investigation into a troubled teen facility that was unregulated by any State or Federal agency.

Kenny, 24, resides in New York City and is currently pursuing a degree in criminal justice.

Kenny can be contacted directly by emailing Kenny@CAFETY.org

Carolina Hatfield 2010

Carolina Hatfield is an Oregon resident who was raised in Florida. She currently holds an A.A. in Graphic Design and a B.S. in Liberal Studies. She is working towards a Master in Speech and Language Pathology.

Carolina Anais Hatfield enrolled her daughter at Greenbrier Academy for Girls, a “therapeutic boarding school” in WV, in 2009. Her daughter had been diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome and ADD. School administrators convinced Carolina that Greenbrier would be a good school for her daughter. After five very long and torturous months, for both daughter and mother, Carolina withdrew her daughter from the school. Carolina feels that Greenbrier’s program was not well suited for her child and that she had been misled by the school. Knowing that other parents have had more severe negative outcomes for their families, Carolina is devoted in her effort to make the general public aware of the dangers some of these programs pose to children.

Chris Noroski 2009-2011

Chris Noroski, 23, is an alumni of the Family Foundation School in Hancock, NY (2001-2004) and the Vice-President of CAFETY. He is currently a student at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN where he will graduate with a degree in Science and Mathematics for Elementary Education in December 2009. Chris looks forward to working with CAFETY to reform best practice standards for Children's Mental Health in an industry movement towards youth-centered care!

Brian Neff, M.A.L.D. 2010

As the proud older brother of a remarkably witty, tenacious, warm-hearted, and courageous young survivor named Matt, who endured many heartbreaking months in a residential program that since has been singled out in a congressional investigation for alleged child abuse and deceptive marketing practices, Brian Neff is deeply committed to the strictest federal regulation of these programs to ensure that their methods are 100% congruent with evidence-based psychological science and international human rights standards.

Brian is a specialist in international human rights, conflict resolution, and global mental health, with a focus on Eastern Africa.

Brian Lombrowski, M.P.P. 2007-2012

Brian Lombrowski, 28, is currently the Co-Facilitator for The Youth Experience and President of the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth, and has been involved with the mental health service system as a youth recipient, family member, youth advocate, and professional for the past 15 years.

Brian received his bachelor’s of arts in psychology from the University of Maryland in the spring of 2002, and received his masters in public policy from the University of Chicago in the spring of 2004.

Kendall Atterbury, M.A., M.T.S. 2010

Kendall Atterbury recognizes the need for appropriate youth services for adolescents in crisis, she is completely opposed to programs whose “therapeutic” course involves any practices designed to humiliate, denigrate, or “break” youth or which otherwise employ violence as corrective behavioral measures. In full support of improved regulation and licensing standards of youth programs, Kendall is also committed to finding ways to improve the quality and competence of staff, to discourse around youth issues in clinical and non-clinical settings, and to improve clinical interventions.

Kendall received her B.A. in Russian and Soviet Studies from Mount Holyoke College in 1992. She earned an M.A. in Government with a concentration in Political Theory from the University of Virginia in 1998, and she earned an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in 2006. She is currently an M.S.W. student at New York University working toward what she hopes will be a Ph.D. in Social Work. She works at Fountain House in New York City and is involved as a volunteer with the Eastern Massachusetts chapter of the Alternatives to Violence Project in the Massachusetts prison system.

Lenore Behar, Phd. 2009

Lenore Behar received her undergraduate degree in 1959 and doctoral degree in 1963 in clinical psychology from Duke University. She completed postdoctoral work at Duke University and then worked at the Community Guidance Center of Bexar County, San Antonio, Texas, before taking a faculty position in 1965 in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 1973, she assumed the position of Chief of Child Mental Health Services in the state office of the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services. The major responsibilities of this position were to plan, develop, monitor, advocate for and provide technical assistance and training to the child mental health services in the 40 area mental health programs serving 100 counties of North Carolina. Other responsibilities of this office were to manage resources, provide leadership for program development and financing of programs, ensure quality services to children and their families and to foster coordination of child mental health services with all other child serving agencies within the public and private sectors.