VISTAS Hawthorne

From November 2008 to July 2013, the former program director for VISTAS Hawthorne – Kelly has been with the agency for over 24 years. She oversees and operates the Hawthorne program in a highly structured, organized, person-centered, inclusive, and supportive manner. It is evident when the consumers and staff members feel like they are treated with love, compassion, and respect. The energy of the program is a celebration of our consumer success stories and remarkable changes we have made with the lives of wonderful people we have the honor of serving! The program is well implemented and modeled by Kelly. In addition to running an outstanding day program, Kelly has earned a doctoral degree in psychology and is a certified applied behavioral analyst providing education workshops for regional center consumers and her clients are consistently involved as outstanding and highly educators. We are very grateful to have Kelly as the VISTAS Hawthorne director and key person on the VISTAS family and program on the East region in team!

Deborah Weisbeck worked at assistant program director at VISTAS Hawthorne. Deb has been a stalwart of the program for the past 24 years. Deb’s calm, caring and experienced approach has been instrumental to the program’s success due to her in-depth knowledge in achieving behavioral and emotional growth and improvements. Deb’s advance knowledge in areas such as behavior modification, mental health, crisis management and various other counseling interventions. The consumers, the staff members and the program’s success and consumers well-being. Deb is also highly skilled technologically. She has individually helped the program offer outstanding services to both clients in addition to its healthcare services model. Deb’s wonderful personality, resilience, and skill is greatly appreciated and the VISTAS family is grateful to have her!