Lost-N-Found Youth Careers
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Lost-N-Found Youth Executive Team
Melanea Alvarez
Executive Director
Melanea is originally from OH-IO, the Buckeye state. She relocated to Georgia in 2014 when she accepted a senior HR leadership role with a local financial institution. Throughout her career, Melanea has held leading roles with fortune 500 consulting firms spearheading global and domestic client engagements across various industries. Her expertise is in HR Transformation with a keen sense for business development, operational excellence, strategic planning, and technology. Prior to becoming the executive director for the Atlanta nonprofit, Melanea was a highly active volunteer for the organization, later becoming a board member and ultimately the board chair for two consecutive terms. Melanea wears many hats and leaves no stone unturned when it comes to supporting youth and community, she is passionate about giving youth choices and resources to help build their future so they may live independently.
Neena Beausoleil
Director of Programs
Before her role as Director of Programs at Lost-n-Found Youth, Neena Beausoleil was a devoted advocate for houseless youth in Los Angeles for nearly a decade. As program manager at Youth Emerging Stronger, (formerly the LA Youth Network) Neena helped develop and manage a six-bed Runaway Homeless Youth shelter for minors. In expanding the mission of the agency, she helped secure grant funding, development, and management of a twenty-three bed Transitional Living Program with scattered site apartments aimed at promoting self-sufficiency for young adults ages 18-25 years in the Hollywood area.
Notable achievements include the successful transition of more than 70% of young adult clients into permanency and into their own apartments and the provision of a Safe Space for 40% of LGBTQIA+ young adults enrolled in the program. Neena helped develop holistic program tracks to promote successful case planning that builds on the strengths of the individual. Neena is committed to the highest standards of service provision and was influential in the successful national accreditation (CARF) of her previous agency’s housing program.
Neena has extensive experience working with LGBTQIA+ and at-risk houseless young adult populations. Neena believes that a trauma-informed care approach helps young adults achieve their goals while working towards self-sufficiency. Neena’s favorite time spent with her client’s is teaching and demonstrating to them important life skills.
Obtaining her MSW in 2006, Neena has worked in several capacities as a social worker including foster care and adoptions, community service programs, counseling, and outreach services.In her personal time Neena loves to spend time with family, try new cooking recipes and travel to beaches and hiking trails. She is passionate about women’s, immigrant and LGBTQIA+ rights and equality.