Services Training

Tom P. Avramis

PO Box **** Laguna Beach, CA ***** 951-***-**** ********@*****.***

SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONAL

Pursuing systemic change and building awareness to expand impact of youth services programs.

Youth, Human Services & Fund Development Community Engagement Legislative Advocacy

Visionary, highly experienced leader with demonstrated track record of driving exponential growth by expanding

organization reach and streamlining internal processes. Grew organization nearly 4 fold, providing cost effective oversight of

$70 million budget and services delivered across a 7 state region.

Champion mission and provide inspiring vision as outgoing advocate and public face for organization, engaging and

persuading stakeholders to achieve objectives. Launched charitable foundation raising $700,000 in the first year and

repeatedly gained high profile press to consistently operate at capacity.

Verifiable history of motivating multicultural teams and spearheading strategic planning, program development, and training

to standardized programs and services. Earned reputation for effectiveness and built track record of results with verifiable

theory and outcome measures touted by Stanford University.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

ADVANCED EDUCATION SERVICES, Colton, CA

Family of 5 independent agencies whose mission is to provide state of the art special education, therapeutic foster care, 24 hour

residential treatment, and mental health services to youth requiring intensive treatment.

CONTRIBUTIONS SNAPSHOT: Transformed $17 million operation serving 1 state (California) into $70 million agency serving up

to 7 states including California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, South Carolina, and Texas, expanding education and social services

to clients to deliver effective programming for up to 1300 youth clients per day.

President (1995–2010)

Chief Operating Officer (1991–1995)

Recruited to direct operations of 1 company and grew organization to include 5 separate organizations under AES, including Trinity

Youth Services, Acts for Children, Triad Family Services, and Children’s Foundation of America, as well as provide oversight of

a large AES controlled HUD senior living community. Cultivated personal relationships with numerous key public officials to

advocate for education and intensive social services for youth, grow funding base, and facilitate expansion across states. Supervised 4

direct reports managing 1300 employees across 28 locations in up to 7 states.

Overhauled unsophisticated Board, recruiting and training talented, influential leaders to rebuild Boards of Directors for all companies

and engaging leadership teams in agency mission. Streamlined internal processes and centralized administrative, training, and

purchasing functions to reduce costs, realize savings through economies of scale purchasing, improve service, and standardize delivery

of programs.

Selected Results & Contributions:

Developed partnerships with corporate entities to compensate for declining governmental reimbursements, securing

private funding and advocate for legislative policies to facilitate growth.

Grew non profit organization more than 300% to become California’s largest non public school system while simultaneously

expanding infrastructure and enlarging professional staff 175% to enable growth.

Produced $700,000 in first year contributions following founding and establishment and launch of new charitable foundation,

“Children’s Foundation of America.”

Spearheaded annual charitable events, including a golf tournament that netted $5,000 in 2006 but grew to net $230,000 by

2008.

Tom P. Avramis

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ADVANCED EDUCATION SERVICES (Continued)

Saved millions of dollars over multi year period, eliminating potential governmental margin garnishments by authoring new

legal structure for distribution of funds within family of companies and leveraging political connections to gain Federal

approval of new structure.

Realized new revenue, developing additional revenue stream by licensing, trade marking, and training other agencies in

program model.

Raised agency’s public profile, increased referrals and enrollments, and bolstered fundraising efforts by strengthening

messaging to public and stakeholders and gaining positive press and exposure.

Positioned organization to receive proceeds and positive press through special events of high profile civic and philanthropic

entities including the NBC Today Show and the Los Angeles Lakers.

Commissioned top Stanford University researchers to determine program efficacy, bolstering credibility with objective

measures proving program model effectiveness as twice the national average.

Secured acclaim in sources such as Beverly Hills magazine, earned national recognition within field, and increased client

referrals through governmental entities to consistently operate at capacity.

Expanded array of programming and intensive social services, extended reach of effective programs, and standardized

program delivery across locations.

Advocated through political relationships, both local, state and federal, to achieve expanded programming from serving 450

clients per day in California to 1300 per day in seven states.

Designed and launched a series of educational, intervention, and charitable programs and services, coordinating with school

and local governmental officials to achieve outstanding results meeting needs of target youth population.

Initiated and launched centralized training department to train staff across locations in applying program model and monitor

compliance and standardization of programming to maintain model integrity and program effectiveness.

GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO

Priest (1981 – Present)

Quadrupled size of Bay Area parish in 8 years.

Founder of successful preschool program that generated substantial revenue.

Founder of East Bay Coalition for the Homeless, Hungry and Lonely serving 3000 annually.

Spearheaded campaign to design and construct multi million dollar youth, recreation and community center.

Authored and launched numerous programs for clergy and lay persons, many of which have been adopted nationally.

Served at request of Archbishop of San Francisco as interim priest at numerous parishes needing assistance due to a variety

of reasons.

Consultant to Archdiocese of America New York on Committee for Clergy Misconduct National Policy formation.

Consultant to Archdiocese of America New York in matters relating to social services, residential treatment and mental

health services for youth.

Tom P. Avramis

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EDUCATION & LANGUAGES

Master of Science, Counseling Psychology

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Hayward, CA

Master of Divinity

HOLY CROSS COLLEGE, Brookline, MA

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, AZ

Fluent in Greek

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Member, Elios Society, San Francisco, CA

President, Guadalupe Manor HUD Low Income Housing Campus, Fountain Valley, CA

Founder, Children’s Foundation of America, Colton, CA

Founding Board Member, Focus North America, Kansas City, MO

Former Board Member, Patriarch Athenagoras Institute, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA

Former Board Member, California Alliance for Child and Family Services, Sacramento, CA

Former Board Member, Child Welfare League of America Western Region Steering Committee, Washington, DC

Former Consultant, White House Faith based Initiative, George W. Bush Administration

California Community Colleges Lifetime Instructor Certification

Planned Giving Certificate, The Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University

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