Bezon hired as associate director for Children’s Disaster Services.

Brethren Disaster Ministries has announced the hiring of an associate director for the Children's Disaster Services program. On Sept. 10, the program located at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., will welcome Judy Bezon as associate director. Brethren Disaster Ministries and Children’s Disaster Services are programs of the Church of the Brethren General Board.

Bezon has provided volunteer services in four rebuilding experiences, as co-leader of the Camp Hope rebuilding effort in Vancleave, Miss., as a disaster child care worker in Louisiana and Florida, as a project manager for Disaster Child Care in New Orleans, and as a site coordinator for Mississippi United Methodist Disaster Response.

She is retired from 30 years as a school psychologist in upstate New York, and has developed skills as a mediator, in sign language, in play therapy, and in conflict resolution for children.

Source: 08/29/2007 Newsline Extra