SCAN's 20th Anniversary
For two decades, SCAN has been changing the lives of children and families across Northern Virginia. In 2008 we celebrated our 20th anniversary by hosting special events, growing our programs and introducing more people to SCAN!
During our anniversary year, SCAN was recognized for 20 years of changing children’s lives by the Commonwealth of Virginia, as well as by a number of local governments.
> Learn more about the proclamations given in SCAN’s honor
Snapshots of Hope
As part of our 20th anniversary celebration, SCAN invites you to meet just some of the people who have touched our history...
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Lisa Collis Ask Lisa Collis about SCAN and she immediately talks about SCAN’s Alexandria/Arlington CASA Program and her experience as a CASA volunteer. Being a CASA volunteer brought her face-to-face with the reality that there are no easy fixes to difficult issues such as substance abuse, teen parenting, poverty, single parenting and generational child abuse... READ MORE |
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Candace Radoski Candace Radoski found SCAN just a few months after her first son, Jacob, was born in 2002. He was a very challenging infant, and Candace and her husband found that parenting him—even with the support of friends, family and one another—to be very difficult. This led her to reflect on her own struggles, and she began to truly understand and appreciate the difficulties other families must face when parenting with fewer resources than she and her husband had been able to marshal... READ MORE |
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Jacqueline (Jackie) Rodriguez Single parents face many challenges. SCAN volunteer and parent facilitator for SCAN’s weekly English Educational Parent Support Group, Jackie Rodriguez, knows all too well the demands of juggling a full-time job along with the responsibilities of being a single mother to her now ten-year old son, Miguel... READ MORE |
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Judge Stephen Rideout SCAN’s CASA Program began just before Judge Stephen Rideout was appointed to the bench in March 1989. Equipped with a zeal to improve court processes and programs that produced better outcomes for children, Judge Rideout served both as a child advocate and an advocate for the CASA Program in Alexandria... READ MORE |
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Ann Caulkins CASA Case Supervisor Ann Caulkins was already a committed child advocate when she first learned about SCAN in 1995. Perhaps that’s why her commitment to SCAN is especially inspiring—she already understood the importance of protecting children and immediately saw an opportunity at SCAN to optimize her impact on the children and families in her community... READ MORE |
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Sabrina Black CASA Volunteer Since moving to the Washington DC area from Texas in 1988, Sabrina Black has worked as a paralegal for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, helping to prosecute federal drug cases since 1989. Early on in this job, she saw a lot of young men and women wrapped up in the drug scene and she often wondered about their families — particularly their children. ... READ MORE |
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Diane Charles SCAN Executive Director Diane Charles accepted the invitation to become SCAN’s Executive Director more than 9 years ago, when the organization had just 3 staff members. Today, Diane lead’s a staff of 11—and that’s not all that has changed... READ MORE |
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Melissa O'Neill State CASA Program Coordinator, Virginia Department of Criminal JusticeSystem (DCJS) When Melissa joined DCJS in 1997, there were 22 CASA programs in Virginia. She traveled around the state to introduce and be introduced to each one. SCAN’s CASA Program was the 5th Virginia program to emerge in 1988, and Melissa would have a unique perspective as the program grew... READ MORE |
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Amira Ebied & Christina Mark Playgroup Parent Leaders One found it through a trusted friend; the other through a search on Google, but both Amira Ebied and Christina Mark found far more than they could have ever imagined in SCAN’s weekly developmental playgroup---Learn, Play & Grow Together. READ MORE |
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Dave Cleary Founder of SCAN Dave Cleary’s years in the Minnesota State Legislature and personal involvement with children convinced him that ensuring positive parenting and nurturing environments for children could make a dramatic difference in reducing crime, incarceration, and other community ills. Yet, in the mid-1980s, Northern Virginia had no organization specifically focused on child abuse prevention... READ MORE |
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Ana Maria Gomez SCAN Parent Education Facilitator Born in Peru, Ana Maria earned an impressive list of academic and professional credentials before coming to the United States in 2002. The following January, she saw a flyer for one of SCAN's parent support groups. She called the SCAN office thinking she would register for the group as a participant, but something entirely different was about to happen... READ MORE |
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Rita Community member who received CASA advocacy as a child As long as she can remember, Rita moved from house to house as her mother’s addiction to drugs left Rita with little supervision or stability. They stayed with different family members until they overstayed their welcome and moved on. As a 10-year old, she came and went as she pleased, fended for herself for meals and clothes, and used her own survival instincts to face the world. When her mother abandoned her on Christmas Eve, she was a little girl all alone... READ MORE |
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Jack LeCuyer SCAN Donor, Former Board Member, Volunteer, and a SCAN Legacy Donor Jack LeCuyer graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1966. After 28 months in Vietnam, he completed studies at the University of Florence in and a Masters Degree from the JFK School of Government at Harvard. He was selected as a White House Fellow in 1977 and completed a distinguished career in the Army while serving as the Senior Army Fellow on National Security Policy at the Brookings Institution. After his retirement from the army, Colonel LeCuyer was named Executive Director of the White House Fellows Alumni Association and President of the White House Fellows Foundation. So how did he ever find SCAN? READ MORE |
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Judy Beavers SCAN Volunteer In 2002, Judy Beavers came to SCAN looking to make a difference as a volunteer. Her commitment to children, desire to make a difference, and willingness to help have led her to volunteer on behalf of children through various organizations in this region. A paralegal for a local law firm in Alexandria, Judy wanted to offer her administrative and organizational skills to help strengthen SCAN as an organization... READ MORE |
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Bernie Lucas Public Affairs Director for Clear Channel Communications Before he became Public Affairs Director for Clear Channel Communications in the D.C. Metro Region, Bernie Lucas was first a DJ with 98.7 WMZQ, and then ten years ago became the station’s Commercial Production Director. Shortly after Bernie’s career move, SCAN began taping Raising Children Today, a monthly public affairs segment focused on positive parenting. In 2005, Clear Channel asked Bernie to take on the challenge of producing the public affairs programs for all eight of their Washington, D.C. stations... READ MORE |
