Dr. Joanne Frederick Dr. Foston has dedicated her entire professional life to working with teenagers. In her role as the Executive Director of the Foston Institute for Holistic Mentoring. She has been committed to brokering for teens medically, psychologically and now spiritually. She has guided thousands of teens to write three original musicals, 18 television episodes, and taught them to latch hook a 25 sq yd tapestry that says Don’t Do Drugs. Some of her teens have gone on to become Grammy-nominated, and Broadway performers. One of her teens starred in Tyler Perry’s first successful stage play. Dr. Foston has also produced two full-length feature movies, several Readers Theaters, and a video poetry album, and two movie soundtracks. In her role as the Executive Director of the Foston Institute for Holistic Mentoring. While serving as the CEO and Board Chair the past two years, Dr Foston has devoted her time and energy to starting the Foston Foundation, a 501c3. Its mission is to train caring adults to become GUIDES who can escort at-risk youth through the hazardous journey from adolescence to adulthood. They are also being trained to find and nurture gifts in any teen, while steering them around the common pitfalls of adolescence. Dr. Foston has designed fun-filled training weekend in late September for its third annual GUIDEs Training Class, in Clarksville, TN. It includes 16 hours of didactics and concludes with an Escape Room Exercise where participants must assist a troubled youth before they can complete the training. She has worked tirelessly on the foundation with the goal of sharing her well-honed techniques of working successfully with youth with a caring community who will hopefully carry on her legacy. The Foundation has a seven-member Board of Directors whose combined expertise in mentoring youth is over 120 years.
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