 Giovanna Taormina, Executive Director
Giovanna Taormina, Executive Director, and Co-Founder, provides national training, materials, consultation, and technical assistance related to female responsive services to non-profit agencies, government, state supported programs, institutions, and systems that work with adolescent girls. She is a national consultant to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, has extensive experience in the development and implementation of program services for girls, and is recognized for her work in both the public and private sectors. She has co-developed a comprehensive, integrated, female-responsive model to address the risk factors and needs of adolescent girls in a format that is conducive to building on girls’ strengths and developing resiliency. She has a Bachelor’ s Degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and has 16 years combined experience in Organizational Development & Training, management, and sales. Her experience with facilitating Girls Circles with middle and high school girls in her community, and her own two daughters, dates back to 1995 and includes leading circles for girls in the San Francisco Juvenile Justice System. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
E-mail: gtaormina@girlscircle.com | Phone: (707) 794-9477
 Beth Hossfeld, MFT, Associate Director
Beth Hossfeld, MFT is Co-Founder and Associate Director of Girls Circle Association, and the Council for Boys and Young Men. She is a national leader on gender-responsive group programs for youth, co-author of the Girls Circle and The Council Facilitator Training Manuals. She has authored and edited many of the Girls Circle and Council Facilitator Activity guides and articles, and is a contributing author to the Handbook on Prevention and Intervention Programs for Adolescent Girls, Ed. LeCroy, C., published by J. Wiley and Sons, 2007. She serves as Research Coordinator for both Girls Circle and Boys Council collaborative studies with partnering organizations. Beth served as Clinical and Training Director of an eighteen site school-based mental health and substance abuse prevention and early intervention program, as well as an outpatient adolescent treatment program at Bay Area Community Resources where she provided clinical supervision and training to mental health interns and substance abuse counselors. She is a licensed marriage, family and child therapist and maintains a part time practice in Mill Valley, CA, with an emphasis on girls, teens, and their families. She has facilitated Girls Circle groups for girls in community based programs, and continuation high schools.
E-mail: beth.hossfeld@gmail.com | Phone: (415) 388-0644
 Kitty Tyrol, Senior Training Manager
Kitty Tyrol, Senior Training Manager for the Girls Circle Association has diverse experience in Youth Program Development, Staff Development & Training, and Quality Assurance. As a Consultant and Trainer for the State
of Connecticut Judicial Branch and Department of Children and Families Bureau of Juvenile Services; she trains Probation, Parole, and Detention staff, as well as community-based service providers in a wide array of evidence-based curricula and risk reduction approaches. Ms. Tyrol is a Certified Trainer of Reasoning & Rehabilitation 2r for the Cognitive Centre of Canada; and also trains Strength-Based Approach; Female Responsive Strategies; Motivational Interviewing; Cultural Competency; and Ethics and Boundaries in Social Service. She has authored several training and intervention curricula, including "Employment Services for Alternative Incarceration Centers." As co-founder of CT Girls Consortium and in serving various advisory committees; Ms. Tyrol is an advocate for gender equity and gender justice throughout social services - seeking collaborations and opportunities wherein the voices and experiences of girls and women influence change in service delivery models. She and her family live in Connecticut.
E-mail: ktyrol@girlscircle.com | Phone: (860) 874-2545
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