Michael Terkeltaub

Mike Terkeltaub serves as the Executive Director of Triad Training and Consulting Services as well as a consultant to local and state agencies regarding the development of family focused, strengths based services for children and families. He has over 20 years experience developing, implementing and operating community based programming for at-risk youth and families. He has been instrumental in developing strengths-based, community-based initiatives in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. These programs include Systems of Care approaches, Wrap-around process, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic group homes, in-home services, mentoring, respite, and after school programs. He has consulted to communities and agencies in Virginia, Kansas, Arizona, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and the Netherlands.

He began his career in 1974 as a Residential Treatment Child Care Worker with the Jewish Child Care Agency in New York. He coordinated services at the Youth Residence Center, a 42-bed co-educational group home in New York City and served as the Program Director of the Residential Program for youth with developmental disabilities at the Barry Robinson Center in Norfolk, Virginia.

Mr. Terkeltaub was an early developer of community-based programs in Virginia developing in-home service programs at the Barry Robinson Center and Carpe Diem of Virginia. He received training in strength-based approaches and wrap-around services from nationally recognized trainers such as Karl Dennis and Mary Grelish. He served as a member of the Norfolk Community Assessment Team, The Virginia Commission of Youth Juvenile Justice Workgroup, and The Virginia Utilization Management in a System of Care Work Group, among others.

Mr. Terkeltaub served as the Hampton Virginia Family Assessment and Planning Team Coordinator (FAPT) and Coordinator of Comprehensive Services. He created several public/private partnerships, including specialized intensive foster care homes, teaching parent homes, intensive case management services and specialized homes for children and families with complex needs. He provided technical assistance to a variety of localities around Virginia in creating community-based, family focused programs.

Mr. Terkeltaub is a trainer in a variety of topics including working with aggressive youth, working with youth in foster care, strength-based assessments, developing family-focused approaches, Systems of Care initiatives, utilization management, and developing and implementing Wrap-around processes. He has also trained staff in administration of the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS).

Mike and his wife have served as treatment foster parents for children and adolescents. Mr. Terkeltaub holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from City University of New York and a Master of Arts Degree in Social Issues from Old Dominion University. He was born into the foster care system in Norfolk Virginia and works diligently to improve outcomes for at-hope young people and families served by multiple child-serving agencies.

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Latoya Colbourne

Latoya Colbourne, Youth Coordinator at Triad Training and Consulting Services, has a unique perspective having lived and worked in the child welfare system for the past 25 years. Latoya was first placed in the foster care system in the Virgin Islands at the age of seven. She was whisked to the United States where she was once again placed in foster care in New York City in 1984 after significant abuse and neglect resulting in physical and emotional scars.

She was placed in 9 different foster homes as were her five siblings. Eventually she was separated from her siblings and was placed in residential treatment in upstate New York. She remained in the same RTC for seven years. She was considered a troubled child resulting in many restrictions and physical responses.

Latoya developed internal strengths and a strong support system after leaving foster care and eventually joining Americorps. These ongoing supports have shaped a dynamic young woman who has worked as a teacher, mentor and child advocate. Latoya is presently developing an independent living skills initiative working with two consultants presently living in the foster care system in Virginia and Arizona respectively.

Latoya provides consultation and support for children and families impacted by the child welfare system, young adults developing independent living skills and young adults transitioning to adulthood. She firmly believes that we can positively impact the negative outcomes for children leaving foster care who all too often end up homeless, without an education, without a job and without hope for the future.

Latoya presently lives with a young man who she met when he was in kindergarten and needed a family. She has provided a home and family for this young man and has reconnected him to his natural family. Latoya lives in Norfolk, Virginia but supports children and families in many communities.

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