In 1996, she graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor’s degree in social work. Originally from Massachusetts, Jenn moved to Florida in 1993 to be closer to her parents, who had left the snow behind the year before. They both have a passion for serving the Lord and being the hands and feet of Jesus in their community. Cammara is very excited to be a part of the Better Together family by providing recourses and extending love and compassion to families in crisis.Ĭammara and her husband, Dan, enjoy spending time playing volleyball and hanging out with friends and their Italian pup, Harley. Cammara is passionate about coming alongside those seeking life change and helping them achieve all that they desire to do for themselves and their families. She has a heart for building relationships and serving women, children and their families and sharing the hope and love of Jesus Christ with everyone she meets. She earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work from Florida Gulf Coast University. He is a founding committee member of the Greater Fort Myers Chamber of Commerce Leadership NEXT, a mentor for Take Stock in Children, a Foundation for Lee County Public Schools committee member and a founding committee member of the Naples Children & Education Foundation Friends of the Foundation.Ĭammara worked in the international nonprofit sector and served as a missionary overseas for 10 years before joining Better Together as the Collier County Family Care Coordinator. In addition, he is driven to help create a multi-generation, multi-industry economy in Southwest Florida. Michael works extensively with closely held corporations, partnerships, small- to middle-market businesses, large private corporations and individuals, primarily within the health care industry. He specializes in the areas of strategic business consulting and structuring, tax planning and preparation, and domestic and international compliance. Prior to joining HBK CPAs & Consultants in 2011, he spent time as a manager at Ernst & Young and Deloitte Tax LLP in their Atlanta, Georgia and Miami, Florida offices. Principal and partner-in-charge of HBK CPAs & Consultant’s Southwest Florida offices Doug dreams that through volunteer initiatives such as Better Together, the need to remove these children from their homes and place them in foster care will no longer exist. In Collier County, more than 700 abused, abandoned and neglected children are removed from their homes each year. It’s for these children that he spends most of his time working to meet their needs that the state does not. Friends of Foster Children meet the unmet needs of kids in the dependency system who have become wards of the state with little to no explanation. His philosophy is to make money, have fun and do all you can to keep the government from destroying what you worked to earn, including working within the system to see that tax dollars do as much good as possible.ĭoug believes that this is a valued venture since Better Together works with volunteer families to help families at-risk who want to stay together, thrive and avoid foster care. All have taught him the glaring unfulfilled needs of children who, through no fault of their own, become dependent on the government. They periodically visit them in Boulder and Chicago, and the rest of the time he spends doing as instructed by Nancy, his wife of 50 years.ĭoug is motivated by Better Together, Friends of Foster Children, Healthcare Network and his involvement as a Guardian ad Litem. They have two children Mary and Jim, and three grandchildren. Doug is a central Kentucky native and was an oil and chemicals industry executive, a career that included 17 moves and more than 20 jobs.ĭoug and his wife Nancy have lived in Naples since 1997 but have had family in the area since 1966. He serves on the board of Healthcare Network of SWFL that provides primary medical, behavioral and dental health care to over half the children in Collier County and, he has been a Guardian ad Litem for 20 years. Doug Campbell’s life is now consumed by trying, through Better Together to keep families together and kids out of foster care and, through Friends of Foster Children Forever, to do for abused and neglected children what neither the state nor any other agency does to make their lives closer to normal.
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