Our Site Admin/Webmaster/founder is Kris. She started running The Young Mommies Homesite as a side project when she was an 18-year-old new mommy, and it has grown from there! With the site growing so large, she has passed on responsibility for core areas of the site to other moms to make sure the site remains able to support young mothers!
Most of the activity on the site is centered on the YM Boards so we have a new Boards Director, Sarah. We also have a volunteer staff of Board Coordinators/Moderators there. These moms are in charge of maintaining our Boards, and are closely in touch with the members to make sure the moms are always feeling supported.
Our staff philosophy is to work as a collective as much as possible. When important decisions need to be made, members have a say in what actions are taken, and how. We try to listen to our members as much as possible to best respond to their unique needs. We're really proud of the great team of volunteers we have helping out!
In addition to Team members at the operation level, we have other contributors as well. This includes several mommy bloggers who share their stories on the YM blogs, and members of our Research Team who search out local resources to be added to our City-by-city Directory.
Wondering who's "behind the scenes" here at YM? Take a peek at our staff profiles! :)
YM Boards Team:
Sarah T. is our new Boards Director. She is a Canadian mommy from a small town just outside of our nation's capital.
She's happily married to Justin and a SAHM to three children; Brayden, Logan and Caleb, with one more on the way, due in late 2011.
She's currently the mod for several forums; furbabies is a place to talk about our furry children or the
scaly, feathered non-human companions, Mommies of agels is a board dedicated to those who have suffered
a pregnancy loss (whether it is from an abortion, miscarriage or still born, she can come to this board to
express our feelings and tell our stories). What's New is the place to come update us on what is going
on in your life and to post in the monthly roll call. In the Salute boards, she moderates Need to Vent
which is the one board excempt from the no swearing rule, here you can let out all that steam whether
it is directed at your partner, family members or work. Family Planning is a board to talk all about
birth control, trying to conceive, Natural Family Planning and anything related to your menstrual cycle.
She also moderates the Always Young Mommies board which is aimed at members who are 25 and over - it is
wonderful place for "older" young moms and gives a place to connect and talk about the unique
challenges of raising school aged children as the rest of the woman of that age are just starting to settle down.
Kris is the Site Director, & webmaster of YoungMommies. She founded the Young Mommies site in 1998.
She quickly transitions from being taking care of the site's needs from graphics design to advertising to
writing articles - whatever's needed!
She is a proud mom to DD Harmony Meghan (born 11/27/98), DS Avery Ryan (born 12/29/2004) and to DAs angel ronan, willow roselyn, and sienna rain (m/c in 02/2002, 10/2002, & 10/2003) She and her partner Paul have been together since 2002 and have survived a lot of challenges in their unique blended family!
Kris graduated from university in 2003 and holds a 4-year B.A. honours degree in Psychology and a B.A. concentration degree in Women's Studies. Since graduating, she has been a SAHM, WAHM, and WOHM. However, after numerous vehicle impacts (2000, 2008, 2011), she has been left with very debilitating pain and disabilities and was unable to continue any of her possible career paths.
In addition to trying to continue her volunteer work here at YoungMommies, Kris runs a very small business, KStar Design, where she offers thousands of Freebies as well as hand-crafted cards & precious baby gifts:
Kris's husband Paul is YM's tech support. He is pretty much the only male involved in the site, and the
only one who is not a young mom, though he is of course a young parent.
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