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About Us

Our Mission

The mission of Golden Youth Service, LLC is to create an environment where clients are able to learn coping skills to handle their mental health, behavioral/emotional struggles, and chemical dependencies. It is to provide the highest quality of care by utilizing a balance of professionalism, knowledge, dignity, compassion, empathy and respect to each and every client we are given the opportunity to serve. This will be accomplished by positive regard and employees of Golden Youth Services having unconditional support of those children, teenagers and families we serve.

Our Story

Golden Youth Services, LLC began their journey in 2016, when they started by supporting at risk youth with challenging behaviors who were looking to learn life skills and begin their adulthood. To many others, these youths did not fit in any group-home settings available in the state. A lot of these youths were just seeking to learn how to be independent and embrace the next step, with a support system. That embarkment lead to them growing and expanding their knowledge, skill sets, and services into other different vulnerable populations.

Since then, they have grown and added other programs to their mission of encouraging many youths and helping them reach their goals. As of today, GYS is proudly serving many youths across their two programs. They currently have (1) Out of Home Services/DDA locations, and (2) Enhanced Respite Services/DDA Location in the Spokane Valley, WA. They work with youth ages 8 to up to 21 years old in group home settings. Golden Youth Services continues to offer their youth positive techniques, coping skills, and mentoring to build self-worth so they may overcome past events and traumas. While also setting them up for success in the future. Their services are built to provide structure and routine in a supportive environment, which enables positive behavior development. Golden Youth Services will continue to dedicate their time and principles to provide an unconditionally loving and supportive environment to the youths they have the privilege to serve.

Meet our team

CEO

Harold Guidi

Harold was born and raised in West Africa. He came to the United States in 2010 to go to college and earn his doctorate degree. The desire to become a doctor has been his dream since childhood, and he aspires to help others in whatever capacity he can. Harold earned his B.A. in pre-med with a minor in Bio-Chem at EWU while leading Golden Youth Services. He has worked in multiple fields such as Community Protection, the CIBS program with DDA, Behavior Tech for youth with challenging behavior, and IP for youth and adults with medical needs in home settings. Each of these experiences and challenging environments have pushed him to open his own business to work with a larger variety of youth. He is a motivated individual with a hard-working mentality; he has never backed down from a challenge and pushes himself to be a better person. He motivates others to do better in their lives and is patient when it comes to working with individuals who have different struggles. He is willing to do whatever it takes to overcome challenges.

Program Director

Cejae Falk

Cejae has been a part of the Golden Youth Services team for over 4 years. She has continued to grow and move up within the company into Program Director. Before GYS, she was a supervisor and was a part of building case aide program for at risk youth or youth with disabilities. Her passion for children started at a young age while working with autistic children. She has over 10 years’ experience working with seniors, young adults, and children with developmental disabilities. She has her A.A. degree, and a B.A. in Human Services with Child and Family focus. She takes a lot of pride in our programs and ensuring each client we serve can be successful. She is also very compassionate and dedicated to the population we serve. Cejae is originally from a small town in Whitman County, she grew up on a farm, where her family farms wheat/cattle ranch. She enjoys spending time with her husband and kids at home and making memories.

Behavioral Consultant

Amber Griggs

Amber was born and raised in Spokane. Her passion to work with youth started at a young age and has only grown over the last 15 years. She received her bachelor’s degree in child development from EWU in 2019. From there she started her journey in the field of ABA. Amber started as a behavior technician and worked her way up to a supervisor. During that time, she received her master’s degree in Behavioral Analysis from Simmons University. Amber is very passionate about the Autism community. She enjoys learning more about developmental disabilities and taking that knowledge to teach others. When Amber is not working, she is spending time with her family. 

Program Manager

Tina Gonzalez

Tina is originally from California, having spent 12 years serving children of all ages, specializing with children with ASD and behavioral/mental disorders aboard Marine Corp base, Camp Pendleton. She moved to Washington in 2012 and begun working with high school students in the Cheney School District with behavioral struggles while at school. She has a master’s in human resource management and business administration. Tina joined GYS in October of 2021 as a program coordinator looking over 2 of the youth houses. She has worked into the position of program manager. She is passionate about advocating for youth and strives to help others. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her kids and boyfriend, walking her English mastiffs and going camping.

Program Coordinator

Eddie Herrera

Originally from Florida, Eddy comes to us from Denver, Colorado in December ’22. He received his bachelor’s in psychology in Applied Behavior Analysis. He worked in the ABA field for 4 years directly with youths with an ASD and/or Downs diagnosis and moved into managing the office for both in-home and center-based services. He is passionate about his work and enjoys helping others. In his free time, he likes painting, being active, trying new foods, and exploring Spokane.

Program Coordinator

Nick Plaut

Nick is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. Nick grew up in the Pacific Northwest before moving to Chicago for work. Nick returned to Spokane in 2018 where he discovered his passion for serving the special needs community. Nick has over 5 years of experience serving the local special needs population of Spokane and he looks forward to bringing that experience to GYS. Nick enjoys skiing, fishing, camping and is working hard to improve his disc golf game. 

Programs Manager

Cejae Falk

Cejae assists our program coordinators in managing all of our programs. She has been a part of the Golden Youth Services team for close to two years. Previous to GYS, she was a supervisor for a budding case aide program. Her passion for children started at a young age while working with autistic children. She has nearly 10 years’ experience working with seniors, young adults, and children with developmental disabilities. She has her A.A. degree and will be completing her B.A. in Human Services with Child and Family focus in the Spring. She takes a lot of pride in our programs and ensuring each client we serve can be successful. She is also very compassionate and dedicated to the population we serve.
VPS Program Coordinator

Adrienne Schnell-Traylor

Adrienne is married with 3 biological children, 4 stepchildren, and 2 grandbabies. Her family is what she lives for. She’s currently getting her Bachelor’s degree in Human Services at Whitworth University. Adrienne plans on getting her Master’s degree in Public Administration; she has been in this field for about 10 years and is very passionate about helping people. While the things she loves doing the most have been put on hold due to COVID, she has learned to find new things to enjoy. Teaching her kids card games her mother taught her and letting them teach her one of theirs are sone of the things enjoys. She’s been doing house parties with friends and even virtual game nights. She tries to live her life to the fullest every day.

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