Young Mind Community Center
Sara Mertel currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Young Mind Community Center since January 2019 and has held the position of Chief Operating Officer at the Young Mind Center since 2016. Mertel's previous roles include faculty positions at Arizona State University from 2010 to 2016, where responsibilities encompassed lecturing and research in nonprofit leadership, community resources, and program evaluation. Mertel also has experience teaching middle school language arts and serving in various capacities within nonprofit organizations, including as Executive Director at All-Star Kids Tutoring. Mertel holds a Ph.D. and an M.Ed. from Arizona State University, and dual bachelor's degrees in Sociology and Global Studies from UC Santa Barbara.
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Young Mind Community Center
Young Mind Community Center is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with autism and their families through inspiring understanding, developing potential, and creating community. Our Team We help you create your best today and tomorrow. You and your family are at the heart of our team. You are the expert in your child and their most important caregiver, teacher, and advocate. We are experts in development, early childhood education, behavior, autism, communication, sensory motor integration, and family support. Together we create a whole much greater than the sum of its parts. Our Approach Each child has a unique combination of strengths and challenges and with individualized instruction can succeed. Our transdisciplinary approach optimizes resources, redefines problems outside normal boundaries, limits service fragmentation, efficiently integrates knowledge across teams, and innovates to reach new solutions and optimize results. Our Culture We genuinely love and are inspired by the work we do, the families we serve, the community we create, and the positive changes we produce in the world. We bring to life our core values of community, commitment, and courage by practicing them daily in all our actions, large and small. Our values shape our culture, guide our actions, and embody our distinctiveness. They make us…us.