Jean W. Elston Recognized as a Professional of the Year for 2021 by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication
Long Beach, CA, September 14, 2021 --(PR.com)-- Jean Elston of Long Beach, California has been recognized as a Professional of the Year for 2021 by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide for her outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of nonprofit housing services.
About Jean W. Elston
Jean Elston is Acting President and Vice-President at Prosperity Housing Solutions, a nonprofit providing housing for the homeless population in California. Ms. Elston has 4 years of experience. She collaborates with nonprofits and other agencies to build tiny houses for the homeless. In 2018, seeing a need for an energetic nonprofit organization, Prosperity Housing Solutions was formed to facilitate the communication between government and business to find sensible and effective solutions to affordable housing and homelessness. Since their founding, they have grown exponentially. Their mission is focused on making the maximum positive effort for their community to provide affordable housing with pride of ownership and to end homelessness nationwide. Prosperity Housing Solutions advocates for the right of every individual to have clean and safe housing. Their donors, founding members, and board members provide the momentum that helps them affect change.
Ms. Elston previously served in the education field. During her 45 years of service in the Compton Unified School District (CUSD) as a teacher, counselor and psychologist, Ms. Elston, while teaching 5th grade in 1962, supervised a student teacher from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), after teaching only one year, herself. She traveled around the world in 1972, stopping a few days in Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nepal, and Turkey, but spending eight weeks in India, traveling the depth and breadth of the country in order to garner sufficient knowledge to develop units of study for students K-12. While in India, she had an audience with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and visited the homes of individuals from the various castes in the Hindu religion as well as those from the other major religions in India (Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Christianity). Ms. Elston served on the committee that created the first collective bargaining agreement in CUSD in 1975, years of as well as designed and executed an innovative multi-subject program teaching fourth, fifth and six graders from 1976 through 1979 that improved student performance significantly. As a counselor, she supervised a student intern studying to be an elementary counselor, also, at CSULB. Ms. Elston served two terms on the California Teachers Association State (CTA) Representative Council, representing the Compton Education Association (CEA) and both organizations at the 1976 National Education Association (NEA) National Convention.
Jean obtained a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Kansas in 1960 and a M.S. in Counselor Education from the University of Southern California in 1969. She is affiliated with C.T.A., C.E.A., and N.E.A. Jean has one child, Toree. In her spare time, Jean enjoys painting, playing bridge, tennis, and travel.
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” - Mother Teresa
For further information, contact www.phshh.com. Donations to this vital cause can be made directly to the aforementioned website. Please view the following YouTube link about Prosperity Housing Solutions: https://youtu.be/ovT9bOS7U9M.
About Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide
Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide highlights the professional lives of individuals from every significant field or industry including business, medicine, law, education, art, government and entertainment. Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide is both an online and hardcover publication where we provide our members’ current and pertinent business information. It is also a biographical information source for thousands of researchers, journalists, librarians and executive search firms throughout the world. Our goal is to ensure that our members receive all of the networking, exposure and recognition capabilities to potentially increase their business.
About Jean W. Elston
Jean Elston is Acting President and Vice-President at Prosperity Housing Solutions, a nonprofit providing housing for the homeless population in California. Ms. Elston has 4 years of experience. She collaborates with nonprofits and other agencies to build tiny houses for the homeless. In 2018, seeing a need for an energetic nonprofit organization, Prosperity Housing Solutions was formed to facilitate the communication between government and business to find sensible and effective solutions to affordable housing and homelessness. Since their founding, they have grown exponentially. Their mission is focused on making the maximum positive effort for their community to provide affordable housing with pride of ownership and to end homelessness nationwide. Prosperity Housing Solutions advocates for the right of every individual to have clean and safe housing. Their donors, founding members, and board members provide the momentum that helps them affect change.
Ms. Elston previously served in the education field. During her 45 years of service in the Compton Unified School District (CUSD) as a teacher, counselor and psychologist, Ms. Elston, while teaching 5th grade in 1962, supervised a student teacher from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), after teaching only one year, herself. She traveled around the world in 1972, stopping a few days in Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Nepal, and Turkey, but spending eight weeks in India, traveling the depth and breadth of the country in order to garner sufficient knowledge to develop units of study for students K-12. While in India, she had an audience with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and visited the homes of individuals from the various castes in the Hindu religion as well as those from the other major religions in India (Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Christianity). Ms. Elston served on the committee that created the first collective bargaining agreement in CUSD in 1975, years of as well as designed and executed an innovative multi-subject program teaching fourth, fifth and six graders from 1976 through 1979 that improved student performance significantly. As a counselor, she supervised a student intern studying to be an elementary counselor, also, at CSULB. Ms. Elston served two terms on the California Teachers Association State (CTA) Representative Council, representing the Compton Education Association (CEA) and both organizations at the 1976 National Education Association (NEA) National Convention.
Jean obtained a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Kansas in 1960 and a M.S. in Counselor Education from the University of Southern California in 1969. She is affiliated with C.T.A., C.E.A., and N.E.A. Jean has one child, Toree. In her spare time, Jean enjoys painting, playing bridge, tennis, and travel.
“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” - Mother Teresa
For further information, contact www.phshh.com. Donations to this vital cause can be made directly to the aforementioned website. Please view the following YouTube link about Prosperity Housing Solutions: https://youtu.be/ovT9bOS7U9M.
About Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide
Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide highlights the professional lives of individuals from every significant field or industry including business, medicine, law, education, art, government and entertainment. Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide is both an online and hardcover publication where we provide our members’ current and pertinent business information. It is also a biographical information source for thousands of researchers, journalists, librarians and executive search firms throughout the world. Our goal is to ensure that our members receive all of the networking, exposure and recognition capabilities to potentially increase their business.
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