Rev. Dale A. Young, D.Min, BCC, Director
Rev. Shirley L. Brown, M-Div, BCC, Senior Congregational Health Chaplain and Pastoral Care Educator
Lucy M. Eylerts, M-HSA, Program Administrator
Maria T. Martinez, MPH, Community Health Promoter
Cecilia Scoccimarra, Senior Secretary
Rev. Dale A. Young, D.Min, BCC
Director
Since 1997, Young has been the Director of Congregational Health. Young served as a hospital chaplain at Miami Children’s Hospital and later Baptist Hospital of Miami before developing the Congregational Health program. He is an ordained Lutheran clergy and a Board certified chaplain. He is a graduate of Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa (M-Div). He completed his clinical pastoral education residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Young served as President of the South Florida Chaplains Association (1992-1993).
As Congregational Health Director, he has developed and taught training workshops on the Congregational Health model. He also took the Congregational Health Bereavement Facilitator Training to Sri Lanka and India during the summers of 2005 and 2006 where he trained over 120 peer group grief facilitators.
The Health Foundation of South Florida named Young as one of three finalists in (the non-profit category) for the Concern Award 2006.
Chaplain Shirley L. Brown, M.Div., BCC
Senior Congregational Health Chaplain and Pastoral Care Educator
Brown serves as the Community Health Chaplain of Congregational Health. Her chaplaincy experience spans across hospitals, hospice and prison ministries providing emotional and spiritual support to patients, inmates, and bereaved families. She is a clinical member of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) and Board certified through the Association of Professional Chaplains (APC). As the senior congregational health chaplain and pastoral care educator she provides training and education for Congregational Health's Faith-Based Health Support Groups, Care Teams and Bereavement programs. She is also an adjunct professor of the New Birth Bible Institute and a life transition coach for congregational care ministry leaders in formation. Brown is the Robert W. Woodruff Scholar graduating in 1997 (magna cum laude) from the Emory University - Candler School of Theology, Atlanta, GA, and is presently pursuing a Doctorate in Ministry at Florida Center for Theological Studies in Health & Wellness for the New Millennium.
Lucy Eylerts, M.HSA
Program Administrator
Since 2003, Eylerts, program administrator, has been working with Congregational Health. She was born in Peru and resides in Miami since 2001.
In 1994, she received her bachelor degree in Business Administration from San Martin de Porres Private University in Lima.
In 1998, after several years working in the administrative area of diverse companies, she opened her own events and registration company and served important national and international organizations until she moved to Miami. In 2005, Eylerts received her Master’s degree in Health Services Administration from Barry University in Miami, Florida.
Maria T. Martinez, MPH
Community Health Promoter
Martinez, community health promoter, was born in Panama. Her work in Public Health began as an intern for the Office of Epidemiology & Disease Control at the Miami-Dade County Health Department in 2003, working for the Asthma Surveillance Program.
Martinez has worked in the areas of Environmental Health & Tobacco Prevention. She received her Master’s degree in Public Health and Bachelor’s in Science in Social Work from Florida International University.
Cecilia Scoccimarra
Senior Secretary
Scoccimarra, senior secretary, has been working for Congregational Health since 2007. She was born in Argentina and has been living in the United States since 1991.
Scoccimarra, graduated in 2000 from Florida International University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a certification in Latin American Studies. Always, having a heart for social issues, Scoccimarra, has been involved in non profit organizations since the year 2000.