Dr. Kathy Koch

Founder and President Celebrate Kids, Inc.

An internationally celebrated speaker, Dr. Koch conducts workshops, seminars and other events, influencing millions of parents, teachers and children each year on subjects related to helping children realize their potential. Her practical, results-oriented concepts draw enthusiastic raves from audiences, who leave her seminars armed with tools to help increase success in school and build healthy relationships.

Denice Crawford

4A Director of Prevention Services

Denice oversees the day-to-day implementation, scheduling, and training for our federally-funded abstinence education program, the Authentic Answers Abstinence Alliance (4A). This program, based at Fort Hood in Killeen, focuses on the unique needs of teens growing up in the military environment, as well as helping their peers, parents, and educators understand their special emotional needs.

Supervising both staff and contract employees, Denice makes sure that the teens, parents, and educators in Bell County receive quality, medically-accurate, life-changing messages that abstinence until marriage is the healthiest choice for all. She develops materials pertaining to our abstinence program for teachers and students and teaches educators, parents, and middle school students as part of the program.

Rolando Ford

4A Parent Educator

Rolando teaches in our 10-hour abstinence-until-marriage classroom program by coordinating and conducting meetings for the parent support group in Killeen. He also assists the guest speakers, when assigned, as they arrive to the Killeen area and provides assistance to the Fort Worth staff when they are in the Killeen area.

Before retiring, he spent 23 years serving in the United States Army with tours in Korea, Germany, Thailand, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq. His love for his family, his country, and the military kids in Killeen are evident in all that he does in our 4A program.

Rachelle Riley

Education Coordinator

Rachelle teaches in our 10-hour abstinence-until-marriage classroom program. She specializes in helping students who have already engaged in some high-risk behaviors. She helps their parents and educators understand their situations and how to help them change. Rachelle also coordinates special speakers and programs for our abstinence program.

Rachelle has always enjoyed volunteer work in her community. Rachelle has volunteered as a Volunteer Certified Chaplain at the Women’s Prison in Gatesville, Texas, and as a Peer Counselor at The Hope Pregnancy Center in Killeen Texas. Presently, she is very active in her local church in teaching a Discipleship Program.

Maya Smith

4A Program Instructor

Maya is a teacher in our 10-hour abstinence-until-marriage classroom program.  Her background includes 2 years as a Family Therapist for Social Work Services with family violence cases.

Maya also started a mentoring program for college students called Issues. The older students work with and educate the younger students on decision making and good choices to help keep them safe and on target at college.

Before coming to work in our 4A program, Maya volunteered for the military community and at the schools her daughters attended.