RBR SOURCE Coordinator Honored

Red Bank Regional’s (RBR) Suzanne Keller was recently honored by the Community Affairs and Resource Center (CARC) with its Partner in Youth Development Award for her work as the school’s SOURCE coordinator. 

SOURCE is RBR’s school-based youth services program. It provides students with a range of services from quality mental health counseling to learning support initiatives. CARC, formerly the Hispanic Affairs & Resource Center, is a non-profit social services organization operating in Asbury Park, Freehold and Red Bank.

Keller, of Manalapan, joined the SOURCE in 2006 as a clinician after obtaining her masters in social work following a successful career in marketing. She was promoted to the SOURCE coordinator in 2010.

Keller is responsible for maintaining the SOURCE’s state grants and overseeing all special programs. She also maintains relationships with the community including government agencies and area churches where she helps coordinate other programs such as SAT prep and student college visitations. 

She has expanded RBR’s reach in the community by organizing a Community Advisory Board which includes over 40 different agencies and community businesses.

Her continued community outreach has involved the introduction of new programs to the school such as TOP (Teen Outreach Program,) a character building program in affiliation with Central Jersey Family Heath Consortium.

A major component of her job has been perennial fundraising for several foundations. 

Under The SOURCE Foundation, she organizes and runs several signature events. She enables RBR’s Latino students to achieve their dream of college by administering and fundraising for the Latino Scholarship Foundation. She also sits on a community mentor board to help RBR scholarship students succeed in college.

For more, read the RBR blog.