Goals & Team

Montgomery County Recreation's Youth Development Team is generating an enhanced and vibrant approach to service delivery that reaches out to all young people.
Our Goals:
We use recreation to ensure young people are productive, healthy, and connected during out-of-school time. Our positive youth development strategies include opportunities, programs, and services which emphasize health and wellness, youth leadership and social equity, workforce development, and connection to caring adult role models. The Recreation Department is built on a foundation for serving youth, and we are committed to building on this tradition.
It is our aim to ensure the Recreation Department is a place where young people:
- Make friends and maintain healthy relationships
- Gain a sense of independence and rely less on adults
- Build teamwork skills and become more effective in groups
- Foster attributes important to being a members of family and community
- Perceive competence and believe they can be successful
- Acquire an interest in exploration and are eager to learn new things
- Develop a sense of responsibility and learn to be accountable
- Enhance their affinity for nature and attraction toward the outdoors
- Grow confidence and try to solve problems on their own
- Establish a connection and feel safe and welcomed in their environment
Our Team:
The Youth Development Team within the Department of Recreation has generated an enhanced and vibrant approach to service delivery that enables the mobilization of resources, thus casting a wider net and growing the number of young people who are productive, healthy, and connected. The Youth Development Team uses recreation as a means to improve outcomes and increase Developmental Assets for all young people. Positive youth development strategies include supports, opportunities, and services which emphasize health and wellness, youth leadership & social equity, connection to community, and connection to caring adult role models.

Marhonda Williams - Manager What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Elijah Davis - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Emily McDonell - Recreation Supervisor What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Jonathan Smink - Recreation Supervisor What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Shawn Alvarez - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Carla Ayala - Office Service Coordinator What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Malcolm Ayers - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Daniela Belmonte - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Nina Bersabal - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Carlos Castro - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Lyrisd Charles - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Carlos Falcon - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Chass Gallagher - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Josh Holt - Recreation Supervisor What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Robert Kiger - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Taschet Murphy - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Tiffany Nelson - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Walter Pegues, Jr. - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Esmeralda Rivera - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Reginald Sidbury - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Joel Singh - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
David Smith - Recreation Specialist What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |
Brianna Wertz - Recreation Coordinator What I like about my job: Hobbies: My Theme Song: |