Meet Team Avidity
Kristin Stablein, Executive Director
Kristin is an alumna of Nova Southeastern University, where she earned her Master’s in Counseling and Guidance. She is also a proud veteran of the United States Navy, serving 8 years as a Hospital Corpsman and In-Flight Medical Tech. Avidity was created and developed under Kristin’s leadership after she spent the past nine years as the Director of Child Welfare for Chrysalis Health, a community-based mental health agency. When it was decided to separate Chrysalis' child welfare programs and offer them as a not-for-profit, Kristin spearheaded the effort to create Avidity and has since served as its Executive Director.
Avidity now operates group homes and coordinates placements for adolescents in foster care, and specializes in the care of youth who are deemed difficult to place due to their behaviors. Through Kristin's leadership and dedication to providing strength-based, gender-responsive programming, the pain-based behaviors exhibited are acknowledged as
coping mechanisms and responses to the traumas they have endured throughout their lives. She is committed to
educating and working with communities to better meet the needs of children and adolescents by creating and
offering programs that build their capacities for strong, stable futures.
Avidity now operates group homes and coordinates placements for adolescents in foster care, and specializes in the care of youth who are deemed difficult to place due to their behaviors. Through Kristin's leadership and dedication to providing strength-based, gender-responsive programming, the pain-based behaviors exhibited are acknowledged as
coping mechanisms and responses to the traumas they have endured throughout their lives. She is committed to
educating and working with communities to better meet the needs of children and adolescents by creating and
offering programs that build their capacities for strong, stable futures.
Gail Daley-Robinson, Foster Care Coordinator
As Foster Care Coordinator, Gail oversees the day-to-day functioning of all Avidity programming. She is responsible for foster parent recruitment, training, and support- all crucial components of the fostering process. Gail also monitors and supervises all foster parents to ensure that all youth are placed in loving, caring, and supportive homes. She believes foster care is a protective intervention designed to provide out-of-home placements to children living in abusive and neglectful home environments, and as a way to provide sage, stable environments while interventions can be put in place to make the ultimate goal, reunification, possible. Gail is a Certified Child Welfare Counselor and holds a Bachelor's degree in sociology and education, as well as a Master's in Business Administration.
Unique Herron, Safe Place Shelter Program Coordinator
Before moving to Florida eight years ago, Unique was born and raised in East Lansing, Michigan. As the oldest of eight siblings, she is a natural caregiver who brings her positivity and can-do attitude to her work as Program Coordinator for Safe Place, Avidity's shelter serving children of all ages, from newborns to 17-year-olds. She is committed to ensuring that Safe Place lives up to its name by providing a supportive, caring, and safe environment for children in immediate need of shelter. Working at Avidity initially as a Case Manager, within a year her passion and talent for leadership were recognized and she was promoted to Program Coordinator, overseeing the Case Managers assigned to the children in Safe Place's care. Unique is currently pursuing her Bachelor's degree in social work from Florida Atlantic University (Class of 2019), and plans to continue on to graduate studies in higher education.