Nina Jones has been at Bacon Street for nearly 3 years. In fact, if you’ve called Bacon Street in the past couple of years, there’s a good chance that you’ve spoken with her. In this time, she has moved from working as an Administrative Assistant to working as a Client Services Manager and the project lead for the Home First Williamsburg and Footprints Youth Collaborative Housing Program. Last month, she was promoted to Director of Operations, and now works hard every day to keep things running smoothly at Bacon Street. As a military wife, Nina and her family have lived everywhere from California to Alaska to Maine, and we are so happy that she has now landed here. Read More …

Allison Jarvis has been with Bacon Street ever since she interned with us over 6 years ago, and has touched the lives of many youth in our community in that time. As our Prevention Director, she works hard to provide youth and families with tools that promote mental health and empower youth to make healthy choices about substance use. Allison was driven to enter this work as both someone who had her own struggles as a young adult and as a mother of a young adult herself. A lover of cycling and the outdoors, if she’s not at Bacon Street there’s a good chance you’ll find her at the Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg. Read More …

Jonathan Jenkins is a clinician at Bacon Street who does both general and substance use counseling for youth and adults. He grew up in Williamsburg and received his training at William & Mary, where the Counseling program is part of the Education department in a nod to counseling’s origins in schools. Jonathan originally did his counseling residency with Bacon Street and we are happy that he has now returned to us. He sees clients in our Williamsburg and Newport News offices, as well as via telehealth. Read More …