Admissions
Jacqueline Fairbanks
Admissions Director
Jacqueline earned a Bachelor degree from Brigham Young University in Marriage, Family, and Human Development. She has been employed at New Haven since 2005 when she began working as a residential staff member. Since that time she has seen many special and miraculous things take place. Jacqueline is passionate about her work and strongly believes in New Haven's philosophy and treatment approach. She enjoys working with families and helping them to feel a sense of hope in knowing their daughter and family can heal.
Jacqueline grew up in Colorado, but has lived in Massachusetts and California. She has spent a lot of time in different areas in Mexico where many of her family members live. Her experiences of visiting and spending time in Mexico throughout her life, volunteering in a diversity club, as a peer counselor, as a leader in a volunteer organization for adolescent youth and helping to teach orphans and build an orphanage in Ensenada, Mexico have all significantly contributed to her love of different cultures, meeting new people, and serving and helping others.
Jacqueline enjoys traveling(especially if there is a beach nearby), working out, going to movies, kayaking, taking walks with her husband, and spending time with her family.
Irene Kotter
Admissions Counselor
While growing up, Irene had the opportunity to experience life in various locations from Glennallen, Alaska to Silver Springs, Maryland. Her father's employment moved her across the nation which offered her many opportunities to meet a lot of wonderful and interesting people from a variety of backgrounds. Her first experience working in an educational environment began in 1998 with the San Diego City Schools Administrative Department working for Special Education Early Childhood. She later explored her creativity and earned a Cosmetology License in Utah (she loves to do hair for the girls at New Haven and has found this to be a great way to bond with them). Irene also learned that she has a great passion for connecting family members when she spent a summer volunteering on Ellis Island in New York. Her volunteer work consisted of assisting families as they searched for their ancestors through ship manifests. The manifests identified immigrants coming to the United States dating back to 1892. She continues to find genealogical research very rewarding.
Irene began working as a Health Care Assistant for New Haven in May of 2004. She then became the Lead Supervisor for the Rosa Parks House beginning in July of 2006. Irene learned countless lessons from parents and daughters during her three years as Lead and is grateful for the many meaningful relationships she still enjoys. Over the years she developed a deep, abiding love for New Haven families. Irene feels that the most powerful ways to influence others are through building honest, empathetic, loving and respectful relationships. Irene started working at New Haven because she naturally enjoys being with and listening to people; she stayed because she now knows that families experience positive, lasting change.
Irene will finish her degree in Social Work in May 2010. When she's not working or going to school Irene loves to listen to musicians jam to most genres, however you will most often find her soaking up Jazz or Blues tunes at any local venue. She also really enjoys makeup artistry, being active in the beautiful outdoors, spending time with her family, singing and joking with her siblings, and playing games with her nieces and nephews.
Ari Terry
Admissions Counselor
Ari attended Brigham Young University, where she graduated with a degree in public relations. She is originally from Iowa but has been here in Utah for seven years now. Before coming to New Haven, Ari worked on an admissions team with a local college. She was drawn to New Haven because of the strong program that focuses on strengthening girls and bringing families together. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with her husband, reading, skiing, and traveling.
