The Elder Group requests your help: To all my colleagues, clients, and friends. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a foundation that has touched my heart. As many of you know, I’ve been working with challenged children in several states across America. It’s been my mission to do my part and help these splendid youths achieve their potential.
I was lucky to be able to mentor several of the young people in the TotalChild® program and am very impressed with their splendid work.
My request is that you take a look at all they provide and let’s all help them with whatever you can give so we all can help these splendid young people and their families know that there are people in the world who say “YES I CARE”! Let’s all do our part and make a difference for them.
In gratitude,
Andrew J. Elder, President & CEO
The Elder Group, LLC
877-687-5867 Office
888-364-8949 Fax
andy@eldergroupusa.com
www.eldergroupusa.com
Supporting Tomorrow’s Workforce Today: Four Oaks TotalChild® Workforce
Four Oaks is committed to ensuring the long-term success of our children and families. Our TotalChild® approach enables us to create a continuum of care that allows us to work toward achieving positive short and long-term outcomes for children and their families.
With this philosophy in mind, we created TotalChild® Workforce, our workforce development program that supports youth through high school graduation, into and through post-secondary training or education, and into a stable job and self-sufficiency by age 26.
TotalChild® Workforce addresses career readiness and placement skills including higher education and training, internships, job shadowing, and more. By partnering with community organizations and companies, we are able to provide real-life job shadowing and internship experiences, as well as community mentors that provide guidance for TotalChild® youth. By offering a glimpse into what industries are available and how successful professionals have reached their professional goals, we can inspire, encourage, and support our participants to reach their professional goals.
To see the impact of TotalChild® Workforce, check out this recent news article on the mentorship component of the program and Workforce participant Daysha Gibson: https://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/community/four-oaks-cedar-rapids-youth-mentorship-total-child-workforce-program-20210211.
The Elder Group requests your help:
To all my colleagues, clients, and friends. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a foundation that has touched my heart. As many of you know, I’ve been working with challenged children in several states across America. It’s been my mission to do my part and help these splendid youths achieve their potential.
The Four Oaks Foundation has thoroughly impressed me. Their staff is committed to these youths in such a meaningful way that it touched my heart. Clearly, this foundation is helping these young people matter in so many ways.
My request is that you take a look at all they provide and let’s all help them with whatever you can give so we all can help these splendid young people and their families know that there are people in the world who say “YES I CARE”! Let’s all do our part and make a difference for them.
In gratitude,
Andrew J. Elder, President & CEO
The Elder Group, LLC
877-687-5867 Office
888-364-8949 Fax
andy@eldergroupusa.com
www.eldergroupusa.com
Achieving Success: The Jane Boyd Achievement Academy
One of the many ways Four Oaks assures success for kids and families is by partnering with our two affiliate organizations, Jane Boyd and the Affordable Housing Network. These partners enable us to expand the services we provide in both depth and geography. Together, Four Oaks, Jane Boyd, and the Affordable Housing Network make up the Four Oaks Family of Agencies.
Guided by Four Oaks’ TotalChild® approach, Jane Boyd’s services are family-centered and focused on enhancing the academic, emotional, and social well-being of children and families with programs focused on developing successful and productive adults.
Four Oaks’ TotalChild® approach addresses the key risk and protective factors across four domains including childhood basic needs, education & work, family, and community. The Jane Boyd Achievement Academy, which provides after-school programming during the school year and summer programming for children living in the Cedar Rapids Community School District, works to meet children’s basic childhood and educational needs.
Children enrolled in the Achievement Academy develop positive self-concepts, and social and problem-solving skills through a variety of programming including: Reading and Literacy Programs, Science Exploration, Social and Recreational Activities, Enrichment Activities through community partners, Field Trips “The Achievement Academy saved my boys. They related to the staff there and felt comfortable with them,” A mother of Achievement Academy youth said. “I don’t know what I would do without Jane Boyd. It is a permeant fixture in my life.”
To learn more about the Jane Boyd Achievement Academy visit here: https://www.janeboyd.org/programs/achievement-academy.
![]() The Elder Group requests your help: To all my colleagues, clients, and friends. It’s my pleasure to introduce you to a foundation that has touched my heart. As many of you know, I’ve been working with challenged children in several states across America. It’s been my mission to do my part and help these splendid youths achieve their potential. The Four Oaks Foundation has thoroughly impressed me. Their staff is committed to these youths in such a meaningful way that it touched my heart. Clearly, this foundation is helping these young people matter in so many ways. My request is that you take a look at all they provide and let’s all help them with whatever you can give so we all can help these splendid young people and their families know that there are people in the world who say “YES I CARE”! Let’s all do our part and make a difference for them. In gratitude, ![]() Andrew J. Elder, President & CEO From a home in rural Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1973, Four Oaks has grown to become one of Iowa’s strongest organizations devoted to helping children and families succeed through a powerful network of programs and services that are rooted in the family. 48 years later, our mission is still the same, “To assure children become successful adults.” In 2020, Four Oaks helped ensure the success of over 27,000 children and families across the state of Iowa. Our holistic care model, TotalChild®, has transformed the organization into a high-performance, outcome-based culture. Four Oaks’ TotalChild® approach addresses the key risk and protective factors across four domains including childhood basic needs, education & work, family, and community. Our objective is to achieve positive short and long-term outcomes for children and their families facing multiple challenges including homelessness, lack of parenting skills, poverty, under or unemployment, and unstable housing. We follow the child and their families for many years to help support long-term success. When a family comes to us through TotalChild®, they are connected with a Success Manager that helps connect them to resources and services to support them through their barriers to success. Our powerful network of services and programs enables us to create a continuum of care that holistically addresses the needs of children and families, whatever they may be. To learn more about Four Oaks and our TotalChild® approach, please visit fouroaks.org/our-story/total-child or check out our FY20 Annual Report at fouroaks.org/our-story/annual-report-FY20. |
Our latest teleconference replay is now available. Thank you so much for those of you who could attend our teleconference. In case you missed it please go to our website where you can listen to the replay.
As you are listening, feel free to send any questions or comments to Kathy@eldergroupusa.com and we will forward them to our panelists.
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Teleconference Details:
Monday, May 18, at 4:00 PM EST
Call-in Number: 267-930-4000 PinCode: 807 071 #
Continuing with the Reset 2020 Theme:
Dr. Andrew Rubman will share why NOW is the time for “the doctor within you” to make a “house call.” As a naturopathic physician, he helps patients access their hidden wisdom and heal holistically
Our topics:
- Reset 2020 – accessing the innate wisdom within to live your best life
- Why wellness is the best offense to create ease instead of disease
- Live long and live well by integrating spirit soul mind and body practices into your daily routine
- Nature’s way or the highway
This teleconference is sponsored by Capital Grille Restaurant

Our Speakers:
Andrew L. Rubman, ND. is a 1982 graduate of NUNM and Medical Director of the Southbury Clinic for Traditional Medicines in Southbury, Connecticut. He is a founder and lifetime member of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, a Member of the Board of Medical Examiners of the Naturopathic Endocrine Society, and a member of the Naturopathic Gastroenterology Society. He has been active in national television, radio, and press and with organizations advocating the evolution of a responsible medical continuum among all licensed physicians with the unrestricted practice for naturopathic physicians.
He has served as an advisor and lecturer for the White House Commission for Complementary and Alternative Medical Policy and medical schools across the United States. He is a past Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at many Naturopathic Medical Colleges and has served as the content provider in Naturopathic Medicine for the North American Menopause Society and the Natural Standard now called Natural Medicines.
Dr. Rubman is a contributing medical editor for Bottom Line’s Daily Health News and has multiple Blogs, videos, and over 200 articles in print. He continues to consult with individuals, law firms, and business entities internationally including in China where he helped establish Monk Fruit Inc. the largest producer of this material in the world, working directly with the FDA to obtain GRAS status.
Dr. Frank Salvatore: Skylands Urology
Dr. Salvatore graduated magna cum laude from St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY, and then received his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC. He then completed his residency in urology at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 1996 he founded Skylands Urology Group, PA, and was a founding board member of the Specialty Surgery Center in Sparta, NJ. Dr. Salvatore is a member of multiple professional societies and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He also has multiple publications regarding nephrolithiasis.
Andrew Elder: President & CEO, The Elder Group, LLC
For 20 years Mr. Elder has helped countless companies and their CEO’s succeed. “Developing the Elder Group was clearly a “niche” business idea”.
Throughout his travels across the country, Andy heard the same story over and over again. “All my CEO colleagues and friends were telling me they were too busy running their companies, it kept them from being in the new business development arenas which they all missed”. It’s how most of them started their businesses”. “So, I thought, why not put a company together that introduces CEO’s to other CEO’s where there is a natural fit”?
Henceforth, the Elder Group was born. Today The Elder Group has company access to many hundreds of CEO’s from all around the globe. Totaling in the hundreds of billions of dollars in company earnings. Andy subscribes to two simple rules”. “Keep it simple” and The Elder Group never works with people they don’t care for”! What’s the point?