Bettsie Wild

Bettsie Wild is a family mediator who specializing in co-parenting mediations, helping the parents focus on the children, while navigating through the divorce process. Bettsie is also a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children and a trained Child Custody Investigator. She is a trained facilitator for both "Children in the Middle" & "After the Storm" programs that provide support and skills for co-parenting & to children living the reality of divorce. Bettsie focuses her practice on helping to remember the kids & finding an outcome everyone can live with.At work and at home, Bettsie’s life is focused on children. She has four children of her own, ages 24, 18, 11 & 8. It was her youngest daughter, Lena, who inspired Bettsie to found the charity, Dare to Care, which feeds children-in-need in community schools. The program started five years ago when Lena, then a first grader, had a friend who was coming to school every day hungry, and without food or money to purchase a hot lunch. In approaching the school regarding the little girl’s dilemma, the Wild’s learned there were many children who for different reasons, who were going hungry every day and needed help. These are children who fall through the cracks and do not receive benefit of the federal free and reduced meal program. Many are abused and neglected. That year, the the Wild family fed 35 children in two neighborhood schools – and has grown to become an official 501(c)(3) and is feeding over 2,000 children. It is their dream to have the program go nation-wide, and help feed the over 14 million hungry children in the US who need benefit of such a program. Bettsie & her daughter Lena are in California raising awareness and putting the program into our schools to jump start the program going national.Through Dare to Care, Bettsie puts on school assemblies talking to students about kindness and tolerance – and the importance in not judging others because they are different.