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Lucy and Boyd Eustace
Founders
In 1989, Lucy and Boyd moved from Texas to Baltimore, where Boyd worked with developmentally disabled adults and attended graduate school. Once in Baltimore, Lucy was a house manager and worked at a day program for intellectually disabled individuals. After graduate school, Boyd worked with the seriously mentally ill in East Baltimore and in an emergency room, and then as a therapist and clinical supervisor in a hospital-based mental health clinic in West Baltimore. He also did school-based volunteer work and community advocacy during this time. He now sees patients in private practice and owns and manages LB Counseling Group in Baltimore City.
When her youngest child was in elementary school, Lucy closed her daycare program and went back to college to fulfill her dream of becoming a schoolteacher, eventually earning her master’s degree in education from Towson University. “I was drawn to becoming a teacher from an early age because of teachers I had growing up who made learning fun,” she says. She landed a job at an elementary/middle school in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of Baltimore city 16 years ago and never left.
“I love seeing where students start at the first of the year, and how much they grow and learn throughout the year,” she says, adding that she also enjoys having fun with the kids and building relationships with them and their families. It is rewarding to have students that I taught as young children come back and visit me on break from high school or college and come to know generations of families that make up the community. I'm inspired by the belief that my calling is to help children unlock their unlimited potential while experiencing a sense of community and nurturing."