Our Mission
The mission of Haven Homes of Detroit is to empower women to heal from the trauma of trafficking and exploitation by providing safe housing, creating supportive communities, removing barriers to resources, and equipping them with the skills they need to reclaim their lives and create a brighter future.
Our Core Values
Board of Directors
Sean Weakley
President
Patricia Wells
Member
Tameka Ward
Treasurer
Ryan Nguyen Voyles
Member
Kristen Detweiler Short
Secretary
Danielle Frawley
Member
Tameka is an accountant with over 20 years’ experience in various industries including non-profit, internal audit, property management, public accounting, automotive financial services, banking, and manufacturing. She currently serves as the Financial Controller for the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, which is a Metro Detroit non-profit that operates homeless shelters, drug treatment facilities, permanent housing facilities, and food banks in the area. Tameka starting working in the Non-Proft world as her desire to have her professional work make a positive mark on the community grew. In addition to her work, Tameka enjoys giving back to the community. She has sat on several non-profit boards including the Avengers Youth Mentoring Organization, NABA, Inc in which she currently serves as the Detroit Chapter Treasurer. During her spare time Tameka enjoys travelling, spending time with family and friends and playing trivia. She is also a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Patricia is a Family Nurse Practitioner and self-proclaimed philanthropist. She has worked with several nonprofits that support health, nurse practitioners, and community, including the Bagley Community Council and Haven Homes of Detroit. Currently, she serves on the board of directors for both organizations to help improve neighborhoods and restore women's dignity. When she's not busy helping others, Patricia enjoys escaping with a good book, chemical free gardening, and running.
Kristen is Family Nurse Practitioner by training and currently works in Sales Strategy and Innovations for an international oncology pharmaceuticals company. Prior to moving into the Oncology Pharmaceutical Industry, Kristen has always worked with oncology patients as a nurse on a bone marrow transplant unit, the pediatric intensive care unit, and as a Nurse Practitioner taking care of patients with Multiple Myeloma Patients. In 2014, she learned about a running ministry at her church, Love Runs, and began running marathons and learning about Human Trafficking in the metro-Detroit area. When she’s not working at her day job or on Haven Homes of Detroit, she loves spending time with her family including her 3 children. Her time is spent doing a lot of activities with her children, trying to travel to all 50 states, and Bee Keeping with her daughter.
Sean is an experienced Retail Director at Home Depot who has received his B.Ed from Central Michigan and Executive Business Management Certificate from Vanderbilt University. He has worked at Home Depot for 16 years, starting as an overnight freight associate in 2007 and taking different roles in the company until now, where he is the District Manager for eleven stores from West Detroit to Lansing. Sean is married with 3 kids, and him and his wife enjoy being outdoors and spending time together as a family. He’s involved with a lot of youth sports as a spectator or coach, and loves being involved in his family’s hobbies and interests.
Ryan currently works in vehicle systems engineering utilizing the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering she achieved from the University of Michigan. She has held various roles within the automotive industry, from supplier to OEM, gaining experience with project management, strategic planning, and process improvement. She hopes to use her critical thinking and problem-solving skills to help enable survivors to reach their potential and see their true value through the support of Haven Homes. In her spare time, Ryan enjoys playing competitive volleyball, golfing with her husband, trying new recipes, and exploring on hiking trips in the mountains
Danielle developed her love for credit unions during college and quickly realized this was her home. She currently serves as chief growth officer at Community Financial Credit Union. She leads the teams' investment and insurance team, experience operations team, and retail areas/branch network, including the contact center and their "beta branch," referred to as the Playground. She leverages her experience from her past role as EVP/Chief Experience Officer of Fort Community Credit Union (FCCU), where she was responsible for driving the member experience through all facets of retail, digital experience, marketing, strategy, support, and member engagement. Before that, Danielle was Chief Lending Officer at FCCU, where she led and served the commercial, mortgage, consumer, indirect, loan servicing, and collection teams. Danielle’s additional past roles include Vice President of Marketing, and Chief Retail Officer, at Fort Community Credit Union. She has previously worked at Filene Research Institute and was the Director of Innovation at Blackhawk Community Credit Union. Danielle holds a B.B.A. degree in International Business and a minor in Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She holds the Credit Union Strategic Marketing Executive Designation (CSME), is a 2011 graduate of CUNA Management School (CCUE), a 2013 Government Affairs Conference Crasher, a 2013 Big Bright Minds Crasher, was designated a Credit Union Development Educator (CUDE) in September 2014 and was honored as a 2016 CUNA Rock Star. Danielle was also a part of the Filene i3 Class of 2015 and worked with fellow credit union executives on innovative projects such as Bank on Family. Danielle’s boundless energy extends to her personal life, where she loves running (recently completing the Credit Union Cherry Blossom 15k), reading, traveling, hiking, and boating.
Meet Our Leadership Team
Beth graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University with a bachelor in Intercultural Studies and Recreation Management. During her time at collage she traveled all over the world and spent time living with the marginalized and working to better their conditions. Beth spent time in India working with the women in what they call "the red light district". This work really fueled her passion to continue this work wherever she lives. Over the past 7 years, Beth has served on a street team with a local non-profit organization (All Worthy of Love) which reaches out to both men and women enslaved by street-prostitution. While serving with All Worthy of Love, Beth recognized a huge need for safe housing for women coming out of a rehab/detox program. Many times Beth has helped a woman get into a rehab program, but once the woman had finished the program she had no safe place to return to or a positive support system to help keep her off the street. Outside of work, Beth and her husband are foster parents. They have been foster parents for five years. Beth and her family love to be outdoors, camping and hiking. Apart from her family, Beth loves to grow vegetables and flowers.
Alice Jay serves as a Case Manager and Victim Advocate for trafficking survivors with a Detroit-based organization and the 36th District Court. Alice is a survivor of child abduction, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation. She has 18 years of recovery, and is a graduate from the House of Metamorphosis, a 2 year behavioral modification program. After graduatation, she began working as a recovery coach and House Manager for a women's residential recovery program for drug treatment. She also became a Certified Nurse’s Assistant 2008- 2015 and managed end-of-life care and direct care for the critically ill. Alice Johnson is the Author of two books, Out of The Darkness (A Survivor's Story). Who Am I Now? (workshop) series, focuses on self-identification, healing, and redirection, written specifically for survivors of all ages. She is a speaker and consultant on human trafficking. She is the Founder of Sister Survivors and The GateWay survivor national connection. She is on several task force and advisory boards. She is a fellow of the Human Trafficking Leadership Academy Office of Trafficking in Person.
Emily received her MSW from Wayne State in 2018 and has been studying human trafficking and working with survivors and at-risk women since her practicum for her undergraduate degree. She has worked as a Youth Specialist at Common Ground and more recently as a Program Coordinator for Michigan Abolitionist Project/Vista Maria over the last 4 years. Emily's hobbies include caring for and adding to her succulent collection, listening to music and attending concerts with her friends, and traveling to new places to explore different cultures and food.
Aaron is the owner and General Contractor for his business, Axe and Hammer Home Designs and Remodeling. He has been flipping homes in the metro-Detroit area for 3 years and loves the satisfaction of seeing the improvements he can make to a house to provide a home for a family. Prior to this job, he has always worked in the human services field with children, disabled adults, and also a strength and conditioning coach. When he’s not working, he enjoys time with his family including his wife, 3 kids, and 1 dog. He spends a lot of time participating and supporting his kids in different activities and is loves finding new places to eat and traveling.
Meet Our
Co-Founders
Aaron has an interdisciplinary degree with concentrations in education, psychology, and business. He worked at a Children's Home as a Program Director in Indiana. After moving, he began working with disabled adults as a program coordinator placing them in community vocational settings. He then went on to pursue his Masters in Kinesiology and worked as a collegiate strength and conditioning coach for 10 years. Due to changes at home, Aaron stepped away from strength and conditioning and started his renovation and home design business, Axe & Hammer. Now, as the Executive Director of HHD, he is using all of these jobs and experiences daily between renovating our Haven Home, working with community and government services, and building relationships.
Kristen has her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and has worked at Mayo Clinic in oncology and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She earned her Masters in Science as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2007. When they moved to Michigan, she worked at the University of Michigan's Cancer Center. In 2014, her job took an unexpected turn when she left clinical practice and worked as a clinical nurse educator for a pharmaceutical company. After different jobs within the company, she worked for 3 years as the Director for sales strategy, communications, and innovation. In 2024, Kristen had the opportunity to move to a non-profit organization supporting oncology clinics across the US as the Director of Program Development and Strategy. She loves her job now: all day everyday she takes complex ideas and figures out how to make them come to life and create communications about them. Not only has she found a passion, the experience has been so helpful as she and Aaron launched Haven Homes of Detroit. She continued to volunteer as a Nurse Practitioner until COVID at a Detroit clinic for uninsured women.
