Bradburn, Beverly Jean

1945 - 2017  (72 years)

• Name	Bradburn, Beverly Jean  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Born	21 Jun 1945	Guilford County, North Carolina, USA   [2, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Bev Bradburn
  Died	20 Sep 2017	Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, United States of America   [4, 7]
  Buried	Crest Lawn Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA   [4, 7]
  Person ID	I11928	Our Family
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

  Family	Stern, Edwin Hersh,   b. 14 Feb 1936, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA ,   d. 7 Mar 1996, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, USA  (Age 60 years)
  Married	19 Apr 1980
  Children	1. Stern, Megan
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024
  Family ID	F9294	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Daughter of decorated Air Force Pilot Colonel Gordon F. Bradburn and Romayne Bradburn (née McLaughlin), along with siblings Barbara and Bruce, never stayed in any one place for more than a few years of her childhood. After moving to Atlanta in 1969, Bev was named head counselor at the Galloway School, and then began work at the child advocacy organization Families First as director of education and training services. During her 23 years at Families First, she pioneered an innovative family counseling approach to recognize and tackle the adverse effects of divorce on children. She developed the "Children Cope with Divorce" seminar for divorcing parents, which was featured by news outlets across the country, including The New York Times, CNN, The Today Show, and 20/20, and which became legally mandated for divorcing parents in Cobb County, Georgia. Bev traveled nationally to train educators, and the program quickly spread to other jurisdictions; it was eventually adopted in 39 states, reaching well over one million parents nationwide. She later served for a decade as the executive director of DeKalb County Superior Court's Dispute Resolution Center, using mediation to help clashing parents find common ground and do what was best for their kids. She opened her private counseling and mediation practice in 2008. While teaching a continuing education seminar at the UUCA, she met Edwin H. Stern. They married in 1980 and had one daughter, Megan. Edwin passed away in 1996.

  
  

• Sources

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