Jean W.

Elston Recognized as a Professional of the Year for 2021 by

Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication

Long Beach, CA September 14, 2021 --(PR.com)-- Jean Elston of Long Beach, California has been
recognized as a Professional of the Year for 2021 by Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide for her
outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of nonprofit housing services.

About Jean W. Elston

Jean Elston is Acting President and Vice-President at Prosperity Housing Solutions, a nonprofit providing
housing for the homeless population in California. Ms. Elston has 4 years of experience. She collaborates
with nonprofits and other agencies to build tiny houses for the homeless. In 2018, seeing a need for an
energetic nonprofit organization, Prosperity Housing Solutions was formed to facilitate the
communication between government and business to find sensible and effective solutions to affordable
housing and homelessness. Since their founding, they have grown exponentially. Their mission is focused
on making the maximum positive effort for their community to provide affordable housing with pride of
ownership and to end homelessness nationwide. Prosperity Housing Solutions advocates for the right of
every individual to have clean and safe housing. Their donors, founding members, and board members
provide the momentum that helps them affect change.

Ms. Elston previously served in the education field. During her 45 years of service in the Compton
Unified School District (CUSD) as a teacher, counselor and psychologist, Ms. Elston, while teaching 5th
grade in 1962, supervised a student teacher from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), after
teaching only one year, herself. She traveled around the world in 1972, stopping a few days in Japan,
Thailand, Hong Kong, Nepal, and Turkey, but spending eight weeks in India, traveling the depth and
breadth of the country in order to garner sufficient knowledge to develop units of study for students K-12.
While in India, she had an audience with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and visited the homes of
individuals from the various castes in the Hindu religion as well as those from the other major religions in
India (Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism and Christianity). Ms. Elston served on the committee that
created the first collective bargaining agreement in CUSD in 1975, years of as well as designed and
executed an innovative multi-subject program teaching fourth, fifth and six graders from 1976 through
1979 that improved student performance significantly. As a counselor, she supervised a student intern
studying to be an elementary counselor, also, at CSULB. Ms. Elston served two terms on the California
Teachers Association State (CTA) Representative Council, representing the Compton Education
Association (CEA) and both organizations at the 1976 National Education Association (NEA) National
Convention.

Jean obtained a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Kansas in 1960 and a M.S. in
Counselor Education from the University of Southern California in 1969. She is affiliated with C.T.A.,
C.E.A., and N.E.A. Jean has one child, Toree. In her spare time, Jean enjoys painting, playing bridge,
tennis, and travel.

“We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being
unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy

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this kind of poverty.” - Mother Teresa

For further information, contact www.phshh.com. Donations to this vital cause can be made directly to
the aforementioned website. Please view the following YouTube link about Prosperity Housing
Solutions: https://youtu.be/ovT9bOS7U9M.

About Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide

Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide highlights the professional lives of individuals from every
significant field or industry including business, medicine, law, education, art, government and
entertainment. Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide is both an online and hardcover publication where
we provide our members’ current and pertinent business information. It is also a biographical information
source for thousands of researchers, journalists, librarians and executive search firms throughout the
world. Our goal is to ensure that our members receive all of the networking, exposure and recognition
capabilities to potentially increase their business.

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Contact Information:
Strathmore Worldwide
Susan Perrault
516-677-9696
Contact via Email
www.strathmoreworldwide.com
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