building Bridges & Filling gaps
About Us
Who We Are
The B.E.R.E.A.D.Y Project stands for Behavioral Education & Responsive Emotional Awareness for Developing Youth. We are a Non-Profit Organization connecting local individuals and families with services to support and maintain their personal, emotional, physical, and address situational barriers.
Our amazing diverse community of advocates, alliance members, and volunteers are committed to helping youth and their families. We take our empathy, education, and experience and turn them into action. Think you would be a good fit? Get in touch for more information!
Executive Director- Judy Kobylarz-Dillard, CCHW
The wife and mother figure in a diverse family with six children blended from multi-cultural and socio-economic backgrounds; brought together by birth, adoption and marriage. From early on Judy has had a heart for helping those hurting whether it is rescuing
wild/abandoned animals or candy striping with elderly citizens. Coming from a small rural town in the Northwest Corner and raised with influence from and respect for those in the HealthCare Services field, combined with a family-focused home life, made her professional pursuits inevitably geared towards humanitarian jobs. Her experience over the past 20+ years includes direct care and management of DDS and DCF group homes, supporting and educating individuals seeking to improve their life choices with case guidance, planning, organizing events and most importantly advocating and bringing awareness to
benefit the underprivileged and misunderstood in her community. As a self-proclaimed “Domestic Engineer”, Judy finds joy in creative
problem solving while supporting the daily challenges of balancing
life with special needs children; strongly supported with a background in mental health/behavioral services and core belief of promoting independence & growth.
Clinical Director-Brandy Sharack, LCSW LADC
Brandy is a lifelong Litchfield county resident and has committed to serving the community that raised her since entering the mental health field in 2002. In her career, Brandy has had the pleasure of working with residents of this region in many different care settings, including outpatient, inpatient, emergency intervention, out and about in the community and in their homes. A biracial adult who was raised in Litchfield County, as well as a parent to two biracial children; Brandy recognizes the various ways the minority youth and families of Litchfield County can be educated and supported. This broad understanding of mental health resources and life in the region has provided her with an awareness of the gaps that have been created by the growth and change of the Greater Torrington area over the decades. This awareness and clinical mental health expertise fueled by the passion and dreams of Judith Kobylarz-Dillard is what brought Brandy to The Be Ready Project.