Cassie Weinstock has been working with teens for over 20 years. Her passion for teen empowerment began at her time at the JCC Ranch Camp where she spent 13 years as a camper and staff member. While studying Psychology at the University of Colorado, Cassie interned at the Juvenile Detention Center and started to realize that in order for teens to be successful, they needed to have a strong support network as well as tools to make good choices in their every day lives. Cassie’s passion grew to help provide what teens learned and experienced at camp in their every day setting.

Cassie worked at several different camps empowering teens to become support systems for each other and started teaching in a classroom setting for 9-12 graders. Cassie also took these skills to the gymnastics world where, in addition to skill building, she coached girls of all ages to be confident about their accomplishments and their bodies.

Her work with teens led to her obtaining a double masters degree in Social Work and Jewish Non-Profit Management from Washington University in St. Louis and Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, where she interned at Life Crisis Hotline as a suicide prevention counselor and St. Louis Hillel of Washington University as an outreach staff member.

After graduating, Cassie was the Program Director at Camp Ramah in California, she then became the Young Leadership Division Director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and then became a school Principal.

After hearing from parents about their teens needing life skills, tools to handle peer pressure, suicide prevention, and the ability to advocate for themselves, Cassie created P.I.E.S. in the Spring of 2015. Cassie has been around the country helping teens and young adults become strong, empowered support systems for one another.

Cassie is from Denver, Colorado and has been in Los Angeles for 11 years where she met her husband, Eitan and they have two adorable children.