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Board of Directors

Melissa Sepeda, MSSW

Ryan Gisclair, CFP, ChSNP

Ryan Gisclair, CFP, ChSNP

FOUNDER, BOARD CHAIR

Melissa Sepeda is a former trauma therapist and the former owner of Daybreak Therapy Solutions in Denham Springs. After providing mental health services for 20 years, she founded The Daybreak Foundation to bridge the gaps that were evident to her in mental health care. 

Ryan Gisclair, CFP, ChSNP

Ryan Gisclair, CFP, ChSNP

Ryan Gisclair, CFP, ChSNP

BOARD TREASURER

Ryan Gisclair is a CFP and ChSNP providing financial services to people in transition due to divorce, death, retirement, and families with special needs at Capital South Wealth Management, LLC. 

Morgan Gore

Ryan Gisclair, CFP, ChSNP

Dr. Eliana Pizarro, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA

BOARD SECRETARY

Morgan Gore is a caseworker with the Department of Children and Families assessing families' needs and linking them with appropriate resources.

Dr. Eliana Pizarro, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA

Dr. Eliana Pizarro, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA

Dr. Eliana Pizarro, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA

BOARD MEMBER

Dr. Eliana Pizarro is a PhD, BCBA-D, and LBA offering behavioral consultation services in Louisiana. 

Jessica Clark, BCBA, LSSP, LBA, NCSP

Dr. Eliana Pizarro, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA

Jessica Clark, BCBA, LSSP, LBA, NCSP

BOARD SECRETARY

Jessica Clark is a LBA, LSSP, and BCBA and  currently serving in a leadership capacity at the Center for Academic and Behavioral Support with Livingston Parish Public Schools, and as a consultant with Daybreak Therapy Solutions in Denham Springs.

Dr. Abdul Majid Khan

Dr. Eliana Pizarro, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA

Jessica Clark, BCBA, LSSP, LBA, NCSP

BOARD MEMBER

Dr. Majid Khan is the Medical Director and treating psychiatrist at Regions Hospital and Elemental Health Intensive Outpatient Program and offers comprehensive psychiatric treatment to adults in the greater Baton Rouge area.

Dr. Tatiana Patel

Dr. Reuben Battley

Dr. Reuben Battley

BOARD MEMBER

Dr. Tatiana Patel is an Infection Disease Physician and is passionate about serving the community in which she and her family live. 

Dr. Reuben Battley

Dr. Reuben Battley

Dr. Reuben Battley

BOARD MEMBER

Dr. Reuben Battley is an Adolescent Medicine Physician with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. 

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