Friday, October 9, 2015

The TOV Center Welcomes Billy Stout


We welcome Billy Stout to our TOV Center team.  Billy joins the team as an Advisory Director and Communications Coordinator. He is an achievement-oriented professional who brings his entrepreneurial drive and competent expertise from a diversified background of professional endeavors, including experience in sales, marketing, business development, technology services, corporate training and consulting, enhanced by team leadership skills and specialized sales training. 

In his business career, Billy has always been a team player with success in increasing profitability and competency in sales production. He exhibits superior client care, motivational, enthusiastic, and interpersonal skills. Billy has a proven record of increasing participation and morale for clients, maintaining a genuine concern to see colleagues and clients achieve their business goals.  Billy has consulted and worked with a variety of companies and associates including Nextel, Harper Collins Publishers, Arco Exploration, Aramark, The Outdoor Channel, The Vision Channel, Stephen Covey Seminars, Brian Tracy Seminars, American Management Association, and the California State Employee Training Panel.

Billy has a BS degree in Geophysics from San Diego Christian College and has done graduate work at SMU in engineering management.  He received an MBA from the University of Redlands (CA) with an emphasis in customer relationship management systems and internet commerce applications. He is ever passionate in obtaining the facts in pursuit of the truth as it applies to the issues of life. We are very proud to have Billy on the TOV Center team.



Thursday, October 8, 2015

Please Remember MaKayla Dyer

Please keep the family of MaKayla Dyer in your thoughts and prayers. She is the little eight year old girl that was shot with a 12 gauge shotgun and killed by an eleven year old neighbor because she refused to let him see her puppy. Please consider making a donation to help the family on funeral expenses too. http://www.cooke-campbellmortuary.com/book-of-memories/2262786/Dyer-MaKayla/obituary.php

Monday, October 5, 2015

Would you like to increase the odds of success for your child? Do this & it’s FREE!

Words are like spotlights that reveal things to those who know them that are hidden from those who do not. The acquisition of words creates a treasure that cannot be taken from your child. With those treasures your child will be able to more accurately make distinctions between things that exists – as well as between reality and fiction. The odds of making good decisions in life increase exponentially as this treasure grows.

(1) Reading aloud is widely recognized as the single most important activity leading to language development. Among other things, reading aloud builds word-sound awareness in children, a potent predictor of reading success.

(2) Reading aloud to young children is not only one of the best activities to stimulate language and cognitive skills; it also builds motivation, curiosity, and memory. 

(3) Research shows that the more words parents use when speaking to an 8-month-old infant, the greater the size of their child's vocabulary at age 3. The landmark Hart-Risley study on language development documented that children from low-income families hear as many as 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers before the age of 4. 

Giving this free gift is very important for another reason -- when you give it you are actually giving your child two gifts. Turn your phone, computer and TV off. Give the gift that no one else, no program or no app can give – your undivided attention. In today’s world, learning how to give another person your undivided attention will increase your odds of success, too. It will not take very long to begin to reap the rewards -- especially the priceless rewards that can only come from your child.


Read the article about the benefits of reading aloud at -- http://www.reachoutandread.org/why-we-work/importance-of-reading-aloud/