Brightstone Transitions with Jason Cox & Jill Allen

Jason is the Co-Owner of Brightstone Transitions. He brings a wide variety of experiences and passions to the Brightstone team. Jason comes to Brightstone with years of management experience in both therapeutic programming and summer camp programs.

Jason has a great deal of experience in designing and implementing programming to help young people. Jason started his career working with inner city youth in the Atlanta area in a wilderness-based programming for over seven years. Helping to develop programing for boarding schools on the East Coast became his focus before moving on to other programing areas. Through the years, Jason has had the opportunity to work with several camps and schools across the country. Jason accepted a job as the Director of Conferences, Retreats and Summer Programming for the Greater Seattle YMCA. Jason then moved to San Francisco to work with the Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco where he served as Assistant Camp Director of Programs and helped to connect Bay Area inner city youth with healthier lifestyles through the outdoors. After several years of work with the Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco, Jason took an opportunity to run a program near his family in North Carolina. During that work, Jason developed a passion for helping young adults that led him to Brightstone. 

Jason takes an active approach to working with clients and their families and remains closely connected throughout their time with Brightstone. A major focus of his work with young adults is helping them find and pursue their individual passions. Jason understands that this often leads to young adults finding new ways to be successful. In addition to Brightstone Transitions, Jason is also the owner of Point School Puerto Rico, a hybrid gap year program in Isabella, Puerto Rico and Wisdom Ranch, a vocational gap year program in Arco, Idaho. Jason received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with a concentration in Southern Urban Minority Politics from East Carolina University. In his free time Jason enjoys the outdoors, playing golf, and spending time traveling with his son.  

Jill Allen serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Brightstone Transitions. Jill obtained a bachelor’s degree from Salve Regina University in Secondary Education and is in pursuit of her Master’s degree in Human Service Administration from Bellevue University. She began her career working in therapeutic boarding schools, where she found a passion for working with those diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). After finding her passion, she then focused her efforts on becoming a Behavior Specialist where she helped middle and high school students improve their behavior in the school setting. While serving as Behavior Specialist Jill provided direct intervention, created school safety protocols, and served as the Nonviolent Crisis Prevention Intervention trainer. Jill has also provided in-home supports to clients and families as a Case Manager and Supervisor with Boys Town of South Florida. While at Boys Town, Jill advocated for services for clients within their communities and provided parent support and training.

Throughout Jill’s experience she has focused on how to help staff and parents see client behavior as communication of needs. Showing both families and staff that if that if they look towards what is being communicated that we can find how to both decrease the behavior and more importantly help the client is Jill’s passion. She feels that with strong relationship building, clients feel safe to seek the help they need and will be more likely to accept feedback. In addition to supporting Brightstone, Jill supports their gap year programs Point School Puerto Rico and Wisdom Ranch. When not with Brightstone young adults, Jill can be found home in Georgia with her daughter, traveling to see family in New England, reading books, or attempting to run long distances.