Ms. Castillo grew up in a small rural town in Ohio. She spent a year in the Marine Corps, where she met her husband of 45 years. After getting married, the family moved to Texas where she spent the next two decades raising her children. Ms. Castillo began taking classes at Lee College when the youngest of her three children started kindergarten. She transferred to University of Houston-Clear Lake, where she received her Bachelors in Behavioral Science with a concentration in Human Services. She worked in adult mental health for two years prior to her work with Communities In Schools. Ms. Castillo has been with CIS Baytown for over 20 years and has worked with both junior high and high school students on five separate campuses within the Goose Creek School District. She is beginning her second year at E. F Green, where she has never felt more at home.