Company Directors

Tandra Thompson
Executive Director
Tandra joined the Community Connections team in summer of 2021 as the Children’s Mental Health Director. Tandra has been fortunate to work closely with children and families for over 20 years in respite care, wilderness therapy, early education, special education, and as a parent educator. In Alaska, Tandra has worked as a foster parent, teacher, child care manager, social services coordinator, and has provided training all over the state in early intervention and child care programming. Tandra’s undergraduate and graduate studies focused on best practices for promoting child, family and community health. Tandra believes everything she has done in her life has brought her here to Community Connections. In April of 2025 Tandra took on the role of Executive director. She has a strong commitment to human development, family systems, school success, training and program design for each department within Community Connections. Tandra has lived in Ketchikan since 2009 with her family supporting the communities of Ketchikan and Prince of Wales for many of those years.

Maxwell Mercer
Grants & Contracts Director

Jesse Yarbrough
Finance Director

Brynn Bolling
Early Learning Program Director (ELP)

Victoria Gould
Children's Mental Health Program Director (CMH)
Victoria started her professional career as a teacher for hearing impaired children, and although she found her years teaching very rewarding, she realized her passion lay in helping children with their social-emotional well-being. So, she returned to school and started her new career as a psychologist. In this role, she worked in community mental health, birth to three programs, foster care, within the school setting, and eventually private practice. In 2023, she moved to Ketchikan full-time and started working as a clinician in Community Connections Children’s Mental Health, and then as Clinical Director for the program. Victoria’s values and commitment to service closely align with Community Connection’s mission and she is very excited to steward an incredible program as it helps children and families in the Ketchikan and POW community.

Tyler McNeil
Senior & Disability Services Program Director (SDS)
Tyler has been with Community Connections since moving back to Ketchikan in the summer of 2015. After graduating from Kayhi, he moved to Idaho and began working as a direct service provider and has worked in social services ever since. In his professional career, Tyler has primarily provided services to individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), however he has also worked with adolescents in residential treatment and still currently works with adolescents through regular volunteer work in the community. Prior to moving back to Ketchikan, Tyler spent several years overseeing group homes for adults with IDD outside of Seattle. Much of his time with Community Connections was spent overseeing services at Opportunity House and more recently he has worked as the Disability Services Manager for Ketchikan. In April of 2022, after completion of his BA in Human Services, he transitioned to his current role as the SDS Program director. Tyler believes strongly in the Mission of Community Connections and deeply values Person-Centered and Customer-Directed services. Outside of work, Tyler enjoys spending time in nature with his wife and two daughters.