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Meet Our Team

Get to know the people leading change and support

(From left to right) Cheryl K, Cheryl J, Tony, Kathleen, Tracy

Board of Directors

Cheryl Juaire

Founder, Team Sharing Inc

Cheryl is the proud mom of three sons: Robert, Sean and Corey.  In 2011, at the beginning of the opioid epidemic, Corey died of an overdose at age 23.  At the time, Cheryl didn’t know anyone with a child who had died, let alone from an overdose.  And for the next two and a half years, she and her family grieved alone. Then one night, she received an invitation to meet other mothers who had lost a child from an overdose.  It was then that she knew how much grieving parents, parents whose child had died from SUD, needed one another. 

In 2015, Cheryl founded Team Sharing – MA, a support group within her own state where parents meet and support one another and has since started chapters in 25 other states that do the same, including the national chapter TEAM SHARING.  

In 2017, six years after Corey’s death, Team Sharing, Inc became a 501(c)3, nationwide support network for families who have lost a loved one through addiction.  Cheryl’s grief, though it does not define her, has inspired her to reach every family, in all 50 states, that are grieving from the loss of their child through addiction, as well as those children that were left behind. In 2021 Cheryl lost another son, Sean, to the disease of addiction.

Cheryl has dedicated her life work in advocacy, to help bring awareness to the disease of addiction and to help to end the stigma that comes with it. Cheryl has worked tirelessly across the states in trying to get our flags lowered to half staff on August 31st, International Overdose Awareness Day and has been successful with 13 states. In September 2019 Cheryl was chosen by the United States Trustee’s office to sit on the Unsecured Creditors Committee in the Purdue Bankruptcy, doing her role to hold them accountable in this crisis. In 2021 Cheryl was a guest of Congresswoman Lori Trahan at the State Of The Union Address at the Capital. Cheryl’s latest venture is to have Overdose Awareness license plates on every vehicle in Massachusetts. Cheryl and her husband, Peter, live in Central Massachusetts.  They are the proud grandparents of 7 children including Faith, Corey’s daughter, and Seanna and Jonathon, Sean’s children. They are also the great grandparents to 2 more and 1 on the way!

Cheryl Kulacz

Cheryl has 25+ years of experience in Leadership Development. She began her career with the management and OD consulting firms, Innovation Associates (Co-founded and partnered by Peter Senge, author of the book “The Fifth Discipline”) and Arthur D. Little, where her passion for organizational learning and leadership development was born.

Her professional experience includes building global Corporate Learning and Leadership Development functions within companies such as EMC, Staples and most recently, Bose.  In these roles, she has supported the development of employees at all levels from early-in-career new hires through senior executives.  She also has worked closely with CEOs and Executive Teams on culture transformation, starting with their own individual and team effectiveness.

Cheryl lost her only child, Curran Tierney, to an accidental overdose in April of 2022 after a challenging 12-year struggle with Substance Use Disorder.  During those years Cheryl became intimately aware of the dysfunction in the system that is supposed to be helping those suffering this horrible disease.  She became actively involved in advocacy work and raising awareness, as well as volunteering her professional experience and skillsets to support various treatment programs that Curran attended. 

Although Curran could not be saved, Cheryl is driven to continue to drive change in this area.  The combination of her personal experience and business background will help Team Sharing continue to grow and support other families navigating the challenging landscape of loving and losing someone to addiction.

Tony Piccolo

Tony Piccolo has been married to his wife Maureen for 43 years.  They have no children of their own but have a deep concern and commitment to the addiction problem that plagues our young adults today.

Even though Tony’s professional background has been in the medical field for the past 25 years, he knows that there is only so much that can be done for children and young adults that are born with diseases.  So he sought to focus on afflictions that are preventable, which bought him to the realization that addiction is preventable.

As a longtime member of the Elks fraternal organization, Tony has been aware of the need for Drug Awareness through the Elks Drug Awareness Program and has become very active with this committee over the past few years.  When Tony was the Massachusetts State President of the Elks, he personally funded a raffle at his installation that raised over $2,000 for the Drug Awareness Program.

Additionally, as State President Tony was allotted funds from a charity account which he earmarked for Team Sharing to purchase The Hope Trailer. 

The Elks Organization is also how Tony came to know about Team Sharing.  And, now as a new Team Sharing Board Member, Tony is anxious to get more involved in educating to help with change in the direction of eliminating the stigma of addiction.

Kathleen Scarpone

Kay has appeared several times on WMUR’s “State of Addiction” news specials and has participated in the Wahlberg Foundation sponsored Opioid Summits in both Massachusetts and NH.

Kay has spoken at several DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) events including Operation Engage which was a youth summit where Kay spoke to over 15,000 students in NH about the dangers of drugs in 2021 and 2022.

Kay and the founder of Team Sharing (Cheryl Juiare) appeared on the Tamron Hall show in 2021, explaining how their grief turned into making a difference by becoming advocates for change.

Kay participated in the Purdue Bankruptcy trial as a member of the Ad Hoc Victims committee from 2019 to 2002 as well as the McKesson bankruptcy case in 2022.

She has also traveled to Washington DC several times to meet with the Interim Director of the Drug Enforcement Administration to share her concerns about what needs to be done regards to further education for our youth.  Kay also works with the NH DEA’s office for the bi-annual Drug Take Back Day.

Kay and her Husband, Jim reside in Kingston, NH

Tracy Carter

Tracy and her husband Gary are the proud parents of 2 children, Bryant and Morgan.  Bryant fought addiction all alone before asking for help in August 2011.  Years of constant doctor appointments, mental health intervention, including a 2 week day program didn’t help Bryant out of his depression.  One night in 2015, Bryant attended an outreach program called Metrowest Hope at Grace Baptist Church.  From this, Bryant started attending Celebrate Recovery.  Finally, he took a friend’s advice to make it to a church service and was so welcomed that he stayed.  Eventually he was baptized and was participating with the church 4 times a week.  Bryant lost his struggle with addiction in February of 2018.

Throughout Bryant’s struggle, Gary and Tracy were also actively fighting for his recovery.  Fighting to get him medical attention in 2011 was a horrible experience. An active suffering addict can’t wait weeks for assistance.  It was a very dark time.  Hours of phone calls and begging and fighting finally got Bryant a referral for help.  He would struggle with his recovery in a broken system for years. This experience is what has inspired Gary and Tracy to get involved. 

Through his 7 year battle, Gary and Tracy attended AA and NA with Bryant.  Over the past 2 years Tracy has been active with the Maynard Elks Drug Awareness program and many community events.  

Gary and Tracy attended the March at Purdue in CT and helped facilitate getting parents of children lost to SUD to the Fed Up Rally in DC in October 2018.