John Rust Email & Phone Number

Cookeville, Tennessee, United States

Cookeville, Tennessee, United States

Upper Cumberland Region Of Middle Tennessee

Provide organizational structure for statewide networking on behalf of children and families. Work to make available information about services to children and events of interest to advocates and other interested Tennesseans.

Responsible for developing new agency business through relationship building, grant writing, developing partnerships, seeking state and/or federal funding and developing fee for service programs. Developing a non-profit agency, Tennessee Community Solutions, that will compliment the services of Tennessee Community Services Agency. Provide marketing and.

I am responsible for directing all programming in the Middle Tennessee region for TNCSA.

I am responsible for the development of new business ventures for TNCSA. Currently, that involves securing state agency and federal program contracts for various types of social services. Our biggest venture to date is setting up a non-profit agency in order to have access to additional funding sources.

I have the opportunity of working with different projects within our agency. I currently work as a representative of Tennessee's State Child Insurance Program, referred to as CoverKids, and a state sponsored insurance program called CoverTN. I coordinate registration for two juvenile educational programs; a defensive driving course and an alcohol and drug.

Initiate start-up and direct various agency contracts including TN Department of Health's Diabetes Services Initiative, Upper Cumberland Regional Mock Disaster Preparedness meeting, and TN Department of Finance and Administration's CoverTennessee outreach program. In this position I have been responsible to network throughout the Upper Cumberland region.

Directed a $1.9 million FEMA funded Public Assistance program in the Upper Cumberland region for evacuees of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This position began with a limited mission delivered from FEMA to the State Department of Finance and Administration to a full-blown comprehensive social service assistance program. The program provides rental and.

Initially responsible for coordinating services to assign tutors and follow up on all aspects of reporting, being a liaison between tutees, parents and school staff as well as other various administrative responsibilities. My second year of part-time employment, I provided assessment and tutoring services to children in DCS custody within the Upper.

Directed all aspects of a multi-site tutoring/mentoring prevention program hosted by public schools and community-based organizations located throughout the Upper Cumberland region of middle Tennessee. I was responsible for hiring and training approximately 30 AmeriCorps members, monitoring each host site and its members, and collecting and reporting data.

Initially, this position worked with communities in the Upper Cumberland region to assist with grass roots efforts to reduce the number of children entering state custody by mobilizing communities to develop effective diversion, intervention and prevention activities. In 2001, the agency received grant funds from TN Commission on National and Community.

Initially, I worked in the National Call center answering general questions for customers that included the following areas: billing, service times, complaints, scheduling pick ups and freight quotes. I later moved to a specialty team that worked exclusively on all aspects of freight that customers reconsigned.

Therapeutic Foster ParentOn June 15, 1996, my wife and I became foster parents to a beautiful six-year-old girl. For three years we were fortunate enough to invest our life into this intelligent child and assist her in all areas of life. Duties of therapeutic foster parents included daily monitoring and reporting of behaviors, regular meetings with case.

Monitored programmatic and financial aspects of the Governor's Community Prevention Initiative. The funding for such programs were given to communities that ranked highest on factors such as referrals to juvenile court, teen suicide, teen pregnancy, children in state custody and low graduation rates. During my tenure in this position, two communities.

Provided assessment, care and coordination of services to children referred to juvenile courts on delinquent, unruly and dependent and neglected petitions. Services to these youth included gathering social, educational, health and mental health data to be used in formulating recommendations to referring juvenile courts. For those children placed into state.

This WK Kellogg grant funded position was part of the Training Resource Center housed at the Community Health Agency. The center's goals were to assess the training needs of social service personnel, provide social service training to local social workers, and drive curriculum change at Tennessee Technological University so that graduates working in the.

Provided assessment, care and coordination of services to children referred to juvenile courts on delinquent, unruly and dependent and neglected petitions. Services to these youth included gathering social, educational, health and mental health data to be used in formulating recommendations to referring juvenile courts. For those children placed into state.

Provided child and adult protective services for reported abuse and neglected individuals in White County Tennessee.

B.S., Psychology

B.S, Psychology

Bachelor Of Science, Psychology

Agency Counseling Degree not completed