Team leader supervising Social Workers and RN case managers delivering Family Care Medicaid Services to individuals with disabilities and frail elders in Rock County, Wisconsin

Case management and long-term care service coordination for people with disabilities and frail elders receiving benefits from Wisconsin Family Care.

Individual Service Coordinator for PAS/ISC agency charged with providing Service Coordination, support and advocacy services for individuals receiving DHS/DDD funding through the Home and Community-Based Supports Waiver Program. Focus on Pre-Admission Screening and Eligibility determination for individuals selected off the Prioritization of Urgency of Need for Services (PUNS) database as a result of the Ligas lawsuit Consent Decree.

Providing case-management and individual support services to adults with intellectual disabilities living in CILA homes in the Chicago suburbs.

Oversee the day-to-day management of a 4-person CILA home. Implement client goals and objectives per criteria outlined in client Individual Support Plans. Provide training and assistance to individual clients in the areas of medication administration, independent living skills, economic self-sufficiency, and community integration.

Researched potential individual, corporate, and foundation donors, developed letters of inquiry, prepared funding proposals, edited copy for annual report.

Assist persons with intellectual disabilities living in CILA homes in all areas of daily living, medication administration, home care and hygiene tasks, and community integration.

Americorps VISTA volunteer-- Kinship Navigator Program: Coordinated outreach efforts for emerging support and referral program serving grandparents and other relative caregivers raising children both in and outside of the formal foster care system in Franklin County, OH. Designed and implemented community-based support groups for relative caregivers, Prepared funding proposals, managed client database, represented agency at community information events.