Michael Byrd Email & Phone Number

●Counseling: Offers informal, formal, grief, transition, employment, familial, and others; the ministry of presence. ●Religious Services: Conducts multiple Protestant services each week; networks, coordinates, and arranges with other religious affiliations to meet everyone's spiritual needs. ●Memorial & Funeral Services: Establishes a hallmark of ministry, sensitively done. ●Community Outreach and Support: Dedicated involvement with and giving back to our community. ●Alzheimer's Caregivers Support Group: Nearly two decades of successful leadership of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group. ●Quality First’s Governance and Accountability Committee Member: Focuses on business and clinical ethics.●Chair, Clinical Ethics Committee: As chair of Wesley’s ad hoc Clinical Ethics Committee, I broaden the focus of clinical ethics from the exclusive realm of the referenced committee to a daily practice of resident, family and staff education wherein they are guided to make those difficult decisions.●Corporate Teamwork: Provides support and guidance, as well as enjoying peer-collaboration.●Campus Teamwork: Focuses on respectfully engaging with everyone through intentionally positive interpersonal relations. We collaborate on projects, but I am also there as counsel and support for their needs in an intentional demonstration of respect to them and their work requirements, significance, and professional contributions. ●Chaplain-initiated, Driven, Directed, and Funded Distinctives: Intentionally seeks, embraces, and pushes for advances like Music & Memory and the new Virtual Dementia Training Kit. Because of my efforts, Wesley was the first in the state to offer Music & Memory in the Assisted Living setting, and I was the first main speaker and advocate in Washington State, speaking on the topic often.

Listed skills include Community Outreach, Public Speaking, Event Planning, Program Development, and 15 others.