Miguel Gutierrez Email and Phone Number

• Managing the overall operation of the organization’s programs.• Designing, directing, implementing, and disseminating objectives and operational strategies.• Creating and managing program budgets.• Developing, processing, and monitoring evaluation toolkits and indicators to measure program performance.• Ensuring project operations are consistent with regulatory guidelines and internal processes.• Developing innovative work systems and processes to simplify operations of current community and social services.• Collecting, recording, and analyzing project data.• Developing insightful reports for top management.• Work with staff to develop objective performance measurements across all sites, to ensure consistent, high-quality evaluation and goal setting for all employees.• Recruit, hire, and oversee training and orientation of all staff members.

• Conducting evidence-based assessments, prior services authorization, and developing cost plans based on assessment results for the Agency for Persons with Disabilities using the Questionnaire for Situation Information (QSI) for all individuals enrolled on the Home and Community Based Waiver (HCBS) Waiver, Family and Supported Living (FSL), and Consumer Directed Plus (CDC+) waivers. • Provide individuals, family members, and provider information/literature on available resources in the community that might be available based on the needs identified during the meetings held and QSI assessments completed.• Reviews the individual’s central record including recent assessments, progress notes from medical records, school records, previous support plans, and relevant information from other collateral sources as appropriate.• Interviews with the individual’s caregivers, health care personnel, support coordinator, or service providers will be conducted as appropriate. Completes the Questionnaire for Situation Information (QSI) and maintains inter-rater reliability.• Communicates needs for follow-up by Medical Case Manager or Regional Behavior Analyst following completion of QSI assessment.

• Research state statutes, decisions, legal articles, codes, and documents.• Support efficient meetings by organizing spaces and material, documenting discussions, and distributing meeting notes.• Performs general office duties, including answering multi-line phone systems, delivering messages, and greeting visitors.• District data collection and management.

• Case management • Meet with consumers (individuals with developmental disabilities), families, and providers on a monthly basis.• Maintain case notes every month for each consumer and send that information to APD.• Gather and inquire about information about the consumer (health, safety, well-being, and education).• Create a plan of service annually and advocate for the consumers’ needs.• Creating a personal center support plan with the individuals and their families to identify their goals, needs, and improvements. • Responsible for obtaining information from consumers about community resources and events that would allow the consumer better integration into the community.

• Identifies and reports any suspected abuse or violation of an individual’s rights.• Provides support, assistance, and supervision to meet the needs and goals of individuals according to their plans.• Ensure that each individual’s training, behavior, and support programs are being implemented and documented in accordance with regulatory requirements.• Ensure that the health, safety, and well-being of individuals are protected at all times.• Provides a positive, reinforcing environment that promotes independence and choice.• Provides the necessary level of assistance for appropriate diet, texture, and equipment.

• Proactively manage cases from beginning to end and supervise legal assistants.• Health service legal advocate for clients.• Draft legal business documents. • Review and analyze legal business documents.• Design legal business plans for clients.• Evaluate potential cases and convert them to clients.• Provide superior customer service to all clients.

• Provide organizational support for loading the judge’s cases and lead the office team.• Management and programming of the professional calendar and the judge’s court.• Advocate for the rights of users of judicial services on the civil circuit.• Pre-trial hearings, trials, conferences, and committee meetings.• Review case files to verify the accuracy, format compliance, and integrity before scheduled hearings.• Act as a liaison for the judge to help and inform the litigants, lawyers, law enforcement personnel, and witnesses in relation to the court’s procedure and policy.• Detect phone calls and visitors to the judge’s office; provide information, solve problems, direct the caller/visitor to the appropriate staff or agency, or take messages.