Experience

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  Kansas Children's Service League

  • United States
  • Civic and Social Organizations
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Healthy Families Director

    • Oct 1999 - Present

    I work with KCSL's Healthy Families Kansas programs across the state and serve as the state leader for Healthy Families America. I also provide oversight for some of KCSL's training programs including our eLearning program and our child sexual abuse prevention training which we are currently piloting in southeast Kansas.

  • Training Director

    • Feb 2006 - Sep 2013

    I provide oversight to our various training programs including our elearning program (http://elearning.kcsl.org) which offers online classes for early childhood professionals and other audiences, our foster parent training (www.childally.org) through the Children's Alliance, Healthy Families America Core FSW training, child abuse and neglect training, and misc. staff training.

  • Healthy Families Supervisor

    • Oct 1999 - Jan 2006

    Supervised Healthy Families programs in Hutchinson, KS and Wichita, KS. Programs provided home visitation services to new parents to prevent child abuse and neglect.

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  Naperville Christian Church

  • Naperville, IL

  • Director of Children's and Youth Ministries

    • Aug 1996 - Aug 1999
    • Naperville, IL

    Worked with awesome volunteer teams to lead the ministries for children and youth. Led groups of kids on mission trips, CIY conferences, weekly bible studies, and other special events.

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  David C. Cook

  • Wheaton, IL

  • Human Resources Secretary

    • 1996 - 1997
    • Wheaton, IL

    Originally worked at Scripture Press and assisted the Human Resources Director during the merger with David C. Cook Publishing and the subsequent move to Colorado.

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  Adventures in Missions

  • Bloomfield, Indiana

  • Youth Worker

    • 1993 - 1996
    • Bloomfield, Indiana

    Helped plan and lead short term mission trips for high school and college students. Worked with churches across the United States and Canada to do team building to prepare for summer mission opportunities. Also became quite skilled at cleaning bathrooms, taking out trash, and all night packing sessions for the camp we managed.

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  National Center for Fathering

  • Manhattan, KS

  • Administrative Assistant

    • 1991 - 1992
    • Manhattan, KS

    Assisted with national fathering convention, local and state workshops and research projects related to fathering.