Experience

Soar Case Management

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  SOAR is a not-for-profit community based mental health and co-occurring substance use agency providing case management, community Certified Peer Specialists, and Peer-Run Respite services in Dane County, Wisconsin. We strive to embody strengths-based, person-centered, and recovery oriented services to support people in continuously moving toward their best selves. SOAR is a not-for-profit community based mental health and co-occurring substance use agency providing case management, community Certified Peer Specialists, and Peer-Run Respite services in Dane County, Wisconsin. We strive to embody strengths-based, person-centered, and recovery oriented services to support people in continuously moving toward their best selves.



University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Individual Placement and Support (IPS) State Trainer

  • May 2020 - Apr 2022

  Meaningful employment is a path for many people into recovery. Meaningful employment is a path for many people into recovery.


Westat - Improving Lives Through Research
• Field Officer

  • Mar 2019 - Oct 2020


Wisconsin Department of Health Services

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Community Programs Quality Improvement Specialist

  • Jul 2013 - May 2020

  Quality staff and programs help create an environment of recovery! I work on the Individualized Placement and Support (IPS) employment E.B.P., the WI Functional Screens for MH & SUD, and workforce development around peer specialists. I continue to work with stakeholders who represent the experience of living with mental illness & substance use disorders, providers, counties, families and others. Quality staff and programs help create an environment of recovery! I work on the Individualized Placement and Support (IPS) employment E.B.P., the WI Functional Screens for MH & SUD, and workforce development around peer specialists. I continue to work with stakeholders who represent the experience of living with mental illness & substance use disorders, providers, counties, families and others.



U.W. Madison Dept of Psychiatry / Dept of Health Services

• Recovery Coordinator / Outreach Specialist

  • 2006 - Jun 2013

  Work within State government and with stakeholders across Wisconsin to implement and support recovery oriented systems of care. Work within State government and with stakeholders across Wisconsin to implement and support recovery oriented systems of care.



Tellurian U.C.A.N.

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Special Funding and Wait List Management, Supervisor CRX

  • 1996 - 2005

  I supervised a staff of 8 who worked on Community Options Programs, M.A. Waivers, SSIE, Housing Specialists, Adult Family Homes, wait lists for adults seeking community based services including case management and residential services, and worked on creative discharge plans to move people out of state hospitals and into the community. I supervised a staff of 8 who worked on Community Options Programs, M.A. Waivers, SSIE, Housing Specialists, Adult Family Homes, wait lists for adults seeking community based services including case management and residential services, and worked on creative discharge plans to move people out of state hospitals and into the community.



SOAR Case Management Inc.

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Assistant Director and Case Manager

  • 1997 - 2000

  I supported the founder and director of SOAR to create an innovate program choice for citizens. We worked with people in the community with mental health and co-occurring challenges. SOAR was one of the first openly consumer run agencies that championed recovery. I supported the founder and director of SOAR to create an innovate program choice for citizens. We worked with people in the community with mental health and co-occurring challenges. SOAR was one of the first openly consumer run agencies that championed recovery.