BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA

specific strategies for planning and implementing
change projects in organizations and communities.
Attachment #14
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January 2006-December 2007 The Alzheimer’s
Project, Inc. Tallahassee, FL
Education and Training Director
• Provide education and training to professional and
para-professionals on multiple topics relative to persons
with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and
their caregivers within a ten county Planning and
Service Area (PSA).
• Act as community liaison and recruiting consultant to
the Alzheimer’s Rural Care Healthline (ARCH Project),
Florida State University, College of Medicine. Training
consultant and rural county recruiter and training
coordinator for the Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare
NeuroScience Center Memory Disorder Clinic.
• Field liaison and intern preceptor for the FSU College of
Social Work and FAMU School of Social Work.-responsible
for consulting and directing social work
interns through the field applications of their respective
didactic programs. Trained and supervised 16 students
through field placement from January 2006 – October
2008.
• Group facilitator and originator of the Parkinson’s
disease support group in Marianna, Florida in
cooperation with the Parkinson’s Foundation of America
and the TMH Memory Disorder Clinic.
• Agency liaison between the Alzheimer’s Project Inc.,
the Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Memory Disorder
Clinic, the Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Parkinson’s
Clinic, the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, the Area
Agency on Aging of North Florida, and Elder Care
Services of Tallahassee.
• Responsible for organizing and facilitating the annual
Alzheimer’s Disease Education Conference in
cooperation with the FSU College of Medicine, the
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare Neuroscience Center,
and the Area Agency on Aging of North Florida.
• Responsible for updating, editing, and distributing the
annual Alzheimer’s Disease Index and Resource
Handbook for the Big Bend Area.
• Advisory board member for the FSU College of Social
Work Live-Oak Geriatric Practicum. Research advisor
to the TMH Memory Disorder Clinic and the Parkinson’s
Foundation conducting focus groups and workshops in
the ten county Planning and Service Areas, (PSA).
• Counselor to both individual and group clients dealing
with caregiving, caregiver stress, and challenging
behaviors in Alzheimer’s patients as well as resource
identification and acquisition.
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