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Tracey Hickey is a resource home specialist. In addition to her regular duties, she helped 15 families become licensed foster parents this past fiscal year, July 2015-June 2016. This is a lot considering the state lengthy interviews and paperwork-inundated process. Great job, Tracey! | |||||||
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Laura Montoya will be retiring from the agency after 20 years of dedicated service. Laura has dedicated her time at Catholic Charities to counseling, Family Builders and Parents as Teachers. Laura’s excellent customer service skills, organizational skills, and sense of humor will surely be missed! See details about her retirement celebration in the Events section. |
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Joe Walker is nothing but kind and gracious to his fellow employees. He goes above and beyond in helping our foster families and the children we serve. | |||||||
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North Star Youth Partnerships new health educator, Amanda Matheny, is off and running at Prescott High School (PHS)! She was given her own classroom to teach in this year and spent hours putting up bulletin boards and posters. The classroom is fun and inviting. PHS students and staff love her, in fact, the school's principal wants to steal her away from us. NO WAY! | |||||||
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Diversion staff, Lois Lucas and Tina Smithee organized and participated in a group volunteer project that included 30 volunteers, our mentoring program, Arizona State University and City of Phoenix Victim Advocacy staff. Outreach bags were made from T-shirts and filled with essential hygiene products. [photo Diversion volunteer group Sept 2016] A diversion client reached out to the City of Phoenix prosecutor’s office to brag about our program. The client expressed how wonderful the program was and how much it has made a positive impact in her life and how amazing and compassionate the staff is. |
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Robyn Milton in accounting is doing an awesome job leading the team and handling auditor requests during the year-end audit. While the tasks around the audit can take up most of the day, she is still managing to stay on top of her day-to-day never-ending duties. Keep it up Robyn, the light is at the end of the tunnel! | |||||||
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Congrats to North Star’s peer assistance & leadership (PAL) specialists, Stacey Gagnon in Camp Verde, Ginger Campbell in Prescott, and Christine Williams in Phoenix. They have the largest PAL groups in North Star history. Ginger has added a new school, BASIS, in Prescott and all the other sites have broken recruitment records. | |||||||
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Kristy Enricco, resident services coordinator at Verde Villas started working for Catholic Charities part-time in March of 2016. She serves as our property manager and our resident services coordinator. Residents regularly express their happiness with Kristy. She helps with client referrals, job readiness, financial education and after-school programming. She is loved by the kids and adults both for her genuine care of helping them reach self-sufficiency and have a community they call their own! | |||||||
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Sal Carbajal is often found at the IT help desk. His technical expertise, helpful demeanor and positive disposition have been noticed by the staff at the WSHS Olive office, who note that he is always quick to help. | |||||||
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Eunice Allen is a health educator with North Star Youth Partnership. Eunice always does an amazing job not only teaching classes, but she also schedules the classes for her funding source. She also went out of her way to help a new staff member get all of her equipment. | |||||||
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Lucy Martinez, parent educator for Parents as Teachers Program is a very hard worker. She does a great job with her clients and is always willing to help her co-workers. She also translates forms for us into Spanish when we need them and helps teach a parenting class at My Sisters’ Place once a month. | |||||||
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Eliza Louden, Camie Rasband, Jackie Nairn and Lauren Randel were all presenters at the Arizona Coalition to End Homelessness annual conference. They did a phenomenal job of representing Catholic Charities as a group of professionals and topic experts. At this same conference, Rick Brust received the 2016 Kevin Collins award for his excellent work with the homeless. | |||||||
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In another example of our One Team atmosphere, Laura Navarro in IT spent her vacation in Mexico helping students in need. She partnered with Brian Jauregui from the unaccompanied minor program. He donated 20 school backpacks with some school supplies that Laura distributed to families in Agua Prieta, Mexico. The students and parents were delighted by the kindness shown to them. | |||||||
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Steve Capobres, vice president of business development and Jim Robbins, senior director of IT and procurement, masterfully facilitated Annual Town Halls around the state for the latest “listening tour” for Executive Leadership Team with all CCCS Team Members. | |||||||
If you missed September’s accomplishments see them here!
