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Jason Gregory |
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Executive Director |
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jasong@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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| I have
worked with the BRS population for the
past 12 years and in this time, I have
been a line staff, Program Manager and
Director for other agencies. My duties
have included but not limited to
training staff, overseeing and
implementing the treatment of our
clients, participating in the process of
admission of client’s and staying in
compliance of our BRS contract. I have
the educational background and real life
experience to understand the population
we work with and believe that with my
passion and experience, I can and have
made positive changes to our youth. |
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Blake McFrederick |
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Director |
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blakem@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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| Blake
has worked for PNW Helping Hands for
over three years. He has 8 years of
previous experience working with the BRS
population. Blake has lived in
Spokane his entire life and chooses to
raise his four sons in the Valley with
his wife. |
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Caitlin Seaman |
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Assistant Director / RLSP Manager |
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caitlins@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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| Caitlin
has worked for PNW Helping Hands for 2
years and helped open our new RLS
program last march and is an Assistant
Director. She has a Bachelor's of
Science degree in Psychology with an
emphasis in Childhood Development. She
has been working with troubled and
high-risk youth for 7 years. |
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Fay Cadwadaller |
| MSW
Consultant |
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fayc@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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| Fay is
the MSW for PNW Helping Hands and has
over 21 years of experience with the BRS
population. |
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Leah Williams |
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Manager / HR |
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leahw@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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Leah has
her Business Degree, specializing in
Human Resource Management, which she
received out of Eastern Washington
University. She has been doing HR and
administrative activities for over ten
years and enjoys the opportunity to
support the PNW Helping Hands team
members in this very rewarding and at
times challenging field. |
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Jaime Sparber |
| Brooke
Program Manager |
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jaimes@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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| Jaime
has been a Program Manager for over a
year. She realizes how rewarding her job
is and what an asset it is to the
community. She graduated from Eastern
Washington University in 2008 with a
Bachelors Degree in Psychology with an
undergraduate degree in Communication
Studies.
Her dream
is to help those in need. Growing up her
parents decided to get into the foster
care system and foster children,
eventually adopting two. She say the
transformation that these children went
through over the years and knew that
this is what she wanted to dedicate her
life to. Nothing is more rewarding than
seeing a child in need coming from an
unfortunate background succeed. |
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Alissa Mellick |
| Mikhail
Program Manager |
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alissam@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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| Alissa
is the Program Manager at the Mikahil
program which is house specific to a one
on one client. She has over 10 years of
experience working with high-risk youth. |
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Rebecca Ellsworth |
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Hamilton Program Manager |
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beccae@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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has worked with children under a DSHS
foster case aide working with kids that
are medically fragile, as well as having
physical and mental impalements due to
being born prematurely or having drugs
and/or alcohol while in utero. She has
taken many classes while in college for
communication tactics while in stressful
and dangerous situations as well as
being able to successfully remove
individuals from these situations. She
has worked with people and children from
all backgrounds while completing college
and working on the campus as a FTO
officer for campus security as well as
being a uniformed security officer after
college. |
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Eliseo Hernandez |
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Program Manager |
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eliseoh@pnwhelpinghands.com |
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Eliseo looks back to his 20+ years of
working with youth all across the
country he would have to say that this
has been a calling in his life. He has
learned so much and continues to grow
and mature in this line of work. He
appreciates all the help, support and
advice that he has received from people
along the way who have helped to
encourage him so much in understanding
why we do what we do every day in
helping our youth grow up to be
productive, responsible and caring
citizens in our communities. It has been
such a blessing as he has seen young men
grow up with integrity and being able to
forgive those who have hurt them in
life. In order to help our youth at
risk, he believes that it starts with
ourselves understanding our own hurt and
pain and where it's coming from. He
enjoys this work because he can identify
with their hurt and pain and feels that
he can help them deal and cope with
their hurt and anger with tools that he
has learned in life such as forgiveness,
self-control, honesty, accountability
and integrity. He walks through this
journey with youth and his hope is to
result in success. It's not the hours he
puts into the day but rather what he
does during those hours of work. "Be
a doer, not just a hearer." |
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