ADMINISTRATION OFFICE - 1000 Silver Creek Road - Marquette, Michigan

The administrative office is the headquarters for Teaching Family Homes. Administrative staff provide clerical and financial support to all programs. Qualified support personnel specialize in treatment supervision, staff training, support and evaluation. The office also coordinates contract development, community training services, community relations and fund development for the agency as a whole.

- Christine Myers, LMSW - Chief Executive Officer
- Cathy Enright, MPA- Administrative Deputy Director
- Jerry Migda, LPC - Clinical Deputy Director
- Joleen Baysore - Office Manager
- Mike Smith - Events Coordinator/Facilities Manager
- Rich Rossway - Public Relations/Fund Development
- Dave Mastric - Service Learning Coordinator
- Gina Olson - IT Manager/Program Support
- Marcie Miller - Program Support Assistant

BUSINESS DEPARTMENT

- Jill Krah - Business Manager
- Marti Nachtman - Accounting Clerk
- Tina Carlson - Bookkeeper
- Marilyn Lempesis - Bookkeeper

RESIDENTIAL SERVICES

- Jamie Dieterle, BS - Residential Director

Regional Treatment Center - 1010 Silver Creek Road - Marquette, Michigan

This residential group home provides treatment for children with severe emotional or behavioral problems through individual and group therapy. The program, which operates in conjunction with regional behavioral health agencies and Marquette General Hospital, accepts youth psychiatric referrals, focusing on special needs for intensive treatment and care.

- Mark Holliday - Consultant/Social Service Worker
- Tanya Warren - Program Manager
- Laura Ceccarelli - Special Education Teacher
- Mary Carter - Counselor

Cedar Creek Teaching-Family Home - 1020 Silver Creek Road - Marquette, Michigan

Community-Based group home, co-ed, 8 youth, aged 5 - 17 years. Serves abused and neglected children. Behavioral treatment for developing social / emotional, academic and independent living skills. Staffed by a live-in couple or individual, assistant and family specialist who works with the family while the youth is in placement. Youth attend local schools and obtain support services in the community.

- Lindsay Downs - Consultant/Social Service Worker
- Jamie Dieterle - Social Work Supervisor
- Chris and Val Sevegney - Family Teachers
- Josh Rhodes - Assistant Family Teacher

South Bluff Teaching-Family Home - 1005 Silver Creek Road - Marquette, Michigan

Community-Based group home, co-ed, 6 youth, aged 5-17 years. Serves delinquent children. Behavioral treatment for developing social / emotional, academic and independent living skills. Staffed by a live-in couple or individual, assistant and family specialist who works with the family while the youth is in placement. Youth attend local schools and obtain support services in the community.

- Rachel Finkelberg - Consultant/Social Service Worker
- Jamie Dieterle - Social Work Supervisor
- Matt Pender - Assistant Family Teacher

Indian River Teaching-Family Home - 1015 Silver Creek Road - Marquette, Michigan

Community-Based group home, co-ed, 8 youth, aged 5 - 17 years. Behavioral treatment for developing social/emotional, academic and independent living skills. Staffed by a live-in couple or individual, assistant and family specialist who works with the family while the youth is in placement. Youth attend local schools and obtain support services in the community.

- Greg Pronger - Consultant/Social Service Worker
- Jamie Dieterle -Social Work Supervisor
- Daniel and Samantha Tracy - Family Teachers
- Marie Carter - Assistant Family Teacher

Lakes Area Staff Secure Facility - 7820 State Highway M 123 - Newberry, Michigan

Residential program serving 8 male youth ages 10 - 17. Behavioral treatment for developing social / emotional, academic and independent living skills. On-site accredited education program. Staffed by highly trained youth care workers, program managers, a teacher and social worker/ counselor.

- Dave Edie - Consultant/Social Service Worker
- Alexa King - Program Manager
- Brian Wiggins - Assistant Program Manager

EDUCATIONAL SERVICES

Our Campus offers a Day Treatment classroom for students who are unsuccessful in the public school system. The Social Skills Classroom serves the Marquette-Alger Regional Educational Services Area. It is comprised of three components including social skills teaching classroom for part-time to full-time special education students; outreach support services to regular education classroom teachers in an effort to prevent out-of-school placements; and teacher training and education around student behavior issues and methods. Teaching Family Homes also provides counseling and assessment services to students in the NICE, Ishpeming and Marquette school districts as well as North Star Academy (Charter School). Individualized behavioral treatment plans are developed to assist the student and school staff.

- Jamie Dieterle - Consultant
- Sandra Bannan - Teacher
- Cynthia Dorie - Teacher

FAMILIES FIRST PROGRAM

Intensive in-home counseling service for families in crisis. Teaching Family Homes' Family Specialists directly work with these families to build upon their strengths, teach new skills and keep them together as a functional and vital family unit.

-Western Upper Peninsula

- Nicole Ubinger - Supervisor
- Thurza Mathes - Gogebic/Ontonagon County
- Roberta Swanson - Gogebic/Ontonagon County
- Pam Pouttu - Houghton/Keewenaw/Baraga County

-Central Upper Peninsula

- Carrie Wehmanen - Supervisor
- Ian Juntunen - Marquette County
- Christine Sommers - Dickinson/Iron County
- Dyan Engel - Menominee County
- Julie Johnson - Marquette County
- Jeremy Munger - Delta County

FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAM

Family Support Program (FSP) is a home-based program that provides a range of services to families including parenting skills education, family, individual, marital instruction, and/or life/home management skills. The Family Support Program (FSP) provides individualized family interventions. Family Support Program focuses on the family’s strengths. The family is regarded as the expert in identifying their needs and the family is a fundamental part of the development of the service plan. The Family Support Worker (FSW) and the family will work together to achieve the family’s goals.

Family Support Program (FSP) is a voluntary program.  FSP is a time limited services (up to six months) and requires a minimum of two face-to-face hours a week with the families. The Family Support Program (FSP) worker will meet in the family’s home during times that are convenient for the family.

- Mary Carter - Program Manager, Alger County
- Steve Rudness - Program Manager, Ontonagon County
- Nicole Wachter - Alger County Family Support Worker
- Terry Carlson - Ontonagon County Family Support Worker

JUVENILE JUSTICE Diversion and Reintegration Alternatives (JJDRA) - Chippewa County

Established to preserve families and avoid out-of-home placement, with a dynamic approach to intervention in the lives of delinquent youth and their families. This program also assists transitions from placement to a home environment. Trained staff work with each youth, helping them reintegrate back into their home town while providing educational opportunities through school and community resources.

- Ron Saari - Supervisor
- Rebeckah Zaragoza - Community Treatment Worker

COUNSELING & ASSESSMENT SERVICES

Teaching Family Homes provides general counseling services to children and adults. Accepting most insurances, therapists are available in our Marquette and Escanaba offices.

- Mary Carter, LMSW - Supervisor
- Robin Bailey-webb, LLMSW - Therapist, Delta County

FOSTER CARE

Teaching Family Homes has safe and secure homes for children who need more specialized care than they can receive in a traditional foster care placement.  Foster Care Workers provide services in the home with the parent and the youth.  They facilitate the establishment of home rules, consistent discipline, positive and negative consequences, as well as to assist parents with other barriers to family reunification.

-Jerry Migda - Program Manager
-Jan Beauchamp - Foster Care Worker

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