Meet Luz Maria Gallardo, Office Support Specialist Lead
Meet Luz Maria Gallardo, Office Support Specialist Lead, who loves seeing how even small interactions at the front desk can make a big impact.
Profiles
Meet Brenda Kinoshita, Individual Giving Officer
Meet Brenda Kinoshita, Individual Giving Officer, gardener, and kitchen adventurer. With experience working in development and fundraising at several local nonprofits, Brenda joined the LifeWorks NW team last fall.
Meet Jen Rothrock-Dickinson, Human Resources Recruiting Specialist
Meet Jen Rothrock-Dickinson, Human Resources Recruiting Specialist, LifeWorks NW advocate, and mindfulness maven. She joined LifeWorks NW more than four years ago. Jen is often the friendly first point of contact for new staff members, starting with the job postings.
Meet Laurel Bosma, Mental Health Therapist
Laurel Bosma, Mental Health Therapist, is part of the Adult Outpatient team at our Rockwood site. She shares her thoughts on why and how she joined the LifeWorks NW team and a little about her life outside of work.
Meet Madison Kincaid, Mental Health Therapist
Meet Madison Kincaid: Therapist, team-based care enthusiast, and youth soccer coach. Madison joined LifeWorks NW almost three years ago, coming from a practicum at the Washington County jail.
Meet Echoe Reed, Peer Support Specialist
Meet Echoe Reed (she/per), Peer Support Specialist, advocate for LGBTQ youth, and student of philosophy. Echoe works with youth at LifeWorks NW.
Meet Cheryl Moten, Chemical Dependency Counselor
Cheryl supports women in our Project Network program as they recover from substance use disorders. Find out why she has spent more than 20 years supporting clients on their path to healing at LifeWorks NW.
Meet Gerald Peake, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
LifeWorks NW nurse Gerald Peake creates healing for animals and humans alike.
Meet Ben Jones, Maintenance Tech
Ben Jones works out of all of LifeWorks NW’s locations, traveling between the sites doing anything from filling potholes to making sure the heat is working. “I fix whatever problems occur,” Ben says. His …
Black History Hero: Emma
Today we’d like to introduce you to Emma, a Certified Recovery Mentor (CRM) at Project Network.
Black History Hero: Tesfaye
One of LifeWorks NW’s Black History Month Behavioral Health Heroes is Tesfaye. Tesfaye is Clinical Supervisor for our Recovery Empowerment Achievement in Life (REAL) program. REAL is a culturally focused …
LifeWorks NW’s Black History Month Hero
During Black History Month, we are honoring Black behavioral health heroes throughout the community and nation. In the process, we thought about the many heroes here at LifeWorks NW. Although …
60th Anniversary: Diane Benavides Wille
As part of our 60th-anniversary project, we talked with current employee, Diane Benavides Wille, who joined LifeWorks NW 15-years ago as a student intern. She then became one of LifeWorks …
60th Anniversary: Mark Spofford
As part of LifeWorks NW’s 60th Anniversary memory-capturing project, Dr. Mark Spofford agreed to talk with us about his 10 years at the agency, beginning in January 1988. “It’s been …