Calendar & Staff Listing
Calendar Updates
Fall 2009 :
Volunteer Clinical Psy PhD and LPC Intern Supervisors Needed
contact ksainz@bigskyfarm.4t.com
Registration for Fall 09/Spring'10 Home Schooler Days at Big Sky: families may register for one or all dates at $25 per day of classes/activities. **Please encourage donors to provide scholarships for families hit hard by the current financial state our nation is facing.
**Individual and Family services for families living with Autism/ASD/PDD are on an appointment basis - please contact K. Sainz for further information.
*There are currently no openings for full-time students living with Autism/ASD/PDD - However, interviews continue for the process of becoming part of the waiting list of students to be served in the future. We are donor-funding dependent, thus if more donations are provided, then more staff will be funded to allow more students into the programs.
New Special Education and Life Skills Mentor INTERN Applications / Interviews in Progress for Fall 2009 & Spring 2010 Entry into Service
Director K.Sainz available by appointment only 512-791-0354 katherinesai0354@aol.com
* LPC Counseling and Education Interns and Practicum Students are in service (including counseling for Siblings & Parents of individuals living with autism, and Advocates who serve individuals living with special needs)
Our Team
(Fall 2009 / Spring 2010 Academic and Mentor Staff Interviews in Progress)
2009 Intervention Consultants:
General Clinical Psychology Consultation via New Life Institute: Ray Hawkins, PhD
Psychiatric Clincial Consultation via New Life Institute: Jim Kreisl, MD
Bereavement / Dissociative Disorder / Trauma Consultation via Joan Offerle, PhD
Staff:
Steve Sugarman, MA, Chief of Operations and Organizational Structure & Executive Director of International Humanities Center www.ihcenter.org
Katherine Ann Roe Sainz, MA, MS, Director of Education and Intervention Programs, Lead Educator and Intervention Specialist
Jeri Lynn Warren, Medical Science and Social Studies Educator for NT School and Sibling Education
Loriana Machabee, Sign Language Mentor
Camilo Garcia, Lead Life Skills Mentor & Basic Academics NT School Tutor
Victoria Thompson, Social-Peer Skills Mentor Trainee
Joan Kiefer, Life Skills / Social Skills Developmental Pathology Mentor
Visiting Life Skills Mentor Volunteers are comprised of Region XIII educators, Temple College interns, and experienced classroom aides
Cindi Leveridge, MA Student/Family PsychoEducation Consultant-Specialist, and Consulting Equine Assisted Psychotherapist
Now Accepting Inquiries for Volunteer and Paid Academic and Fine Arts Teachers
New Advisory Board Forming - Contact Director for Application for membership
Advisory Board Members:
Dr. N. Lee Callaway (neuroscientist, pharmacist, therapist)
Dr. Laurence Becker (Educator, Author, Advocate)
Miss Nikaela Valentina Roe Sainz (Neurotypical Sibling of Individual w/PDD)
Tom Ibis (Parent of a child with ASD/PDD)
