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State Leaders

Mid-Atlantic Region: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC

Mid-West Region: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin

Mountain Plains: Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming

New England Region: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont

Southern Region: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia

Western Region: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington

Mid-Atlantic Region

Delaware Kimberly Huhn Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and their Families 302/633-2505 kimberly.huhn@state.de.us	District of Columbia Roberta Berry 202/744-1540 OR 301/638-1182 berryscsu@hotmail.com
Maryland No state leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.	New Jersey Donna Pressma Children's Home Society of New Jersey 609/203-2308 Dpressma@chsofnj.org
New York Kevin Walsh 518/482-2257 St. Catherine's Center for Children kwalsh@st-cath.org	Pennsylvania Carol Goertzel Pathways PA 610/543-5022 cgoertzel@pathwayspa.org

Mid-West Region

Illinois Illinois Randi Gurian The Harbour, Inc. 847/297-8540 x 122 randi@theharbour.org	Indiana Indiana Clara Anderson Children's Bureau, Inc. 317/264-2700 canderson@childrensbureau.org
Iowa Kim Schmett 515/244-0074 Coalition for Family & Children's Services in Iowa kim@iachild.org	Michigan No State Leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.
Minnesota No State Leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.	Missouri Wayne Crull Edgewood Children's Center 314/968-2060 wcrull@eccstl.org
Ohio Mark Mecum The Ohio Association of Child Caring Agencies, Inc. (OACCA) 614/461-0014 mmecum@oacca.org	Ohio Bryan Brown The Ohio Association of Child Caring Agencies, Inc. (OACCA) 614/461-0014 bbrown@oacca.org
Wisconsin Peggy Grimmer (taking a year off -2008) PATH-Wisconsin 608/663-1262 pgrimmer@pathinc.org	Wisconsin Becky Connell PATH 715/986-2422 bconnell@pathinc.org

Mountain Plains Region

Colorado Steve Ramirez Shiloh Home, Inc. 303/932-9599 shiloh@pcisys.net	Colorado Howard Shiffman Emily Griffith Center 303/237-6865 HPS825@aol.com
Colorado Beth Miller Emily Griffith Center 303/350-2731 beth.miller@griffithcenters.org	Kansas Steve Solomon The Farm, Inc. 785/749-2664 SteveS@the-farm.org
Montana Jim Fitzgerald Intermountain Children's Home and Services 406/442-7920 jimf@intermountain.org	Nebraska Jim Blue Cedars Youth Service 402/437-8812 jblue@cedars-kids.org
New Mexico Beverly Nomberg La Familia, Inc. 505/766-9361 ceo@la-familia-inc.org	New Mexico Julie Fallin New Mexico CASA Network 505/754-6138 casanet@newmex.com
North Dakota Bill Kerzman PATH North Dakota bkerzman@pathinc.org	Oklahoma No state leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.
South Dakota No state leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.	Texas Louella Steller Harris County Children's Protective Services 713/394-4067 louella_steller@co.harris.tx.us or Louellla.Steller@cps.hctx.net
Texas Estelle Teague Gardner-Betts Juvenile Center 817/282-5251 oestellet@aol.com	Texas George Ford Harris County Children's Protective Services 713/394-4064 george_ford@co.harris.tx.us
Utah Kelly Peterson Utah Foster Care Foundation 801/994-5205 Kelly@utahfostercare.org	Wyoming Sharon Weber Cathedral Home for Children 07/745-8997 Sweber@cathedralhome.org

New England Region

Connecticut Kenneth Fellenbaum Boys & Girls Village, Inc. 203/877-0300 x 102 fellenbaumk@boysvill.org	Maine Ken Olson KidsPeace Centers of New England 207/771-5712 kolson@kidspeace.org
Massachusetts Brian Condron The Home for Little Wanderers 617/927-0620 bcondron@thehome.org	Massachusetts (Acting) Eliza Wagner Children's Services of Roxbury 617/989-9447 ewagner@csrox.org
New Hampshire Jack Lightfoot Child and Family Services of New Hampshire 603/518-4145 Lightfootj@cfsnh.org	Rhode Island Lisa Guillette Rhode Island Foster Parent Association 401/781-1915 lisa.guillette@verizon.net
Vermont Steve Habif Vermont Children's Aid Society 802/655-0006 ext. 103 shabif@vtcas.org

Southern Region

Alabama Jacquelyn Davis-Fowler 205/510-2683 Gateway jdavis@gway.org	Arkansas Consevella James Treatment Homes 501/372-5039 cajames@treatmenthomes.org
Florida Tom Papin Hillsborough County, Department of Children's Services 813/264-3821 ext. 101 PapinT@HillsboroughCounty.org	Georgia Kathy Colbenson Chris Kids Atlanta 404/564-3401 Kathy.colbenson@chriskids.org
Kentucky No state leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.	Louisiana Laura Jensen Raintree Children Services 504/899-9045lajensen@bellsouth.net
Louisiana Theresa LaCaze-Smith Acadiana Youth, Inc. 337/237-1320 theresasmith@bellsouth.net	Mississippi Susannah Cherney Southern Christian Services for Children and Youth 601/354-0983 scscyrachel@bellsouth.net
North Carolina Frank Crawford Youth Homes 704/334-9955 fcrawford@youthhomesinc.org	South Carolina Jutta Young SC Department of Juvenile Justice 803/896-2284 jkyoun@scdjj.net
Tennessee Phil Acord Children's Home/Chambliss Shelter 423/698-2456 ppasb4@aol.com	Virginia No state leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.
West Virginia Tom Strawderman DHHR/Office of Social Services 304/558-2974 tstrawderman@wvdhhr.org

Western Region

Alaska No state leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.	Arizona Leah Landrum Taylor Arizona Children's Association 602/234-3733 LLandrum_Taylor@arizonaschildren.org
California Giuliana Halasz PACE Alternative Payment Program giulianamh@hsmc.com	California Neal Sternberg Victor Treatment Centers 530/893-0758 neal@victor.org
Hawaii Vicki Wallach PACT Hawaii 808/792-9703 or 800/847-3285 adminvwallach@pacthawaii.org	Idaho Mike Scholl Casey Family Programs - Boise Division 208/377-1771 mscholl@casey.org
Nevada No state leader at this time. Please check back soon or e-mail hillday@cwla.org.	Oregon Janet Arenz Oregon Alliance of Children's Programs 503/399-9076 janet@oregonalliance.org
Washington Laurie Lippold Children's Home Society of Washington 206/695-3200 LippoldLau@aol.com

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