Teaching Family Homes - Contact & Locations

-Locations & Contact Information-

CAMPUS CENTER Group Homes
1000 Silver Creek Rd, Marquette MI 49855
(906)-249-5437 Fax: 249-5438
Toll Free: 1- 800-292-5260

SAULT STE. MARIE OFFICE
P.O. Box 137
121 Maple St. Suite B
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783
(906) 632-1740

IRONWOOD OFFICE
201 N. Douglas Blvd
Ironwood, MI 49938
(906) 932-6272

ESCANABA OFFICE
1100 Ludington Street, Suite 204
Escanaba, MI 49829
(906) 789-9890

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
- Jerry Migda, LPC - Chief Operations Officer
- Joleen Baysore - Office Manager
- Mike Smith - Events Coordinator/Facilities Manager
- Kristina Balzarini - Quality Assurance Specialist/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

- Ann Crandell, LMSW - Residential and Clinical Director
- Lindsay Downs - Family Specialist

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.

- Jamie Dieterle Armatti - Consultant/Social Service Worker
- Tanya Warren - Social Service Aide
- Mark Holliday - Program Manager
- Laura Ceccarelli - Special Education Teacher

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.

- Ann Crandell - Consultant/Social Service Worker
- Jamie Dieterle Armatti - Social Work Supervisor
- Chris and Val Sevegney - Family Teachers

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.

- Kathy Bengtson - Consultant/Social Service Worker
- Jamie Dieterle Armatti - Social Work Supervisor
- Dan and Katie Shula - Family Teachers
- Jason Parks - 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.

- Ann Crandell - Social Service Worker
- Mike Smith - Consultant
- Gabe and Tiffany Green- 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
- Shannon McCann - Program Manager
- Cynthia Dorie - Teacher

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 Armatti - Consultant
- Sandra Bannan - 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

- Sonnie Gobert - Supervisor
- Alicia Beauchamp - Marquette County
- Christine Sommers - Dickinson/Iron County
- Dyan Engel - Menominee County
- Carrie Wehmanen - Marquette County
- Shannen Villeneuve - 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.

- Jerry Migda - Program Manager, Alger County
- Ann Crandell - Program Manager, Ontonagon County
- Nicole Wachter - Alger County Family Support Worker
- Shannon Tucker - 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.

- 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.

- Kathy Bengtson - Coordinator/Supervisor
- Jan Beauchamp - Foster Care Worker

HOME-BASED INTERVENTION SERVICES

Teaching Family Homes in conjunction with Marquette County Probate/Family & Juvenile Court provides intervention services to high risk families using the Building Skills in High-Risk Families model program from Boys Town. This program assists the local courts by recommending placement based on the individual child/children's situation.

- Jay Killmar - Social Worker