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Personnel Information
Alyssa Allen Alyssa and her husband Morgan have four children. Her eldest child is Gabrielle,9, who is a graduate of the Babies Can't Wait program. Cameron and Davis are Gabrielle's 7 year-old twin brothers. The newest addition is Carson, 15 months. Alyssa received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University. Prior to becoming a Parent Educator, she was a homemaker. She is currently the co-chair of her Local Interagency Coordinating Council, facilitates a parent resource group called S.N.A.P. (Special Needs Awareness Program) of Cherokee County and a supporting parent for Parent to Parent of Georgia. She is also the membership co-chair for the Down Syndrome Association of Atlanta, board member of Cherokee FOCUS and Exceptional Children's Chair for her PTA.	Alyssa

Heather Gay has a Bachelors of Liberal Arts with a minor in Health Science and a Masters degree in Physical Therapy. She has been married to Keith since 1997. They have one daughter, Darian, who was born in 1998 with mild Cerebral Palsy and who graduated from BCW. Darian has a younger brother, Evan, born in 2002. Heather works toward helping families find the information they desire and becoming a great support source for all families. Heather has been a Parent Educator since June 2000.	Heather, Keith, & Darian

Jerolee Oschack has a B.S. in Child development from the University of Georgia. She and her husband, Charlie Oschack, have two sons. Their oldest son, who is blazing new trails in educational services is home-schooled one day a week, does job training three days a week, and attends public school one full day and three afternoons a week. During the afternoons, he attends an automotive class that he loves. He is a surviving twin of an extremely premature birth. His twin sister lived 8 1/2 months in the NICU before she died of a lung infection. He spent 10 1/2 of his first 12 months in the hospital. Jerolee has been a volunteer, supporting parent for Parent to Parent and local service providers. She has also worked as an assistant in the development of the SCEIs training modules. Jerolee is the childcare coordinator for her local church. She also is a certified trainer for the PACE brain training program, and works with school aged children privately. Jerolee has been a Parent Educator since February 2000 and loves her job.	Jerolee

Terri Patterson Terri has a BA in Social Sciences with minors in Psychology and History. Since moving to Georgia with her husband, Matt, in 1996 she has stayed home with her daughter Molly, 9 and son Riley, 6, who was born with a bilateral profound sensorineural hearing loss at two months of age and fitted with hearing aids by 3 months. Riley received a Cochlear Implant at 12 months old. After graduating from the BCW program, he attended one of the Cobb County Deaf and Hard of Hearing Preschool Programs. Riley is currently succeeding in his general education first grade classroom and loves music and sports. Terri is a member of her district Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Initiative Committee, attends the State Advocacy Council on Newborn Hearing Screening due to her strong belief in the importance of early intervention. Terri is an avid participant in her local LICC on various committees. She regularly attends local, statewide and national conferences for children with special needs in order to learn as much as she can to support the families in her district with special needs children. She also presents a parent’s perspective at various local and statewide conferences to professionals, as well as to other parents concerning children with special needs. She enthusiastically began this position in December 2003.

Suzie Puckett has a BSN from Valdosta State University. She married her husband James in 1997. Prior to 2001, she worked as an RN in the Emergency Department in Valdosta. In October 2001, she became a homemaker when she had her twin boys, Matthew and Jacob. They both received speech and language therapy from BCW and graduated in October 2004. Suzie became a parent educator in November 2004. Her goal is to be a supportive liaison between parents of children with special needs and the many resources that are available to them.	Suzie, James, Matthew & Jacob

Sue Rowland is married to David Rowland and they have two children: Jonathan, nine and Julie, 13. Jonathan has multi-chamber hydrocephalus, seizure disorder, hemiplegia CP (right side), cortical vision loss and major speech deficits. He has had 31 neurosurgeries to date. The Rowlands reside in Albany, GA. Sue has a Masters Degree in Educational/Library Media from the University of Georgia. Her husband, David, is employed with the Department of Defense as head of the Legal Office at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany. David also attended the University of GA, where he received his law degree. Sue has been a Parent Educator since October 1998.

Alex Wright Alex lives in Dekalb County with her husband, David, and their three children Will (6 yrs old), Adam (4 years old) and Colin (2years old). She has a degree in Accounting from University of Maryland. She is also a CPA. Her oldest, Will, was diagnosed with Dyspraxia, an impairment or immaturity in the way that the brain processes information, which results in messages not being properly or fully transmitted. Will went through the Babies Can't Wait program and is currently receiving Speech and OT related services through Dekalb County Schools. Adam also has a speech delay and is also receiving services through Dekalb County Schools. Alex Co-Chairs the Dekalb ICC meetings which are held the last Wednesday of every month. In addition, Alex generates periodic newsletters which list upcoming events, trainings, and seminars. As the BCW Parent Educator for Dekalb County, Alex hopes to bring some of her experience and knowledge to other families of special needs children.
Project SCEIs Parent Educators

CONTACT INFORMATION
Parent Educator	Phone/Fax	Health District	Counties Served
Alyssa Allen allenblessings3@aol.com	770-517-9970 Phone/fax	1-2 Dalton	Cherokee, Fannin, Gilmer, Murray, Pickens, and Whitfield
Heather Gay heatherlea383@aol.com	912-826-6564 phone 912-844-9264 (cell) 912-921-7490 (fax)	9-1 Savannah	Chatham and Effingham
Lupita Huerta-Rodriguez planetlip@yahoo.com	770-517-8505 phone	N/A	Statewide Cultural Diversity Specialist
Sabrina Jordan Sabrinalampley@hotmail.com	770-774-9488 phone	3-2 Fulton	Fulton
Nichell Moore nichellmoore@hotmail.com	678-887-9716 phone 770-995-4439 fax	3-4 Gwinnett	Gwinnett, Newton, and Rockdale
Jerolee Oschack dk4me@prodigy.net	706-548-6765 phone/fax	10 Athens	Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Madison, Morgan, Oconee, Oglethorpe, and Walton
Terri Patterson terripat@earthlink.net	678-574-9082	3-1 Cobb	Cobb, Douglas
Suzie Puckett spuckett@vwave.net	229-242-8603 phone	8-1 Valdosta	Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Tift, and Turner
Sue Rowland suerowland@bellsouth.net	229-439-2282 800-430-4212 (BCW office)	8-2 Albany	Baker, Calhoun, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Miller, Mitchell, Seminole, Terrell, Thomas and Worth
Telmeko Smith-Ransom smith@cleola.com	678-344-0026 phone	3-3 Clayton	Clayton
Alex Wright alexwright106@hotmail.com	404-329-9575	3-5 Dekalb	Dekalb

If you would like information about becoming a Project SCEIs Parent Educator, please contact
Cheryl Rhodes (404-651-0162) at Project SCEIs.