Professional Affiliations

Ann works as a clinical social worker in a community mental health center which services the rural and frontier region of Western Kansas. She received her bachelors in social work at Kansas State University and masters in social work at the University of Denver, then went on to obtain clinical level licensure.

NARMH Positions

Ann has been a NARMH member since 2002 and was elected to the board in 2004. She currently serves as board secretary. She is a past conference chairperson and is an associate editor for the journal.

Rural Mental Health Involvement and Contributions

Ann lives in a frontier region of Western Kansas with her three children. She remains closely involved with the farming and agriculturally based industry. She is a clinical social worker with over 15 years of experience providing mental health services in the public sector. She has worked in a wide variety of settings working with the culturally and economically diverse population of the agriculturally based rural and frontier communities of Western Kansas. Her experience includes providing school social work services, home health services, outpatient mental health services, director of Family Based Services for Southwest Kansas/Foster Care Privatization Contract, director of a local area inpatient psychiatric unit, and she also worked as a behavioral health provider to successfully integrate mental health into a primary medical care setting in Western Kansas. Ann is committed to being instrumental to improving behavioral health care in rural and frontier areas.