Ann K. Schumacher, LSCSW
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.