ESU 9 New Staff - Mental Health Practitioners Spotlight
ESU 9 is excited to welcome many new staff members for the 2019-2020 school year. Over the next few months, we will spotlight new staff and programs. This month's focus is our Mental Health Practitioners. Please welcome these new staff members to the ESU 9 area when you see them in your schools!
Leisel Hogan - Licensed Mental Health Practitioner. She will be serving Doniphan-Trumbull, South Central Unified and Silver Lake. Leisel lives in Hastings with her three kiddos and two elderly pups. Prior to joining ESU9, she worked in private practice primarily focusing on at risk youth involved in the juvenile probation, foster care, and/or court systems. She has experience in a wide range of areas including but not limited to drug and alcohol abuse/dependence, depression, anxiety, peer relations, trauma, grief, self-harm, and family distress.
Carolyn Haney - Licensed Mental Health Practitioner. She will be serving Kenesaw Schools. Carolyn has a Masters degree in Social Work and has been a licensed mental health provider since 2003. Her practice experience is varied, including community readiness, working with children who have developmental disabilities and their families, adults with disabilities in an advocacy role, and in early child hood mental health. Ms. Haney has taught undergraduate and graduate social work students for over 19 years and was the school social work certification coordinator during this time. She has expertise in early childhood mental health (birth to age 8) and co-taught the early childhood mental health certificate courses with a colleague in Counselor Education.
She enjoys working as a team and believe that relationships are the key to being an effective team member.
While originally from Chadron, Nebraska, she spent twenty years in Wyoming prior to moving to Kearney in 2016. She and her husband have three girls, the oldest is a geologist and lives in Colorado, the middle daughter is in middle school and the youngest is in 5th grade.
Ms. Haney enjoys being outdoors, serving as her daughter’s Girl Scout leader, reading, knitting and spending time with her family
Madeline Svoboda - School Psychologist Intern. She will be serving Blue Hill and Superior. Madeline graduated from Hastings Senior High School and Hastings College. She is excited to be with ESU9 for her final internship year of the School Psychology, Ed.S program at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
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