White Pine's Staff and Consultant Team
White Pine Consulting Service works with a cadre of consultants from across the State to address the training and technical assistance needs of organizations and agencies on an individual, regional, and statewide basis. Each consultant has extensive experience working with collaborative systems of care in Wisconsin; several consultants also have experience on a national level.
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Following is a summary of our primary consultant team. Consultants with specialties in additional areas may be involved depending on training and consultation needs and availability.
Lori is Co-Director of White Pine Consulting Service. She and her team support counties and tribes in the development and expansion of collaborative systems of care for children and adults with multiple needs and their families. White Pine also provides training and consultation in the areas of the Coordinated Services Teams (CST), Comprehensive Community Services (CCS), team development, conflict management, leadership, and strategic planning. Lori is the developer of the statewide Collaborative Systems of Care website, www.wicollaborative.org. Lori also coordinates a six-county Regional CCS program, supporting the vision to “improve health outcomes in Central Wisconsin by expanding access to behavioral health services”. In this role, she supports the Regional CCS Coordinating Committee and efforts related to training, quality improvement, and data management; and is the developer of the Central Wisconsin Health Partnership website: www.cwhpartnership.org. Lori has served on the State’s Children Come First Advisory Board, and as Secretary of the Sunny Day Child Care and Preschool Board of Directors. |
Since 1999, Phil has served central Wisconsin through private community-based mental health agencies as well as administrative roles among counties, both as the Clinical Services Manager in Adams County HHSD and Deputy Director of Green Lake County DHHS. In these roles he helped establish and chair the Central WI Health Partnership (CWHP), a progressive forum composed of leadership of human services, public health, and the federally qualified health center across six counties. See more As Co-Director for White Pine Consulting Service and Director of Behavioral Health Integration for Family Health / LaClinica, FQHC, Phil is excited to support the expansion of collaborative systems of care for the benefit of all people and communities across Wisconsin. He specializes in the development of team- based interventions; Coordinated Services Teams, Comprehensive Community Services, and Medication Assisted Treatment. Phil holds a Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work, a Master’s in Psychology & Religion, and Bachelor’s studies in Psychology and Art. His best teachers are people with lived experience and his children. |
In private practice Jes specializes in perinatal mood disorders, substance abuse/addiction, sex offender treatment, couples counseling, and mood disorders. Jes offers unique services in that a majority of the treatment takes place in the community, nature, or the client home. She also contracts and consults with local practitioners and several agencies around the state of WI. Jes has presented to a variety of audiences on topics including: assessing and managing suicide risk, crisis planning, State of WI codes, AODA, and documentation/note writing. |
She is often found juggling her various roles in community committees, teaching faith formation, singing in the church choir, chairing Music Boosters, and being a core-team member for the local chapter of Sleep in Heavenly Peace. All of this becomes second to her most prized role - working with her husband in raising their three teenagers. |