Laura Gilman, LCSW, MSW, MA
Director of Social Work
Jewish Family Services
Laura holds a bachelor’s degree from Goucher College, a master’s degree in clinical social work from University of Maryland and a master’s degree in Jewish Communal Service from Towson University. She has worked in the field of aging for more than a decade, specializing in meaning making in the later stages of life and aging in and with community. Laura feels honored that her job allows her to journey with clients as they age and bear witness to their resilience and strength.
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Director of Social Work
Jewish Family Services
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Tara Wallace, MSW, LSCSW, CTF-CBT/PSB, RYT, SLC
Tara Wallace, MSW, LSCSW, CTF-CBT/PSB, RYT, SLC
Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker
Private Practice
Tara D. Wallace is a licensed specialist clinical social worker in private practice providing community-based trauma therapy for children. She is nationally certified in trauma focused- cognitive behavior and problematic sexual behavior, and trust-based relational intervention. She is also the CEO of a non-profit organization, Lighthouse Therapeutic Community Outreach Foundation which provides holistic wellness services to low-income and low-access communities.
Tara is actively involved in numerous boards and committees both locally and nationally. She serves on the Community Resources Council, Kansas Action for Children, Kansas Citizen Review Panel, Suicide Prevention Coalition. Tara is the Vice-President of the YWCA of NE Kansas Board of Directors and Advocacy Committee Co-chair, a member of Topeka Heartland Sertoma,Topeka KS Chapter of the Links Incorporated, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, and the NASW Social and Economic Justice & Peace Section Committee Chair.
She is a 2013 graduate of Washburn University’s School of Social Work, currently pursuing a doctorate in Community Care and Counseling from Liberty University with an emphasis in Traumatology.
https://lghthse.com/the-face-of-lighthouse-tco/
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Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker
Private Practice
Sara E. Batter, LICSW, LADC
Private Practice
Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and Clinical Social Worker
Sara E. Batter is a clinical social worker and alcohol and drug counselor whom has been working in the mental health field for the past 14 years. She obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Sara has been working as an outpatient therapist since 2013. In her private practice, Sara focuses on treating children and adolescents, but has experience working with a wide variety of clients and mental health issues.
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Private Practice
Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor and Clinical Social Worker
Amber Jewell, LMSW
School Social Worker-Speaker-Author-Coach-Therapist
School Social Worker and Private Practice
Amber Jewell, LMSW has been a social worker for over 15 years working with children, families, and individuals from all dynamics and life structures. She is a foster parent, adoptive parent, foster youth alumni, author, national speaker, and advocate for child welfare services across the country. Amber believes all people have the ability and right to live a life that helps them be the best versions of themselves. She excels at solution-focused services that build strengths for and within people.
https://www.amberjewell.org
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School Social Worker-Speaker-Author-Coach-Therapist
School Social Worker and Private Practice
Dina C. Larsen, CPHRM
Asst. Vice President/Sr. Risk Analyst/Admin Superv.
GB Healthcare
Dina Larsen has been with Western Litigation (currently Gallagher) since 2006. In her current role, Dina provides various risk and claim-related services to a large multi-hospital Risk Retention Group (RRG) and a Risk Retention Group for social workers.
Other of her responsibilities include assisting with claims and risk management; preparing statistical analysis and applicable reports reflecting claim and risk activity; interacting with risk managers at various facilities; participating in claims and risk subcommittee meetings; completing miscellaneous projects as requested; coordinating monthly risk management meetings in various locations throughout the U.S.; and serving as administrator for the online incident reporting system (R.L. Solutions) for several of the hospitals.
Dina also provides claim management and routinely answers calls on a national hotline service for the NASW Risk Retention Group. She also holds a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management (CPHRM) designation, which is an exclusive certification offered by the American Hospital Association (AHA) for healthcare risk managers. Ms. Larsen spent 18 years working as the main paralegal for a medical malpractice group of attorneys.
She was responsible for the preparation and maintenance of medical record summaries for specific files; reviewing all pleadings filed with courts or hearing processes; confirming legal citations and document citations; responsible for the office docketing system to ensure compliance with calendar deadlines and court rules; and working with co-defense counsel and clients on document preparation and production, and other items needed.
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Asst. Vice President/Sr. Risk Analyst/Admin Superv.
GB Healthcare
Elizabeth (Betsy) Cauble, Ph.D., MSW
President-Elect
NASW Insurance Company, NASWIC
Betsy retired from Kansas State University in May 2019. She served as Associate Social Work Program Coordinator from May 2015 to May 2019, following ten years as head of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Kansas State University. During her 25 years at KSU, Dr. Cauble taught every course in the social work curriculum. Her prior experience includes serving as a child welfare administrator at Franklin County Children's Services in Columbus, Ohio, as director of a hospital social work department, as a family therapist, custody mediator, research project director, and foster parent.
Betsy received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Colorado and her MSW and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her areas of interest include social work practice, public policy, ethical behavioral health practice, and child welfare.
NASW Involvement
NASW Board Member (2004-2007)
NASW Board Executive Committee (2006-2007)
Chair NASW Membership Committee (2005-2007)
NASW Board Representative to the National PACE Committee
NASW Insurance Enterprise Involvement:
President Elected, NASW Insurance Company, Board Director NASW RRG
President and Chair of NASW Assurance Services, Inc. Board of Directors (2012-2015)
Director of NASW Assurance Services (2009-2012)
Presenter for the NASW Assurance Services Risk Management Program.
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President-Elect
NASW Insurance Company, NASWIC
