The Embrace Life team believes by introducing the team who are essential to the support of the day-to-day operations of the agency, also provides transparency to the community and guides trust to those looking for these types of services. With multiple years of experience over a variety of departments, together, Embrace Life strives to reach our Mission, Vision and Values for the members who are supported, and for the inclusive community to grow together for years to come.
Directors
OPERATIONS TEAM
Directors
Amber
Executive Director
3 Years
Amber's role is the Executive Director for program operations.
Amber oversees all Residential Programs, Day Programs, and HCBS services in all regions. This includes supervising the East, North, and West programs directors to ensure they meet Embrace Life's weekly expectations for program operations. These operational duties include transportation, vehicle, and house maintenance, maintaining healthy grocery supplies for the program, and addressing issues raised by employees or guardians.
Amber oversees a Day Program Director who manages several Day Program operations in the Phoenix area, as well as the Deaf Department.
Amber also supervises the HCBS departments, ensuring that providers submit all required support documentation to the Quality of Care Department.
Alexxia
East Valley Director
New
This position Director oversees several residential programs to ensure the program managers meet Embrace Life's weekly expectations for program operations. These operational duties include transportation, vehicle, and house maintenance, training, maintaining healthy grocery supplies for the program, and addressing issues raised by employees or guardians.
Alejandro
West Valley Director
New
This position Director oversees several residential programs to ensure the program managers meet Embrace Life's weekly expectations for program operations. These operational duties include transportation, vehicle, and house maintenance, training, maintaining healthy grocery supplies for the program, and addressing issues raised by employees or guardians.
Lashonda
Director of Day Program (Phoenix and surrounding cities),
5 years
This position, Director, oversees several Day Programs in Maricopa County to ensure that program managers meet Embrace Life's weekly expectations for program operations. These operational duties include transportation, vehicle, and program maintenance, training, program monthly activities, and addressing issues raised by employees or guardians.
Position vacant
Director for Deaf Programs
Vacant
The Deaf Director oversees six residential programs, a day program, and HCBS services to ensure the program managers meet Embrace Life's weekly expectations for program operations. These operational duties include transportation, vehicle, and house maintenance, training, maintaining healthy grocery supplies for the program, and addressing issues raised by employees or guardians.
OPERATIONS TEAM
Jose
Human Resources
5 years
Jose began his journey with the agency in 2020. The role of Human Resources encompasses overseeing HR practices, processes, and strategies. Key responsibilities include managing recruitment, planning and implementing staff training programs with Training Supervisor, and ensuring adherence to best practices and company policies. Additionally, HR handles sending welcome emails, reviewing employee handbooks, updating employee benefits, and addressing legal matters related to the employee code of conduct and ethical concerns.
Justin
Project Manager
7 YEARS
With nearly a decade of experience at Embrace Life, Justin Gregory is our project manager, a professional in project management. Project managers are responsible for the planning, procurement, and execution of a project in any undertaking that has a defined scope, start, and finish for the agency.
Pamela
Quality of Care Supervisor
4 years
Joey
Human Resource for the Deaf
New
Due to the large number of deaf employees working at Embrace Life, the company established a Deaf Human Resources representative. The role of Human Resources encompasses overseeing only the Deaf department's HR practices, processes, and strategies. HR addresses legal matters related to the employee code of conduct and ethical concerns.
Karen
Network Supervisor
2 years
Karen's role as our Agency Network Supervisor. Karen coordinates with all State direct referrals to ensure that newly enrolled members meet the necessary requirements. This includes reviewing all support documentation from State Support Coordinators or parents before assigning new cases to HCBS Coordinators across Arizona.
Vacant
Administrative Operations Specialist
New
Position description coming soon.
Ruth
Employee Compliance Supervisor
3 years
Ruth oversees our administrative support staff. She ensures that they complete all required background check documentation during the onboarding process and that new hires finish their training within the specified timeframe before working in the field.
Carrie
Agency Compliance Officer
5 years
Carrie has over 15 years of experience in the DDD community primarily in the residential department and as a former ADH provider. Agency Compliance Officer is a designated an officer within a government agency responsible for ensuring that the agency adheres to all applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies, particularly related to areas like equal employment opportunity and contracting procedures, by monitoring state compliance, investigating potential issues, and taking corrective actions when necessary; essentially acting as the point of contact for compliance matters within Embrace Life agency.
Joseph
Owner/Chief Executive Officer
10 years
Joe has been employed with a variety of agencies for many years in different roles and has participated in multiple volunteer organizations supporting members.