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Our Staff:
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Karen Koenigsberg is Program Coordinator/Family Navigator for the Get Connected Family Resource Center. She was born and raised in Connecticut, joined the Marine Corps when she was 20, moved to Maryland in 1986, and is a single mom with two children with Fragile X Syndrome, a daughter and a son both in their twenty's. Karen worked as a volunteer at Infants and Toddlers when it first began in Carroll County, visiting doctors in the area to explain the program. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience working with the school system on individual education plans (IEP's), transitioning, the Post Secondary Program, day programs and employment. Other positions she has held has been as a special education secretary, after which she worked for six years with the Community Learning Center after school programs. She worked and volunteered with C.H.A.N.G.E. Inc., and served on the Carroll County Therapeutic Recreation Council for about eighteen years in a variety of capacities--secretary, vice-president, president, and coordinator. Karen has worked with Special Olympics Carroll County as a volunteer and a coach. She is current member of Kiwanis and on the board for Voices for Children.
Karen's goals for her children are for them to be independent and happy at what they are doing in life. |
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Betsy Ensor is a Family Navigator for the Get Connected Family Resource Center. She became passionate about assisting parents and children with educational, mental health and substance abuse resources over 22 years ago after her son was diagnosed with ADHD at an early age, and later with Asperger’s Syndrome. Along with her personal experiences, Betsy has over ten years of expertise working with children and adolescents in the support room at Robert Moton Elementary School. In her free time, Betsy enjoys spending time with her six grandchildren, reading, quilting and volunteering at her church in Westminster.
Betsy’s vision is to “start a child in the way they should go and when they are old they will not turn from it.” |
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Rhonda Johnson is married and has two children, a daughter age 16 and a son age 13. Rhonda has been a stay at home mom and says "I will never regret spending all those years taking care of my children and watching them grow."
As her children grew older, Rhonda decided to join the community as a hotline volunteer at Rape Crisis Intervention Services (RCIS) in 2001. This required many hours of carrying a pager in the evenings and on weekends, responding to phone calls, and going to the hospital or police department in order to give support to victims of sexual abuse. Within a few years, Rhonda was asked to join Rape Crisis as an employee. She was quoted to have said, "When I stopped working after my daughter was born, I vowed that if I ever went back, it would be to do something that I felt good about. I feel better than good about my work with RCIS - I'm proud of myself, I'm fulfilled."
Rhonda started out as a first responder and moved her way up to the volunteer coordinator position before she resigned in Spring 2006.
From there she thought she might want to get out of crisis work and do a 9 to 5 job. That did not meet her internal needs to nurture, help, and support others. So joining Get Connected Family Resource Center as a Family Navigator was a great fit. "This is where I belong, working with people and supporting others."
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