Citizens Who Care, Inc.

STAFF

Ken Wagstaff, Executive Director
Cheri Kerr, Administrative Assistant
Diane Bamforth, R.N., Assessment Nurse, Davis
Susan McGibbon, R.N., Assessment Nurse, Woodland
Ellie Slaven, Volunteer Director
Venetia Cotter, Time-Off Program Director
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Executive Director

Ken Wagstaff joined the staff of Citizens Who Care as Executive Director in September 2005. Ken brings almost 40 years of experience in health care management and policy, including service as executive director of the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance from 1983-1992, a year as state Director of Mental Health, and chief of managed care operations at Medi-Cal until 2000. Ken assisted with the early formation of CWC during the 1980's and has been a winter concert volunteer. He was Mayor of Davis from 2000-2002, and continues involvement in civic affairs. Ken and his wife Diane are 39-year residents of Davis, where their two children were raised. Their daughter and son-in-law, with three children, also now reside in Davis. Their son lives and works in London.

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Administrative Assistant

Cheri Kerr is our Administrative Assistant. Cheri has had 10 years of experience in the non- profit sector having worked for Yolo Hospice prior to coming to Citizens Who Care. Cheri who grew up and lives in Woodland has two grown boys. Cheri is excited to be working for CWC and feels she has 'found her niche'.

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Assessment Nurse for Davis

Diane Bamforth was appointed to the position of Assessment Nurse for Davis in April 2006. Diane, a seven-year resident of Davis, spent three years as coordinator of in-home respite and quality assurance for Summer House in Woodland.

She graduated with honors from University of Hull, took her post-graduate degree from Sheffield School of Nursing and received United Kingdom nurse certification. Diane holds a State of California certificate in community care administration. Her community activities include early child education and docent work with the Mondavi Center. With over twenty-five years' experience as a family nurse practitioner, nursing educator and health administrator, Diane comes well-qualified to assess the needs of CWC's Davis clientele.

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Assessment Nurse for Woodland

Susan McGibbon joined the Citizens Who Care staff as Assessment Nurse in 1989. She hails from Montreal, Canada, where she graduated from the McGill University School of Nursing with a degree in Public Health Nursing Administration and Supervision in 1971. Married in 1968, she and her physician husband settled in Woodland in 1974, where he practiced Ob-Gyn for 28 years with her steadfast support.

In addition to raising their 4 children, she has been past President of the Yolo County Medical Society Auxiliary and Woodland GATE PTA, past Captain of the Yolo Fliers Club Niners, and member of numerous Woodland education committees. She has also managed to maintain her hobbies, including music, gardening, swimming, reading, skiing, cooking, and travel.

She and her husband delight in following the careers of their children, in-laws, and grandchildren in Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, and Madrid, Spain.

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Director of Volunteers

Ellie Slaven says: I was born in Massachusetts and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Most of my life has been spent in California where I moved when I got married. I have attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and California State University Sacramento. I have three children. When my youngest was 5 years old, I returned to the work force and became the Volunteer Coordinator for Citizens Who Care. This was in 1997 and I have been with CWC ever since. Prior to having children, I worked in the insurance industry. I enjoy reading, socializing, sports - Go Kings!! and spending time with my family.

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Time-Off Program Director

Venetia Cotter is the Program Director for Time Off for Caregivers. She worked for Feedback Foundation in Orange County, where she served the elderly in an interactive program of daily social visits and supervised volunteers in a daily meal-delivery program for homebound elders. She was a photographer and crew supervisor for a school portrait company in the Los Angeles area for 10 years. Venetia spent many years as a full-time parent, a church and school volunteer, and a perpetual student. In 1998, Venetia and her husband, Tom, moved to Northern California so that she could pursue a Bachelor of Science in Horticulture at UC Davis. Venetia has many interests, including quilting, walking, theatre, films, art, music, cooking, reading, writing bad poetry, antique-hunting, gardening, and exploring small towns. She lives with her husband in Davis, California. They have five children and three grandchildren.

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