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 Agency wins best place to work award
July 21, 2010
The agency won the Cincinnati Business Courier's Best Place to Work Award for the first time, which was announced at a luncheon November 11. Winning in the Grand category for employers with over 600 employees, competition included Fifth Third Bank and Christ Hospital. "Awards like this don’t just happen," said Cheryl Phipps, Superintendent, "It takes all of us working together to accomplish a very important mission...which we do everyday by providing exemplary service to people with developmental disabilities."
 Rost School welcomes new administrators
July 21, 2010
Margaret B. Rost School will welcome a new Principal, Duerk Zinn, and Educational Administrator, Kim Martindell, for the 2011 school year. Zinn has been with the agency for seven years, first as a Behavior Support Specialist, then as Director of Beckman Adult Center. He has a masters degree in Special Education from Xavier University. “Duerk and Kim are great additions,” said Kim Hauck, Director of Children’s Services. “Their varied ex¬periences will bring something new to the school.” Martindell has been an instructor, most recently at the Reading Hilltop Satellite classroom, since 2002. She has a masters degree in Educational Administration from Xavier University. “I am excited to be at Rost,” said Martindell, “I can’t wait for the start of the school year!”
 Coming Together Conference a success
July 13, 2010
Coming Together, a conference about supporting people with co-occurring mental health issues and developmental disabilities, was held on June 29 at Vineyard Church. Nearly 300 people from five counties attended the conference, which featured keynote speakers Tonier Cain and Scott Osterfeld. "It was a great source of information," said Preston Bartlett, Behavior Support Specialist, "I was glad to see so many agencies coming together to learn more about people with co-occurring mental health issues and developmental disabilities." The conference also featured break-out sessions about trauma and brain development, autism and co-occurring issues, the legal system and people with co-occurring issues and more. More than ten mental health and developmental disabilities organizations worked together to plan the conference, which was sponsored by a grant from the Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities Coordinating Center of Excellence in Columbus. The committee plans on continuing the event next year.
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