MEET OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT

Our HR Department's Philosophy

We provide resources and collaborative learning to our partners, employees and members of the community that are empowering, inclusive, responsive and innovative.

Our Department Staff

Human Resources Staff

jamie.stevens@cornerstonesofcare.org
(816) 508-1768 or (816) 506-2134
Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

Jamie joined Cornerstones of Care in July of 2022 as the Director of Human Resource Operations before being promoted to Chief Human Resource Officer. Jamie is responsible for leading organizational change initiatives, and creating a strong organizational culture which is supportive of employees and the work they do. She is also responsible for setting policy and ensuring compliance with a range of employment and regulatory practices essential to leading the organization's strategy. Her goal is to support each team member by improving culture and increase retention to attract talent.

Prior to Cornerstones of Care, Jamie served at area nonprofit organizations for more than 21 years. Her passion and dedication for serving others who serve on the frontline is the driving force behind her love of human resources. Most recently, she served as Senior Director of Human Resources at Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas.

melissa.taylor@cornerstonesofcare.org 
(913) 205-0495 
Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

Responsible for:

  • Directly overseeing the HR team.
  • Handling employee-relations coaching and development.
  • Managing external broker/consultant relationships.
  • Overseeing all benefits and compensation practices.
  • Coordinating open enrollment.
  • Overseeing regulatory and employment practice compliance.
  • Overseeing the HRIS system.
  • Assisting leadership with annual budget management.
  • Assisting in development and implementation of strategic plans.
  • Striving to streamline HR processes. 

genia.boyle@cornerstonesofcare.org  
(913) 608-2393  
Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus 

Responsible for: 

  • Reporting for HR and requests from leadership 
  • Manage the New Team Member Tracker 
  • Coordinate HR projects (meetings, training, surveys etc.) and minutes 
  • Assist with Audits 
  • Clerical and administrative support to Human Resources leadership 
  • Monitor the HR Services email and HR fax accounts 
  • Maintenance of HR Intranet Page 

    kasie.robinette@cornerstonesofcare.org    
    (913) 608-2393  
    Cornerstones of Care — KCK Campus 

    Responsible for:  

    • HR needs for all employees    
    • Coaching and Mentoring  
    • Reinforcing Agency Policies  
    • Audits  
    • Employee Relations    
    • Compensation  
    • Compliance    
    • Performance Management, Reviews  
    • Maintenance of HR Intranet Page – Job Descriptions  
    • Recruitment, Selection processes & Job Offers, Job Fairs  
    • Terminations  
    • Oversight on Workman’s Comp  
    • Oversight on NEO timelines  
    • FMLA  
    • PHL (Personal Health Leave)  
    • Worker’s Compensation Claims  

    OPEN TALENT SPECIALIST POSITION 

    @cornerstonesofcare.org  
    Cornerstones of Care — KCK Campus 

    Responsible for: 

    • Assist Employees with HR Related Inquiries 
    • Attend Job Fairs 
    • Posting positions 
    • Recruitment 
    • Extending Job Offers 
    • New Team Member Onboarding 
    • Manage NEO timelines 
    • Manage the New Team Member Tracker 
    • Backgrounds and Fingerprints 
    • Assisting with Audits 
    • Equipment and Badge Distributions 
    • HRIS Access Issues 
    • Offboarding 
    • Exit Interviews 
    • Monitor the HR Services email and HR fax accounts 

    ryan.anderson@cornerstonesofcare.org  
     (816) 616-8501 
    Cornerstones of Care — KCK Campus 

    Responsible for: 

    • Assist Employees with HR Related Inquiries 
    • Employment Verification  
    • Unemployment  
    • Personnel File information  
    • Compliance  
    • HRIS Access Issues  
    • Update HRIS/Employee Records  
    • Assist with Audits  
    • Assist with Employee Relations Issues   
    • Backgrounds and MVRs  
    • Monitor the HR Services email and HR fax accounts  

    susanne.turner@cornerstonesofcare.org   
    (816) 853-1942  
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus 

    Responsible for: 

    • HR needs for all employees  
    • Coaching and Mentoring 
    • Reinforcing Agency Policies 
    • Audits 
    • Employee Relations  
    • Compensation 
    • Compliance   
    • Performance Management, Reviews  
    • Maintenance of HR Intranet Page – Job Descriptions  
    • Recruitment, Selection processes & Job Offers, Job Fairs  
    • Terminations  
    • Oversight on Workman’s Comp  
    • Oversight on NEO timelines  
    • FMLA  
    • PHL (Personal Health Leave)  
    • Worker’s Compensation Claims  

    maisy.pierson@cornerstonesofcare.org   
    (816) 541-0741  
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus 

    Responsible for: 

    • Assist Employees with HR Related Inquiries 
    • Attend Job Fairs 
    • Posting positions 
    • Recruitment 
    • Extending Job Offers 
    • New Team Member Onboarding 
    • Manage NEO timelines 
    • Manage the New Team Member Tracker  
    • Backgrounds and Fingerprints  
    • Assisting with Audits  
    • Equipment and Badge Distributions  
    • HRIS Access Issues  
    • Offboarding  
    • Exit Interviews  
    • Monitor the HR Services email and HR fax accounts  

    katina.tucker@cornerstonesofcare.org   
    (816) 507-2735  
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus 

    Responsible for: 

    • Assist Employees with HR Related Inquiries 
    • Employment Verification 
    • Unemployment 
    • Personnel File information 
    • Compliance 
    • HRIS Access Issues 
    • Update HRIS/Employee Records 
    • Assist with Audits 
    • Assist with Employee Relations Issues  
    • Backgrounds and MVRs  
    • Monitor the HR Services email and HR fax accounts  

    reza.soleymani-alizadeh@cornerstonesofcare.org   
    (913) 278-6086  
    Cornerstones of Care — Regional MO/Remote 

    Responsible for: 

    • HR needs for all employees  
    • Coaching and Mentoring 
    • Reinforcing Agency Policies 
    • Audits 
    • Employee Relations  
    • Compensation 
    • Compliance  
    • Performance Management, Reviews 
    • Maintenance of HR Intranet Page – Job Descriptions 
    • Recruitment, Selection processes & Job Offers, Job Fairs 
    • Terminations 
    • Oversight on Workman’s Comp 
    • Oversight on NEO timelines 
    • FMLA  
    • PHL (Personal Health Leave)  
    • Worker’s Compensation Claims  

    alisha.tuck@cornerstonesofcare.org   
    (913) 225-0621  
    Cornerstones of Care — Regional MO/Remote 

    Responsible for: 

    • Assist Employees with HR Related Inquiries 
    • Recruitment, Selection processes & Job Offers 
    • New Team Member On-boarding 
    • Job Fairs 
    • Personnel Files 
    • Posting positions 
    • Oversight on NEO timelines 
    • Reinforcing Agency Policies 
    • Employment Verification 
    • Update HRIS/Employee Records 
    • Assisting with Audits 
    • Recruitment-Interview scheduling 
    • Backgrounds and Fingerprints 
    • Equipment and Badge Distributions  
    • Exit interviews  
    • Compliance  
    • Monitor the HR Services email and HR fax accounts  


    Collaborative Learning & Training

    For collaborative learning and training-related questions, please email training@cornerstonesofcare.org. 

    Lesa.chandler@cornerstonesofcare.org 
    (816) 508-6205; Cell: (913) 449-3162 
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

    Lesa A. Chandler joined Cornerstones of Care in 2005; now, she has almost 40 years experience working with children and families. Currently the director of collaborative learning, she also serves as a Champion of Hope, implementing Sanctuary, a trauma-informed model of cultural change. Lesa has been a therapeutic foster parent, youth minister, conference presenter, training specialist and foster care director. She has presented at local, regional, and national workshops, including the Alliance for Children & Families, Foster Family-Based Treatment Association, Fostering Strategies for Change, and the Kansas Excellence in Supervision Conference. Her degrees are in Education and Communication from William Jewell College (B.A.), Central Missouri State University (graduate work), and Midwest Baptist Theological Seminary (M.R.E.). In her free time, Lesa enjoys bicycling, quilting, reading, working with teenagers, being outdoors, and regularly chaperoning her church's annual service trip with high school youth.

    amber.maledy@cornerstonesofcare.org 
    (816) 533-5136
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

    Amber Maledy is the training manager with Cornerstones of Care and serves on the agency’s WIDE committee, ensuring a commitment to diversity and inclusion within the organization. She has experience in child welfare, developmental disabilities, and trauma. She has been with Cornerstones of Care since 2015, working with children and families in the child welfare system. Prior to Cornerstones of Care, she worked with cancer patients at a cancer center and with individuals diagnosed with developmental disabilities in a supported living setting. Amber has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Columbia College and a Master’s in Social Work from UMKC. She has presented at international conferences, such as the Signs of Safety Gathering, and at national conferences, including Sanctuary Network Days and Netsmart’s Connections Event. She also won the Spirt of the Alliance award in 2016 for outstanding service to families and children.

    teri.schuler@cornerstonesofcare.org 
    (816) 508-6205  
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

    Teri Schuler joined Cornerstones of Care in 2019, after 30 plus years in the commercial/residential design industry. Although she hadn't worked in the nonprofit world before, Teri is dedicated to the idea of playing her part to improve the safety and health of families in need. She is an avid cyclist, runner, and most importantly, a mom.  

    ted.arrandale@cornerstonesofcare.org 
    (816) 812-8079   
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

    Ted joined The Collaborative Learning & Training Team in May 2016. Prior to that, he had been at our Ozanam Campus since 1998 in such roles as a manager, lead staff, and youth behavioral health specialist. Ted has also chaired the Ozanam Campus Sanctuary Training Committee. Ted's areas of expertise include intervening with a trauma-informed approach, understanding behaviors as trauma symptoms, and teaching how to use trauma-informed discipline. He has taught Safe Crisis Management, a trauma-informed behavior intervention system, for more than 20 years.He also trains other compliance-related trainings in addition to facilitating trainings for foster parents, school districts, and local conferences. When he isn't working, Ted enjoys spending time with his two sons and smoking pork butts and ribs; usually while listening to music.

    natasha.fletcher@cornerstonesofcare.org   
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

    Natasha Fletcher joined the Cornerstones of Care in 2017 helping individuals and families to become licensed foster parents before joining the Collaborative Learning & Training Department. She has experience in child welfare and corrections case management, including working with the Kansas Department of Corrections' male population at Lansing Correctional Facility and investigating child abuse and neglect through Missouri Children's Division. Natasha has a Master's Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Central Missouri. Through her graduate coursework, she had papers published on human trafficking and presented at a national conference on Missouri's preparedness in combatting human trafficking. She is currently a part of the Human Trafficking Task Force along with the ICWA Round Table in coalition with Missouri Children's Division. 

    jonathan.graham@cornerstonesofcare.org 
    (816) 508-3500
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

    Jonathan Graham joined Cornerstones of Care as a training specialist in 2023, but he started his training career in the animal field as a professional dog trainer. Jonathan studied canine behavior and body language for 11 years. He wants to take his training to the next level and in a different area, so decided he decided to finish his degree. He is currently working on a bachelor’s in Social Work with a minor in Psychology through Maryville University of St. Louis. Jonathan is also a treatment foster parent and has a thorough understanding of trauma-informed parenting and the support foster families and kids need.

    beth.harmon@cornerstonesofcare.org 
    (816) 255-4052
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

    Beth is a familiar face on the Collaborative Learning & Training team. She has been training and implementing the Sanctuary Model since 2009, and has presented twice at the Sanctuary Institute's training symposium and many regional and local conferences.Beth is an advocate for the children and families we serve and her other areas of expertise include recognizing behaviors as trauma symptoms, developing trauma-informed interventions for these behaviors, and working with children and adolescents suffering from adversity and trauma. When she is not working, you can find Beth on the spending time with family, on a golf course, or at a museum or library. 

    kathy.faaborg@cornerstonesofcare.org 
    (833) 958-1677
    Cornerstones of Care — KCK

    Kat Nicholson-Faaborg, has a BS degree in Psychology, Sociology, and Social Work from Peru State College, in Peru, Neb. Before becoming a training specialist with Cornerstones of Care, she spent almost 30 years working with children and families, primarily focusing on child welfare. Kat has worked in the child welfare arena in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and North Carolina. She was awarded the Nebraska Protection and Safety Worker of the Year in 2004 for outstanding work in Child Abuse/Neglect Investigations. Currently, Kat serves on the Cornerstones of Care Employment Relations Committee, ensuring a commitment to new and current team members within Cornerstones of Care and its affiliates. 

    kathleen.ramel@cornerstonesofcare.org 
    (573) 999-9665
    Cornerstones of Care — Gillis Campus

    Kathleen (Katie) Ramel joined Cornerstones of Care in 2022. She previously worked in emergency medicine as a paramedic, then transitioned to education, where she taught in public schools for over a decade. As a middle school reading, science, and math teacher, Katie was nominated as Teacher of the Year and developed a special interest in working with students with disabilities, with a trauma history, and students at risk. Katie was elected and currently serves on the Center School District Board of Education. She holds a B.A.E. from UMKC School of Education, where she served on the Delta team committed to social justice within the School of Education.

     
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