Employee Spotlight

Congrats to April's Employee Spotlight recipients Chris Cellmer and Tracey Wallstrum. Thank you for sharing your dedication and passion with the people we support!

Congrats to March Employee Spotlight recipients, Celeste Badke, Stacey Greene, and Robin Elliott. We appreciate the creativity and passion you bring each and every day!

Congrats to February's Employee Spotlight recipient, Gail Ogden. We appreciate your attentiveness to everyday opportunities that lead to increased independence for people enrolled in the Discovery program!

Congrats to January’s Employee Spotlight, Donna Wallin, and Team Spotlight Celeste Badke, Meredith, Pfennig, Misty Forman, Kelsey Tofteland, Brenda Just, and Robin Elliott. We appreciate the dedication you bring each day!

Congrats to December’s Employee Spotlight recipients Amanda Duke, Gaylene Desjarlais, Madison Stephens, and Maria Leidholt. We appreciate your passion and commitment you bring every day!  

The CQL workgroup set very ambitious goals designed to improve processes and services for people enrolled in Kalix programs. Every team member has been actively working on one of more sub-groups on each of the initiatives (using the discovery process in planning meetings, goal training and monitoring, POM training and monitoring, staff training initiatives, etc.), meeting regularly to report on progress and implementation. Each initiative is already having an impact, and will continue to strengthen our performance as an agency. Thanks to each team member for committing your time and energy to this project!

Congrats to October's Team Spotlight- Ashleigh, Rhonda, and Mickie for facilitating a volunteer effort at the Hostfest. A fellow volunteer noted that she appreciated the support and encouragement from the team, which made it a great experience!

Congrats to Ashley Flom for receiving September’s Employee Spotlight. When a riding mower quit working down at East Totten Trail (we have a contract to mow and maintain two campgrounds near Lake Sakakawea), Ashley figured out how to get the inoperable mower on to a trailer and to a nearby shop to be serviced, and... Read More

Congrats to August’s Employee Spotlight recipients, Megan Buee and Chelsea Nelson. A few months after implementation of the SIS-based payment system in April 2018, we had long lists of discrepancies, missing documents, and outstanding payments. Megan worked with a contact at the Department of Human Services payment office, DDPMs, and RCs to figure out how... Read More

Congrats to July’s Employee Spotlight, Davian Olson, and Team Spotlight, Barb Anderson & Kayla Andrade! Barb & Kayla assisted a new employee working at a community job to develop ways to do tasks that worked for her. They also worked with the employer to organize and modify the work environment to make job tasks more... Read More