Staff Directory
Kathy Fox, Executive Director
- Oversees Operations of Cooperative
- Prepares and Monitors Budget
- Works with L.E.A.S.E. Governing Boards
- L.E.A.S.E. Representative to Human Service Agencies
- Supervises Circuit Breaker School
- Pupil/Personnel Reimbursement
- Oversees IDEA Grants
Cross Categorical Coordinators:
Nicole Butt - Allen/Otter Creek, Streator Elementary, Streator High School
Melissa Cassidy - Dimmick, Earlville, Leland, Rutland, Wallace
DeeAnna Guerra - Deer Park, Grand Ridge, LaSalle Elementary, Lostant
Janelle Gustafson - Circuit Breaker School, Ottawa Elementary, Ottawa HS, Regional Safe School
Stephanie Allen - Serena Unit #2, Mendota HS, Oglesby, Seneca Elementary, Seneca HS, Waltham
Laura Levine - Marseilles, Peru Elementary, Putnam County, Tonica
Kara Rutherford - Milton Pope, LaSalle-Peru HS, Mendota Elementary
Julie O'Brien Smith - Speech Language Coordinator/PreK Speech Language Diagnostician
Tanna Horner - Coordinator of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services
Pre-School Screening Team
- Molly Kasperski, Speech and Language Diagnostician
- Michelle Pangrcic, Diagnostician
- Mallory Pohar, Hearing/Vision Technician
School Psychologists
Michael Grenda - Deer Park, Grand Ridge
Jacob Faltin-Medina - Circuit Breaker School, Lostant, Ransom, Tonica
Emma Riedesel - Peru Public Schools
Brenda Booker - Visaually Impaired Coordinator
Julie Kirkpatrick - Audiologist
Support Staff:
Jennifer Adkins - Child Count/Personnel and Records Custodian
Darci Aubry - Receptionist, Secretary to Psychologists and Tanna Horner
Hallie Durkee - Secretary to Melissa Cassidy, DeeAnna Guerra, Stephanie Allen, Julie O'Brien-Smith
Jean Gula - Secretary to Julie Kirkpatrick and Pre-School Screening Team
Marie McLaughlin - IT Coordinator
Julie Moore - Secretary to Nicole Butt, Janelle Gustafson, Laura Levine, Kara Rutherford, LEASE Library Manager
Kathy Parzgnat - Bookkeeper
Colleen Stefan - Secretary to Executive Director