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, Medicaid Secretary, 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