Lori Vaughner
Greenfield
Summary
Dynamic Medicaid Waiver Case Manager with Unity of Indiana, skilled in individual support planning and budget management. Proven ability to enhance service delivery through effective interdisciplinary collaboration and resource coordination. Recognized for building strong relationships with clients and families, ensuring their health and welfare while advocating for their needs.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Medicaid Waiver Case Manager
Unity of Indiana
Greenwood
11.2023 - Current
- Write person-centered individual support plans for people with disabilities
- Maintain and manage all electronic documents
- Facilitate interdisciplinary team and other meetings and provide resources
- Complete/maintain each individuals waiver budget
- Monitor service delivery and utilization
- Ensure individuals health and welfare
- Maintain/Build relationships with individuals, families, guardians, providers
- Provide resources for programs
Medicaid Waiver Case Manager
Columbus Organization
Indianapolis
04.2022 - 11.2023
- Wrote person-centered, individual support plans for people with disabilities.
- Maintained and managed all electronic documents
- Facilitated interdisciplinary teams, other meetings, and provide resources.
- Complete and maintain each individual's waiver budget
- Monitored service delivery and utilization
- Ensured individuals health and welfare
- Maintained/built relationships with individuals, families, guardians, providers
- Provided resources for programs
Staff Support Specialist/Team Leader
Village of Merici
Indianapolis
08.2017 - 11.2022
- Recruited, interviewed and hired qualified direct support professionals
- Facilitated new hire orientation
- Developed employee recognition programs
- Provided supervision for effective growth and development opportunities by identifying and remediating performance gaps of employees
- Built and maintained effective employee work schedules to incorporate employee requests without creating insufficient staffing
- Assisted with accurate record-keeping of employee attendance
- Directed the implementation and documentation of clients' Person Centered Individual Support Plan and Behavior Support Plans by direct support professionals
- Advocated for clients in quarterly and annual meetings
On- Boarding Trainer
Dungarvin
Indianapolis
02.2017 - 08.2017
- Delivered weekly classroom training to new direct support professionals
- Monitored employee active participation by promoting engagement though role-playing, group activities and visual instruction
- Administered tests to complete performance and report progress to managers
- Used strategies to keep group focused, on task, and to manage disruptions
- Identified employees' needs and set attainable targets to ensure performance and effectiveness were achieved
- Maintained a positive solution, a focused demeanor when responding to conflicts or problems
Stay at home mom/homemaker
Home
Greenfield
01.2015 - 02.2017
- Cared for children
- Coordinated all educational activities
- Set and monitored budgets
- Cleaned, cooked and did the laundry
- Scheduled and oversaw property maintenance
- Communicated household needs and expectations to household members
- Stayed up-to-date nutrition and hygiene.
Information and Referral Specialist
Connect2Help 211
Indianapolis
06.2014 - 01.2015
- Provided social service-oriented resources and referrals to individuals via phone
- Interacted with callers of diverse backgrounds with a high level of customer service, including demonstrating a positive, customer focused attitude
- Answered inbound inquiry calls in an efficient and courteous manner
- Continued to expand knowledge base of available community resources for potential callers, independently initiating research to maintain up-to-date throughout the grant term
Instructional Assistant
JB Stephens Elementary School
Greenfield
08.2012 - 06.2014
- Taught students in various settings by moving throughout 6 classrooms a day
- Completed assessments and appropriate classroom implementation of curriculum
- Provided documentation as required by teachers
- Maintained ongoing, consistent, professional, and supportive communication for the classroom and school as noted in the school’s frameworks
Employment Consultant
Noble of Indiana
Indianapolis
12.2002 - 12.2010
- Developed and implemented personalized vocational assessments for individual with various disabilities based on their interest,skills, goals, and support needs in collaboration with Vocational Rehabilitation
- Facilitated job starts and provided training and consultations to employers
- Coached the individual through job identification, interviewing, new hire orientation, training, and maintaining of employment
- Developed and maintained relationships with businesses in the community
- Documented daily reports, billable time, and case notes detailing services, progress, incidents, et
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology And Business
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, IN12-1994
Skills
- Individual support planning
- Budget management
- Service delivery monitoring
- Electronic documentation
- Resource coordination
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
Timeline
Medicaid Waiver Case Manager
Unity of Indiana
11.2023 - Current
Medicaid Waiver Case Manager
Columbus Organization
04.2022 - 11.2023
Staff Support Specialist/Team Leader
Village of Merici
08.2017 - 11.2022
On- Boarding Trainer
Dungarvin
02.2017 - 08.2017
Stay at home mom/homemaker
Home
01.2015 - 02.2017
Information and Referral Specialist
Connect2Help 211
06.2014 - 01.2015
Instructional Assistant
JB Stephens Elementary School
08.2012 - 06.2014
Employment Consultant
Noble of Indiana
12.2002 - 12.2010
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology And Business
Indiana University, Bloomington
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