South Bend, IN - Feb 2010- Dismas House of South Bend welcomes our newest staff member, Loralee Rodgers.  Loralee is the current Case Manager handling numerous projects within Dismas House. Mrs. Rodgers facilitates the HPRP Grant that assists our residents in obtaining affordable housing once they have proven themselves to be self sufficient. Along with facilitating the grant, she also conducts our Substance Abuse program, Parenting Education Group, Anger Management Group and our Thinking For Good program. Her individual counseling has impacted a number of our clients lives and has led them to be productive within our community. Her individual counseling has allowed many of our clients to obtain the skills and knowledge they would need for a successful re-entry

Loralee Rodgers started her undergrad at IU of South Bend in 2002 and in 2007 she then started her MSW; graduating in May of 2010 with her Masters Degree in Social Work. Currently she is studying for her LSW. In her previous position she was a Case Manager working with the Family and Children Center in South Bend in Counseling and Development Services.

Her experience at Dismas in the last nine months have been challenging but yet very rewarding. Because her previous experience was working with children she had to adjust to a different clientele. This was her first time working with clients returning from incarceration.

Her hopes for the residents of Dismas is to ensure they obtain full-time employment to become self sufficient and gain housing. In essence their lives back and continue with their re-entry back into society.

Experience at Dismas:

In the last nine months at Dismas, her experience, in her own words "have been challenging but yet very rewarding. This is the first time I am working with clients returning from incarceration. Previous experience is with children.  The hopes for the residents is to ensure they obtain full-time employment to become self sufficient and gain housing, obtain the knowledge and skills needed to become a productive member of society upon leaving Dismas House."

POSITION: Case Manager. HPRP Grant, Substance Abuse Group, Thinking for Good, Anger Management Group, Parenting Education Group, individual counseling, interview potential clients. 

SCHOOL: Indiana University of South Bend 2002 she started her undergrad in General Studies;  in 2007 she then started her MSW graduating in 2010 with her Masters in Social Work. She is currently studying for her LSW. Previous Employers- Family and Children Center CDS- Counseling and Development Services – Case Manager.