Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Advisory Board Member: Dale J. Dangremond, BSW, MBA

Since 1990, Dale Dangremond has worked nationally as an expert consultant on the topics of abuse and neglect, critical incident investigations, and incident/quality management in the disability, eldercare, and juvenile justice fields with federal, state, and local governments, as well as with private organizations through her company, Dangremond Consulting.

Dale has over 28 years of experience working in the disability field in organizations providing supports to individuals, as an advocate, administrator, consultant, systems change agent, and parent of children with neurological disorders.

Her expertise includes consulting and training on conducting abuse/neglect investigations, assessing incident management and investigation process in organizations and systems, and the design and implementation of processes to prevent harm in human service organizations along with competency-based assessment tools for investigation and incident management process. She also works as an expert witness and monitor of incident management and critical incident investigation systems in connection with court orders and litigation settlements.

Dale has worked as a consultant with the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services on protection from harm issues in the Medicaid Waiver Program and on the “look behind” contract assessing ICF/MRs. She has also worked as an expert with the US Department of Justice, Special Litigation Section/Civil Rights Division on CRIPA investigations. She has extensive experience in developing and implementing regulation and policy involving protection from harm/incident management, and accessibility/rights issues for individuals with hearing loss.

Dale’s other professional experience includes work for community-based organizations (including independent living centers) supporting children and adults with disabilities in mid- and executive management positions in states like New York, Colorado, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. She has extensive experience in the field of deafness developing and managing specialized support programs, and has worked as a professional sign language interpreter and faculty in interpreter training programs.

Dale moved to Wellington, FL, three years ago from Washington, D.C. with her husband, Bill, and two sons, Zack and Will.



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