Lisa McCormick, is currently providing services to kinship families in Maricopa County as a manager with Duet: Partners in Health and Aging. She is also in the process of helping co-found EPIC Disability Advocacy, currently serving as the Director of Development and Secretary of the board. Lisa is a native to Arizona. She obtained her Bachelor in Social Work in 2017 from The College of Saint Scholastica, finding her true passion in supporting individuals and families in the community to build on their foundations to better their potential. Lisa is certified and trained in ACEs providing trauma-informed services; she is proficient in creating individualized services through building rapport and utilizing person-centered planning methods. Her professional experience includes; five years as a family support specialist at Southwest Human Development, where she received over 100 training hours in a variety of parenting curricula, child development, and crisis management. She also sits on several non-profit committees and coalitions to support the advocacy work needed to support families within the community. Prior to finding her career passion, she married her high school sweetheart Kurt, raised three daughters and became a proud Oma in December 2021.