About Twogether Consulting

Lynn worked in California for 7 years doing a variety of jobs in social services for the IDD population.  She worked mainly in Vocational Rehabilitation, Supported Employment and Dual Diagnosis Recovery in California and also worked in some of these types of services in Texas as well.  She has worked in these programs as well as HCS, TXHML and ICF for about the last 15 years.   Lynn is also an expert at “staff rentention” and has recently begun developing some classes/training that we will be available for program directors, owners, and Human Resource staff in the next year through Twogether Consulting.

Lynn started out as a QIDP in the ICF program and then went on to work for 5 years in the HCS program as both a case manager and a Program Director.  Lynn also spent 5 years in Assertive Community Treatment programs in California and Texas.  She has worked in various positions in IDD waiver services in Texas, including:  QIDP, Case manager, Program Director, Vocational/ Habilitation Director.

Lynn is our resident Day Habilitation and Supported Employment/Employment Assistant specialist.  She is also a great source for finding resources in the Denton/Dallas/Ft. Worth/Arlington area.  She is based in Arlington, Tx.  Lynn is great at thinking “outside the box” and works closely with some of our clients who are Day Hab Providers, Non-Profit programs providing contracted waiver services, especially.  Lynn also helps providers with development and maintenance of their Day Habilitation and Vocational services and has spent a bit of time helping providers of these services prepare for the changes coming in the coming years to these services.  She is also able to help the provider with training and cirriculum to show your staff how to help teach the individuals in the program and for the programming for individuals themselves.

She can also provide guidance with development of your “vocational assessment tools” and assessments that help staff to better understand how each of the individuals in your day program/vocational program learns new skills, which should help tremendously in individualizing their plan of care.

Lynn also assists ICF and HCS providers with Corrective Action Planning & Plans of Corrections mostly in the Dallas/Ft. Worth/Arlington area.  Lynn is our other consultant who works with New Providers/Start Up’s.  Lynn currently is employed with a provider of  the YES waiver in the Arlington provider, and really enjoys working with young persons and co-occuring diagnoses.

Kim received a  Bachelors in Social Work from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX.  She also has a Masters in Special Education from Texas Tech University.

From 1991-1998 Kim was the Management and Program Evaluation Services Director at Lubbock State Supported Living Center.

Kim was the IDD Director of Services at StarCare Specialty Health System (formally known as Lubbock MHMR) from 1998 until May of 2013.

Kim’s specialty is the ICF program, but she is also well versed in the HCS & TXHmL programs. Kim has a vast amount of knowledge and extensive experience in the areas of developing policy and procedure, working with budgets and finances for large facilities, oversight of employees and maintaining a good work environment for employees, as well as rules and regulations in the state of Texas and New Mexico concerning IDD services.

Kim is currently the Executive Director of Gentiva Hospice and  lives in Portales, New Mexico (which is not too far from Clovis,  New Mexico and she is approximately 2 hrs from Lubbock, TX).  Kim is available to serve our providers in much of West Texas as well as Dallas/Ft. Worth area and neighboring states.