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Professional Geriatric
Care Management

  Professional Geriatric Care Managers
Charlene Proeger, Ph.D., LMFT, CMC
Sarasota, Florida
Phone: (941) 351-3640
Email: cproeger@comcast.net

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Charlene Proeger, Ph.D., LMFT, CMC

Dr. Proeger is an experienced Professional Geriatric Care Manager. She is also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and holds national certifications as a Certified Care Manager (CMC) and a Registered Guardian. Her experience includes 33 years of providing mental health services and coordinating community resources for clients and families.

Dr. Proeger has been a Director of the Board of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers (GCM) since 2002 and started a two year term on the Executive Committee in 2004. She has chaired the Chapter Development Committee since 2002. She was honored with the GCM President's Award in 2003 and has been a Fellow in the GCM Leadership Academy since 2003. Additional national committees

She served as President of the Florida Geriatric Care Managers Association (FGCMA) from May 1998 through December 2000, and was on the board from 1996 to 2003. She currently serves as consultant to the FGCMA board, coordinating leadership training for the Chapter. The Florida Chapter has recognized Dr. Proeger's contributions. Her peers chose her for the Outstanding Chapter Member award in 1999 and 2002. Additional memberships

Dr. Proeger served as an adjunct Instructor at the University of South Florida, teaching a graduate level course in the Department of Gerontology (January - April 2001). She was an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the University of Florida, and has provided supervision for graduate students in counseling.

Additionally, she makes presentations to caregivers, professionals, and community organizations on a wide variety of topics related to the elderly. She has provided leadership training to Care Managers on the National and Chapter levels.

Barbara Levison, MA, MSW

Ms. Levison received her BSW from Cornell University in 1992 and her MSW from the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 1994. In addition, she received a master's degree in Jewish Studies from Baltimore Hebrew University in 1994 and is a graduate of the Baltimore Institute for Jewish Communal Service.

Ms. Levison has provided care management services on a part-time basis with Proeger & Associates since January 1997.

She received her certification in Care Management in 2007 through the National Academy of Certified Care Managers and  is a member of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers.

Her prior work experience includes a position with a home health agency providing social work assessments of clients' needs for a variety of community services. Additionally, she has held a position as director of social services at a long-term-care facility.

She volunteers on a regular basis at Ashton Elementary School.  She has also served on the Board of Directors at Temple Beth Sholom. She is currently the Vice Chairperson of the Temple Beth Sholom Martin and Mildred Paver Religious School Advisory Board.

Mindy J. Zelitt, MA

Ms. Zelitt joined Proeger & Associates in 2004. She received her Master's of Arts in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of South Florida in 1996 and her Bachelor's of Social Work in 1991. She has been a member of the National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers and the Florida Geriatric Care Managers Association since 2004.  She received her certification in care management through the National Academy of Certified Care Managers in 2007.

 

For the past three years Ms. Zelitt has been involved with committees in the aging network. She has headed the refreshment committee for the Manatee Aging Network since 2004.  In 2006 she was a committee member for the Senior Friendship Center’s annual Fall Festival.  lso she assisted with the Florida Geriatric Care Managers conference committee for the 2008 annual conference, securing sponsor & vendor participation.

 

Her prior work experience includes Mental Health Therapist at the Family Counseling Center in Sarasota, Florida, case manager at Manatee Glens, and case manager for the Easter Seals Adult Day Health Care Center.

Lorraine Livingston, RN, BSN, MN

Lorraine has been an assistant professor of nursing in the Health Sciences Department of Manatee Community College since 1996. Prior to that, she worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist with Sarasota Psychiatric Group and held a faculty position at Sarasota County Technical Institute.

Before moving to Sarasota in 1971 she worked as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at University Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, and the VA hospital in Gainesville, Florida and as a Registered Nurse at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, Florida.

She received the MCC Vice President's Award for Teaching Excellence in May 2005.

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