Welcome to NARA!   Here are some of the many benefits of belonging: 

NARA Membership Benefits

  Who We Are!

The National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA) represents all human care licensing, including adult residential and assisted living, adult day care, child care, child welfare and program licensing for services related to mental illness, developmental disabilities and abuse of drugs or alcohol. 

We are human service regulatory professionals, human service providers, university faculty, independent researchers and consultants, allied professions from health, safety and legal disciplines, consumers and all others who share our vision:  Consumer Protection Through Prevention. 

Benefits of Membership!

….for the professional

The Licensing Newsletter – an e-newsletter published  quarterly that providers members with information on legal issues, new research, member news and articles from guest contributors

The NARA Annual Licensing Seminar – members receive a discount registration fee

The NARA Licensing Curriculum – an excellent resource for human care licensing available at a reduced rate to members

Access to trainers/consultants – who are available to come to your location to facilitate training on a variety of regulatory topics

The NARA Trainer-in-a-Box – a series of fully prepared, fully scripted workshops that agencies can polish for their specific uses

NARA List Serves – online interest groups for AdultCare, Childcare, ChildWelfare, DrugAlcohol, Legal, MH-MR-DD, and Training that affords members an opportunity to ask questions of colleagues, share ideas and information from various states and disciplines

An Online Membership Directory – that keeps members in touch and helps professionals find others in their position in other states and provinces

NARA’s Reading Room – access to articles that cover a wide range of regulatory and human care topics that are of interest to regulators, providers and consumers of human care and services.

NARA research – on a variety of regulatory topics; most recently the popular Child Care Licensing Study

An opportunity to be involved in an organization that promotes professionalism in the field of human care licensing

Modest annual dues of $60 provides these services and more

 ….for members personally

 A 5% discount on all purchases of books, electronics, music, etc., from Barnes & Noble online at www.naralicensing.org

Discounts on products and publications from Exchange Magazine through a special NARA/Exchange partnership

Contact a NARA Member in Your State for a First-Hand Look at the Association or for More Information!


 Alabama  Josephine Barker
 
josephine.barker@dhr.alabama.gov
334-353-7808
 Alaska Carol Jensen
 
jensencr@muni.org  
 
907-343-4676
 
 Arkansas Cindy Pyle
 
cindy.pyle@arkansas.gov  
 
479-637-4141
 
 Connecticut Devon Conover
 
devon.conover@po.state.ct.us  
 
860-509-8006
 
 Colorado  Dana Andrews
 
dana.andrews@state.co.us 303-866-5946
 Delaware Lynn Jezyk
 
lynn.jezyk@state.de.us
302-892-4574
 Florida Tara Orlowski
Melissa Trentham
 
taraorlowski@gmail.com
melissa_h_trentham@dcf.state.fl.us
 
850-921-8228
 
 Georgia Carol Winstead
 
cwinste@dhr.state.ga.us  
 
404-657-9611
 
 Indiana Lisa Clifford
 
lisa.clifford@fssa.in.gov 317-234-3923
 Iowa Christine Huisman
 
chuisma@dhs.state.ia.us 712-255-2913
 Kansas Christine Ross-Baze
 
crossbaze@yahoo.com 785-296-8079
 Kentucky Melissa Muse
 
Melissa@childrensalliance.org  
 
502-320-9478
 
 Louisiana Angie Rollins
 
arollins@dss.state.la.us 225-342-9905
 Maine Bob Steinberg
 
robert.steinberg@maine.gov 207-287-5042
 Maryland LaTonya Shacklett
 
lshacklett@goc.state.md.us  
 
410-767-6620
 
 Massachusetts Joyce Holen
 
joyce.holen@massmail.state.ma.us  
 
508-828-5025, X 556
 
 Michigan James Sinnamon
 
sinnamonj@michigan.gov  
 
517-373-8300
 
 Missouri Pamela Speer
 
pams@ktis.net 573-642-6371
 Montana Becky Fleming-Siebenaler
 
bfleming@mt.gov 406-444-7770
 Nebraska Pat Urzedowski
 
pat.urzedowski@dhhs.ne.gov 402-471-9431
 New Mexico
 
Lucille Mizner
 
   
 North Carolina
 
Gina Boccetti
 
gina.boccetti@ncmail.net 910-592-7266
 Ohio Amy Eaton
 
eatona@odjfs.state.oh.us  
 
614-752-0651
 
 Oklahoma Mitzi Lee
 
Mitzi.Lee@okdhs.org  
 
405-521-2556
 
 Pennsylvania Robert Robinson
 
rerobinson@state.pa.us  
 
717-705-0382
 
 Tennessee Beverly Schmalzried
 
schmalzr@comcast.net  
 
423-926-4729
 
 Virginia Ivy Burnham
 
ivy.burnham@dss.virginia.gov  
 
757-491-3723
 
Washington
 
Karri Livingston
 
karri.livingston@del.wa.gov
 
509-225-6274
 


If you would like to become a State Liaison as the members above have done, please contact Mike Boland (mike.boland@sanswrite.com) or Jodie Markey (jodiemarkey@naralicensing.org).                                                               
 

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