by Mark Contois, CWS Division Chief
Please join me in welcoming the Child Welfare Services newest AOP member, Diana Diaz who will join us on 12/05/2016.
Diana began working for the Benefit Service Center on April 15,
2013 as an Extra Help Eligibility Worker. On 7/22/2013, Diana was hired
permanently and went into 6 month Medi-Cal and CalFresh program training. Diana
partook in the Health Care Reform Conversion room to help expedite the backlog
processing as well as CalFresh Horizontal Integration Workgroup where she
assisted in developing recommendations for new and/or existing procedures
needing updating in order to increase CalFresh participation in Santa Barbara
County.
Diana has served as a unit mentor and one-on-one mentor, served
as guest mentor to new hires within Staff Development for a week and as a
Outstation Eligibility Worker for Santa Maria location. Diana has been part of
several projects for example APTC plan selection agents, COLA runs, and
Companion Case backlog.
Diana graduated from LPDP where she attended several courses;
Productivity Puzzle-Time Management, Stress Management, Leadership for Leads,
Fiscal Training and The Art of Presenting, along with other mentees facilitated
“Topic of the day” where outreaching to Community Agencies for resources
to provided to DSS.
Diana is looking forward to joining the Child Welfare Services,
and we are excited to have her!