Our Team

The Board Resource Center Team consists of trainers, coaches, content specialists, designers, writers, and media production experts with professional experience working with diverse communities. The team has a rich education and social services background that provides “state of the art” services using modalities that empower, demonstrate and teach complexities using easy-to-understand methods and tools.

BRC’s creative team ensures clients’ needs are met with customized products and outcomes. Development of training, curricular and informational media is strengthened by routine use of focus groups, field-testing and data analysis to validate methods and utility designed to accommodate diverse audiences, readers and users.

 

Tammy EvrardTammy Evrard

is the BRC Project Manager with nearly 20 years experience in the developmental disabilities service administration field. Her consultancy services concentrate on development and conducting presentations, providing facilitation support and lending technical assistance to ensure project meets anticipated outcomes. Tammy works directly with the BRC production team and coordinates with all consultants and end users.

Tammy holds a Bachelors Degree in communication arts and business and with experience as a Community Living Specialist. She worked for 10 years as a Service Coordinator and Resource Developer for one of California’s 21 Regional Centers. Tammy provides consultancy in program design for supported living agencies that implement person-centered plans customized to meet unique needs. She focuses on implementing personal plans that provide opportunities for people with disabilities to live and work in their communities.

 

Charlene JonesCharlene Jones

teams with BRC to provide technical assistance on instructional tools and strategies for a broad range of users. She has experience as a developmental disabilities service provider and administrator for more than 25 years. Charlene blends facilitation and training with production of written materials in accessible formats to support individuals to increase personal leadership and civic engagement. With a Masters Degree in special education, she specialized in integrated team work and co-authoring publications and training curricula on facilitation services. Working with numerous advocacy groups, she conducted statewide trainings using “consumer friendly” tools to support exercising personal rights and inclusion on governance boards. Charlene has also provided facilitation training for agency boards of directors and advisory committees to support members with adapted informational materials.

Charlene joins the BRC team as co-writer and editor. She has participated on numerous BRC curriculum and media projects.

 

Brian MarshBrian Marsh

is the life and wellness coach for the DDS Consumer Advocacy Committee “Leadership Through Personal Change” project. He also contributes to BRC’s projects involving families and parent groups by supporting them to create community partnerships that advance independent and self-determined lives.

Brian has a Fortune 500 corporate leadership background and is a life coach, consultant and speaker based in northern California. He holds a Masters Degree in business administration and a Professional Certified Coach credential from the International Coach Federation. Brian developed a program that linked positive personal and emotional satisfaction and life coaching to measurable scientific and clinical outcomes. He has worked in the healthcare field to help clients clarify how they want to live and support them in designing strategies to reach goals. His experience and training combine skills necessary to helping clients achieve tangible goals they once believed to be impossible. Brian also leads a disease management coaching program within a large California-based healthcare system aimed at patients living with chronic illness, such as diabetes and high cholesterol.

Brian’s work as a private life coach guides each person to reveal their purpose and live a self-determined, intentional life. He supports each person to clarify their life vision, connect with important relationships and commit to desired outcomes. Information about life coaching and Brian’s contact information can be found at www.peoplescils.org.

 

Sharon FallisSharon Fallis

is a contributor to many BRC’s projects, conducting trainings and field testing advocacy materials and managing project elements. As a community inclusion specialist, she has worked since 1989 on behalf of people with complex challenges. Sharon developed and managed a unique parenting support program for parents with developmental disabilities and their children that provided independent living and early intervention services. She facilitates supported living services that develop customized resources and natural support systems using person and family-centered plans. Sharon holds a Bachelors Degree in organizational behavior and leadership with specialized training in organizational development and employee management. Sharon also works as a community consultant for the Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute and collaborates on community stakeholder efforts invested in advancing community living opportunities for marginalized people.