My name is Tara Guerrero, I am a wife, mother of 3 awesome kids and the Vocational and Tutoring Coordinator for Maricopa and Southern AZ counties. I love spending my free time on the road! As a family we stay busy by traveling for baseball tournaments and any chance possible, fitting in a mini family vacation. I began my professional life as a hairstylist. As much as I loved doing hair, I found my passion with Elite!
I have been with Elite for almost 9 years and have loved the opportunities that I have been blessed with while working here. Beginning in 2013 as a Vocational Provider, I was introduced to the disability community. Struggling with anxiety myself, I related more and more with the client's I supported. Transitioning from Vocational Provider to HCBS Coordinator, my desire to help people with disabilities strengthened even more. As HCBS Coordinator I had the opportunity to expand on the services Elite offered, to individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
In an effort to best support our clients and all individuals with disabilities, I attended multiple trainings/classes and eventually became the trainer. As a certified trainer I taught caregivers, providers, family members and many others within the community in learning the rights of people with disabilities, how to better support individuals through challenging behaviors and learning how to help prevent those behaviors. I also taught caregivers how to care for people with different disabilities or diagnosis’s and all in the importance of focusing on the person as a person and not their disability or diagnosis. My favorite moments within my trainings were seeing the light bulb go on when the class, finally understood the main focus of the training, how to see the individual for their strengths and abilities and NOT their disability. In my current role of Vocational and Tutoring Coordinator I am able to put this into practice on a daily basis, by helping our clients to focus on or finding their strengths, abilities and what they can do for the workforce and not what they can't. As I said above, I have found my passion with Elite and that is to help others!
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