Choice Powers Change Consulting
Choice Powers Change supports people to develop deep and fulfilling connections with their community and achieve individual empowerment through strength-based goals, supports and choices.
Our work focuses on building teams for transformation; incorporating person centered philosophies and strengths-based management into service supports; transitioning to capacity-based planning and identifying leadership to initiate change. Our work creates a person-centered response to new regulations.
Our Core Beliefs
The breadth and depth of a person’s connection with their community is the true measure of their quality of life.
We work to create opportunities for people with disabilities to rise out of poverty and into lives of prosperity.
All people have the capacity, individually or with support to make meaningful choices about their lives.
How management supports their staff is directly reflected in how staff support the people they serve.
All people have talents and knowledge to create welcoming, rich and diverse communities for everyone.
Rachael Newkirk
Rachael Newkirk has worked as a Service Coordinator and now, Case Management Supervisor at a regional center for 21 years. She also has experience working for the Department of Rehabilitation conducting work skills assessments. Rachael worked in a house where four adults lived together, as the house administrator. She worked as a direct support person to help people with disabilities reclaim their lives after living in a state hospital, and with seniors who live in their own home.
Marlene McCollum
Marlene McCollum has worked as a Service Coordinator and now, Case Management Supervisor at regional centers for 19 years. Marlene has worked with infants in the Early Start Program and with adults living in an array of living settings. In addition, she worked as a vocational counselor for an agency where people with disabilities gained work experience in a variety of employment programs. She has also worked with women in crisis who needed safety and support.
Choice Powers Change Consulting is our business-it’s our passion and how we put our skill set to use. We teach, train, collaborate, and plan with people, to develop and experience reciprocal involvement with their community. We do this through interest-based exploration and personalized supports.