Direction Service: Staff

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 51360 Eugene, OR 97405

Physical Address:
3411-A Willamette St. Eugene, OR 97405

Staff Bio

Marshall Peter, M.S. is the Executive Director of Direction Service and the Director of CADRE. Peter, who has worked at Direction Service since 1977, has provided case coordination and advocacy services to more than 500 families who have children with disabilities. A frequent collaborator with the University of Oregon, Peter has presented lectures and trainings on a broad range of topics including conflict resolution, consumer empowerment, wrap around services for children with emotional/behavioral disorders, legal issues, transition, interagency collaboration and advocacy. Peter has received the Lisl Waechter Award from the ARC, the Exemplary Service Award from COPE (Oregon's Parent Training and Information Center) the Second Annual Barrier Awareness Day Award from the City of Eugene and the Distinguished Service Award from the Oregon Disabilities Commission.

Jay Buckley is one of the Direction Service Counseling Center's Clinical Co-Directors. Jay is a licensed psychologist with doctorates in Counseling Psychology from the University of Oregon and in Special Education from The Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Buckley relies on a cognitive-behavioral approach that is influenced by a family systems model. His areas of interest include anxiety disorders, autism, and mood disorders.
Jaqui Lichtenstein

Jacqui Lichtenstein is one of the Direction Service Counseling Center's Clinical Co-Directors. Jacqui is a licensed clinical social worker. She also has a Ph.D. in Special Education and Psychology from the University of Oregon. Dr. Lichtenstein has expertise in anxiety disorders, mood disorders and parenting. She is particularly interested in issues related to young women and children. Jacqui's work is also based on a cognitive-behavioral approach.

Philip Moses Philip S. Moses serves as CADRE's Assistant Director. From 1999 - 2004, he served as CADRE's Technical Assistance Coordinator. As Assistant Director, Philip manages CADRE's use of advanced technology as well as traditional means to provide technical assistance to state departments of education in order to improve the effectiveness of special education mediation systems. He also supports parents, educators, administrators, attorneys and advocates to benefit from the full continuum of dispute resolution options that can prevent and resolve conflict. Since 1987, Philip has mediated, case managed, and observed thousands of mediations under the auspices of the New York State Unified Court System, as well as in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Philip was formerly Coordinator of the Program on Public Policy Dispute Resolution at the Government Law Center of Albany Law School. He was also an Adjunct Faculty member of Albany Law School teaching courses on mediation and alternative dispute resolution, and served as an adjunct faculty member for Siena College's Peace Studies Program. Philip served as President of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association from 1995 - 1997. Formerly the director of the Dispute Resolution Center of Onondaga County, he also founded the Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution Skills based in Syracuse. Philip co-founded the Campus Mediation Center at Syracuse University where he completed a Masters degree with a Certificate in Conflict Resolution. He is a certified mediator and certified trainer for the New York State Unified Court System's Community Dispute Resolution Centers program, and holds several others certificates in the field.

Sybil Ford is the Director of Information Services at Direction Service where she has worked since 1993. Prior to working at Direction Service she was a resource room teacher. She has three children, one of whom has Down Syndrome. Ford is the former Board President of ARC of Lane County and a past member of the Eugene School District Special Education Advisory Committee.

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Direction Service Board of Directors

Name	Affliation	Year Joined
Mark Herring, M.D. - President*	Neurologist	1991
Martha Walters, - Vice-president	Walters, Romm, Chanti & Dickens, PC	1998
Carol Knobbe, Secretary	Assistant Superintendent - Lane Education Service District	1999
Barb Mollahan - Treasurer	Financial Analyst - PeaceHealth	2004

Nancy Hart	Lane Community College, Disability Service	2003
Alicia Hays	Director, Department of Children and Families, Lane County	1994
Alana Holmes*	Employee Relations Manager University of Oregon	2005
Tom Kelly	Cappelli, Miles Spring	1992
Donna Koechig	Associate Vice President, Instruction and Student Services, Lane Community College	2000
Dean Kortge, Ph.D.	Pacific Benefit Consultants	1990
Jim Lakehomer	Community Member	2003
Linda Lewis	Coordinator, Federal Relations and Policy, College of Education, University of Oregon	1997
Ellen Nation*	Bookkeeper/Accountant Human Resources, RiverRidge Golf Course	2005
Cindy Roane*	Vice President, Business Relations Manager, Umpqua Bank	2000
Mike Vermillion	Superintendent - Lane Education Service District	2006
Sue Wickeizer*	Special Education Director - South Lane School District	2004

	*Parent of a child with a disability.

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