Tina Gabel, an experienced project manager, works closely with families to develop innovative transition plans for youth with disabilities. In her transtion practice, Tina helps families navigate the complex NYS disability and benefits systems in order to create meaningful life plans. Tina provides assistance with strategic planning, project management and service coordination of comprehensive family directed plans.
As a highly competent and caring professional, Tina uses a person centered approach to empower individuals to reach their potential. Tina works in close collaboration with agencies, state departments and local community resources to identify and obtain personalized supports and services for individuals and their families.
Tina is a married, mother of two children with a strong background in disability advocacy, self determination, person centered planning, self employment for persons with disabilities, transition services and personalized service development and planning. Tina is also experienced in corporate project management and innovative assistive technology.
Tina has trained with Dr. Beth Mount in person centered planning techniques and is trained in Medicaid Service Coordination and individualized budget startup/support brokerage in NYS. Tina has attended NY Medical College for a graduate program in Developmental Disabilities and also received training in IRS Pass Plan development. Tina is also trained in conducting assistive technology evaluations for students with disabilities.
In her free time, Tina enjoys beading, knitting and yoga. You may have seen her at Bead & Purl in Rhinebeck, NY a retail store she owned and operated in 2006-2007. Bead & Purl was a small business designed to “host” the embroidery business run by her daughter who has a disability.
Tina says,"My husband and I spent last year developing a not for profit Medicaid Service Provider agency to work with the niche population of youth in transition. We wanted to specialize in helping youth who "fall through the cracks" in the systems. Unfortunately, last fall, Medicaid funding was frozen for new OMRDD related projects and we put the provider agency on hold.
So, I began to work with families to assist them with the complicated and frustrating process of moving from the school system which is entitlement based; to the adult systems which are eligibility based with long wait20lists. We are now considering "evolving" the not for profit concept into something more directed at comprehensive person centered planning along with information/referrals and service brokerage rather than providing actual Medicaid services and supports."
Check out Tina's new blog here.
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