Presenters:

Isaac Baldry graduated from Custer County District High School in 2010. He attended the Montana Youth Leadership Project in 2008 and works as the Region 1 coordinator for MyTransitions. He has been a member of the Rural Institute Consumer Advisory Council since 2008, and has presented on multiple webinars for the Rural Institute. He speaks as a Special Olympics Global Messenger and has been a Law Enforcement Torch Run Athlete Ambassador for Montana. In November of 2012 he was awarded the Executive Council International Athlete Award for his work. He is also self-employed as a public speaker focusing on youth issues and technology. His use of technology was featured in the 2012 Spring edition of Apostrophe Magazine. In 2004 he received the "Yes I Can" award in the area of technology. Isaac is a local sports enthusiast. He will often be "at the game" whatever the sport. In the summer time he is busy with his raised garden beds.

Kim Brown, BSW, MSW, RSW started her human services career in 1982.  She has worked at vocational programs and group homes for individuals with developmental disabilities and/or mental illnesses, a nursing home for the elderly and people with severe physical disabilities, a psychiatric hospital for children, the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services Public Assistance Bureau, and in schools and homes providing children's mental health services.  To continue her journey of lifelong learning, she joined the University of Montana Rural Institute as a Transition Project Coordinator in 2003, providing technical assistance, training and on-site support to schools, agencies, families and students in the areas of transition, employment, and Social Security Work Incentives.  Kim also lectures and consults nationally and internationally on transition and customized employment, and develops Internet-based knowledge translation materials for the Southeast TACE. She has taught undergraduate-level social work classes in the United States and Canada.  In addition, Kim is a Mental Health Counselor with the Pender Islands Health Care Society and is a founding partner of the Healthy Reflections Eating Disorders website.