As a WSU Extension Faculty member for Chelan-Douglas Counties in North Central Washington, Ann provides leadership and educational programs in family relations, parenting, and life skills areas. Ann collaborates with Chelan-Douglas Superior Court to provide court-mandated Children Cope With Divorce® parent education classes in English and Spanish for parents with dependent children who are divorcing, separating, or involved in custody or parenting issues. She is also working with community partners on the development of an Internet Community Resource Directory serving 6 counties in Eastern Washington called "4people.org" to facilitate and promote the use of resources by residents and service providers. Ann uses the train-the trainer model to extend Extension program efforts through such programs as the Families Have Choices life skills education and Caring Families: Parenting Choices parenting programs.

Ann has a special interest in helping farm families involved in tree fruit and dryland wheat production deal with economic stress and hard times. She is working with other Extension faculty in planning and conducting educational programs integrating family and farm economic issues.

Ann is a member of WSU Cooperative Extension's State Parenting Team and was conference chair for Extension's 1999 Northwest Regional Parenting Conference. She has a M.S. in Home Economics Education from Iowa State University and a M.S. in Clothing & Textiles from Colorado State University.

E-mail: diede@wsu.edu