Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. Entering a New State By Jeff Frady, Vice President The State wanted a model that would serve their people [...] Read More
Celebrating Direct Support Professional Week By Doug Beebe, Chief Executive Officer Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) are the beating heart of a system that assists people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to live in communities of their choosing. For [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. Navigating Hard Choices By Doug Beebe, Chief Executive Officer In this issue of Exemplar, we are celebrating ten years [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. We Stand Ready By David Ross, Chief Operating Officer As a service providing company, we most often ask “how” [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. Innovative Solutions for Critical Moments By Brian Gill, Vice President of Behavioral Health and Crisis Services In an era [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. Leston received services from Benchmark’s Active Consulting program. Prior to his involvement in this program, Leston spent 130 days [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. Customized Solutions for Complex Needs By Chris Diehl, Vice President One of Benchmark’s defining strengths is our ability to [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. 65 Years of Solutions By Courtney Heiser, Chief Communications Officer Throughout 2025, Benchmark Human Services is celebrating 65 years [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. Our Guiding Principles By Anne Titus, Benchmark Vice President “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. Measuring Outcomes to Ensure Excellence By David Ross, Benchmark’s Chief Operating Officer “What gets measured, gets managed” – Many [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our Development team with any questions: [email protected]. Message from the CEO, Doug Beebe “The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” – Ralph [...] Read More
Holiday Tray Bake Recipes Members of the departmental leadership of Benchmark Human Services are thrilled to share their favorite tray bake recipes for the winter season. Happy Holidays and Merry Baking! Trista’s Great Grandma’s Texas Sheet Cake From Trista DeBolt, [...] Read More
Service Spotlight: Early Intervention At Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark), we’re all about connecting people and potential. For the youngest among us, we are involved in all aspects of care to support healthy growth and development. Our early intervention teams [...] Read More
DEIA and Fostering a Positive Organizational Culture By Antoinette N.T. Thornton, Ph.D., LCSW Chair, Benchmark’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee In today’s rapidly changing and interconnected world, Benchmark continues to recognize the importance of cultivating a positive and inclusive environment. [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our staff with any questions, Courtney Heiser, Chief Culture Officer or Sarah Chestnut, Director of Development Strategies. Benchmark’s ACCESS Model Demonstrating Results Benchmark Human Services is the only people-focused [...] Read More
Welcome to Exemplar, the Benchmark company newsletter. Enjoy, and please contact our staff with any questions, Courtney Heiser, Chief Culture Officer or Sarah Chestnut, Director of Development Strategies. Welcome to Exemplar! By Doug Beebe, Benchmark CEO Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) [...] Read More
Holiday Cookie Recipes The leadership of Benchmark Human Services is thrilled to share their favorite cookie recipes for the winter season. Happy Holidays and Merry Baking! Doug’s Scotch Shortbread From Doug Beebe, Benchmark President “I’ll always go back for seconds [...] Read More
Please read the letter linked below from Governor of Indiana, Eric Holcomb about a new federal grant and how it will affect individuals served by our industrial programs, AWRC Industries, Highway Safety Specialists, and others. “The Division of Disability and [...] Read More
The Delicate Balance between Helping and Fixing: Paving a Path of Independence By Brad Max, M.S., Alabama Project Director Most of us enter this field out of a sense of passion and desire to make the world a better place, [...] Read More
What’s Your NPS? This article was originally published in the Open Minds Daily Executive Briefing on 06/01/22. www.openminds.com By Monica E. Oss, Chief Executive Officer of OPEN MINDS Like all executives, I’m always looking for benchmarks of ‘how we are [...] Read More
Mental Health Matters: May is Mental Health Awareness Month By Lori Graham, LCSW, Director, Arkansas Mental Health Awareness month, observed in the United States during the month of May, is an opportunity to acknowledge the importance of mental health care [...] Read More
Happy Nurses Week! A Tribute to Benchmark Human Services and HomePointe HealthCare Nurses Kim Galaviz RN, BSN, MPM Chief Nursing Officer In 1994, the American Nurses Association first sponsored and promoted National Nurses Week – a week designated each May [...] Read More
How the World Has Changed for People with Disabilities: As he approaches his June retirement, former Benchmark CEO and current Senior Business Adviser, Bill Swiss, reflects on how the world has changed for people with disabilities throughout his career — [...] Read More
Mentoring Women in Leadership Karen Shollenberger Benchmark Vice President Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) has a rich history of women in leadership roles. Health and Human Services, and particularly the Intellectual/Developmental Disability industry, has been female-dominated for decades and decades. Recently [...] Read More
Serving Children with Complex Care Needs and the Positive Effect of Home Health Support through COVID-19 By Amanda Musser, RN HomePointe HealthCare Administrator To say that 2020 and 2021 have been a challenge is an understatement. As a whole, the [...] Read More
A Successful Behavior Intervention Model By Dr. John M. Guercio, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA, CBIST Clinical Director Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) began providing residential services in the state of Missouri in 2007. The upstart was a slow and measured one and [...] Read More
The Basics of Autism and ABA Services By AJ Beyrer, Ph.D., LCSW, LBA, BCBA-D With an increase in mental health awareness, autism spectrum disorder or ASD has become more known in recent years. Characterized by skill deficits in language, communication, [...] Read More
DSP Week Celebrates Often Unrecognized Front Line Heroes By Doug Beebe, President/CEO, Benchmark Human Services In March 2020, the world changed in unimaginable ways. Between school closures and lock downs, PPE shortages and adjusting to a new way of life, [...] Read More
Programs Offer Better Alternatives to Individuals in Crisis By George Harris, Benchmark Director, Georgia Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) has been delivering crisis services in Georgia since 2011, but the Benchmark’s crisis roots go back 15 years to when the company [...] Read More
Leveraging Automation to Create Job Opportunities By Jeff Harris, Vice President, Operations When I began my career at Benchmark nearly 15 years ago our industrial organization operated out of three Indiana locations with three main lines of business. Since then, [...] Read More
Ft. Wayne, IN and Maplewood, NJ—Benchmark Human Services (Benchmark) and StationMD have launched a partnership to ensure all of Benchmark’s Indiana clients have 24/7 access to a doctor anytime they need. Benchmark provides residential and community-based services to people who [...] Read More
Preserving Employment for People with Disabilities during COVID-19 By: David Ross, Benchmark Vice President Over the last decade, Benchmark has helped thousands of individuals with disabilities find and keep meaningful work. Having meaningful work is powerful and this is just [...] Read More
Independence. Inclusion. Potential. New Blog to Feature Hallmarks of Service Delivery Doug Beebe, CEO, Benchmark Human Services When 2020 started, I was excited to celebrate Benchmark Human Services’ 60th Anniversary. Since its founding in 1960, Benchmark and its associated organizations, [...] Read More
Behavioral Healthcare is Healthcare By: Nikki Ford, LCSW/LICSW October 23, 2019 Each year at least 1 in 5 adults and 1 in 6 youth in the U.S. experience a diagnosable mental health condition. In fact, suicide is the second leading [...] Read More
David Ross, Benchmark Vice President, authored these 13 expressed values of a great direct support professional. A great direct support professional: Recognizes that the individuals we serve are people with whom we have more in common than we have differences. [...] Read More
Benchmark’s President of Residential Services, Doug Beebe’s commentary on National DSP Week was featured in Vineland, NJ newspaper The Daily Journal. Print Excerpt: The role of the direct support professional is both rewarding and challenging. While it is not a [...] Read More
Benchmark Human Services, an organization which provides services to people with mental illness and developmental disabilities throughout the United States, held its first annual recovery celebrations in Georgia last month. Celebrations were held in Augusta, Georgia on June 13 and [...] Read More
