OUR BOARD

Jaimy Criswell | Senior Resource Council Board Member

Jaimy Criswell | Executive Director

Discover Goodwill

Jaimy is a Springs Native who has worked with Seniors and people with disabilities for over 20 years. She majored in Psychology and has always been passionate about working with people. Jaimy has worked with Discover Goodwill in various capacities, including Program Management and as a Rehabilitation Liaison for 13 years. Previous to that, she worked with the Therapeutic Recreation Program as an Activities Director. She also owns a small business, teaches classes on Medicaid and Medicare, volunteers in multiple capacities and loves travel and the outdoors.

Jasmine Morgan | Board President

Bonaventure Senior Living

Regina Ellender

Medicare Resource Center

Regina has been working as a Licensed Sales Agent specializing in Medicare for the last three years.  She serves on the Senior Resource Council Board and volunteers on the Henjum Senior Accolades Committee.  Regina loves to help others understand their health insurance options and find the best plan(s) to serve their needs.

Erica Carter

Hospice Care Consultant & Student

Erica has lived in Colorado Springs nearly her entire life, graduating from Palmer High school downtown. She’s worked in some capacity of human services her entire adult life, volunteered in many capacities, and engaged civically anytime she can.  Erica created her family home here, raised children, and watched our city grow and evolve along the way.  Her professional experience ranges through social work and foster care, nearly 25 years working with adults with disabilities, disease intervention and outreach for El Paso County Public Health, as well as Director of Community-Based services for Silver Key Senior services throughout the pandemic. Erica holds a special place in her heart for seniors and has a broad knowledge of the growing population and impending issues while being invested in making Colorado Springs a supportive and thriving age-friendly community. 

Currently, Erica is a Hospice Care Consultant for Compassus which has both Hospice and Palliative programs.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication, and is currently seeking a Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, with a LPC licensure.

Erica’s passion is serving her community and all the diverse populations that come along with it. 

Jaime Wuilliez | Treasurer

The Branch

Jaime Wuilliez is co-owner of a local Marketing Agency, The Branch. With background experiences in marketing, branding, finance and operations, Jaime brings her unique skill set and keen eye for detail and communication.

What she loves about the Senior Resource Council (SRC), is the unique opportunity that SRC has to give back to the community. Helping to bring businesses, education, events and LIFE to seniors in the Colorado Springs Community while also providing networking opportunities to its members. Membership growth and diversifying revenue is a major part of a successful non-profit and ensuring the value is there for members is where longevity exists. 

In 2020, COVID caused hurt to so many, especially the senior communities.  The news of shutdowns and lockdowns gave Jaime an idea for the Holiday Season.  Through her current employer at that time, Orangetheory Fitness, she was able to launch a giveback campaign that is still in place today, “Santa For Seniors.” Each year, this giveback opportunity allows the adoption of a nursing home in need for the Holiday Season. To date, with the support of Orangetheory and its absolutely INCREDIBLE, big-hearted members, we have gifted 4 nursing homes and 400+ seniors, and provided additional needs to those facilities. In addition to this project, we also have gifted teens through Rocky Mountain Kids, pets through the Humane Society and infants/toddlers/children through Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Jaime has a love for seniors, helping others and lives by the idea that you can always do just a little more, especially when it comes to helping others.

Rebecca Melpakam

Abode Hospice

Angie Conway

Premier Senior Care Coordination

Angie started her career in Senior Care as a Social Services Director, and this is where her passion to advocate for seniors really bloomed. She has learned that seniors tend to lose their voice in making decisions for themselves. Thus, the ability to help seniors have a role in their own care became very important to me. This became Angie’s life-work.

Angie’s mission is to provide education, advocacy, and guidance to her clients regarding their long-term care, wherever that may be.

Angie looks forward to many more years of working with the incredible seniors in our community to ensure they are living their best lives possible.

Chad Spencer

EPIC Law

Jody Barker | Advisory Board Member

Pikes Peak Area Agency on Aging

Jody Barker is the Director of the Pikes Peak Area Agency on Aging, which serves three counties, El Paso, Park and Teller. He has served in many roles in his 23+ years in senior service organizations in Colorado. Among those have been Editor of the Life After 50 newspaper, Director of Operations for a home care agency, Central Colorado Regional Director of the Alzheimer’s Association and as Director of the Colorado Springs Senior Center. Jody’s greatest joy is matching services with seniors and their families or enabling staff and services to do so. Jody has served on various boards and commissions over the years, including many with the Senior Resource Council, a member since 1998. He is also currently is on the Colorado Commission on Aging, appointed by Governor Hickenlooper.

Kathy Miller | Advisory Board Member

Gentle Shepherd Home Care

Throughout her career, Kathy has served in many leadership roles and been an innovative organizational leader with expertise in transforming and building results driven teams.

She began her career as a graduate of Southern Methodist University with a degree in Accounting/Finance. After earning her degree, she worked in the Banking/Mortgage Industry as CPA, Sales and Marketing within the staffing industry and finished her corporate career as a Vice President with Adecco, a Global Fortune 500 Staffing company. Kathy founded Gentle Shepherd Home Care in 2016 because she is “that family” with elderly parents and in-laws. Like many families, her search to find qualified, compassionate and qualified caregivers for her loved ones proved to be a huge challenge. She has a passion and dedication for Seniors and their families and has a strong desire to help them find qualified and loving care for their elderly or chronically ill family members. 

Stacy Osbourne | | Senior Resource Council Board Member

Stacy Osborne | Advisory Board Member

Beneficent

Stacy is a Bio-Graduate of Texas A&M with a Bachelor of Science Degree undergrad, and the University of Texas with an MBA. She is one of 5 Certified Medicaid Planners in the State of Colorado, as listed on the CMP Board website. She is the owner of Beneficent and has doubled the number of families served in the past 12 months since she purchased the business. Prior to Beneficent, she has owned several large service companies and a consulting business where she had clients who needed expertise in growing their business to either become an absentee owner, pass the business generationally or sell their business. She owned a tax practice, an Oil and Gas Drilling company, and a Mold Abatement company working with homeowners insurance companies. Her business background extends to areas outside the healthcare field, which gives her some diversity in the ability to see various points of view when problem solving!

Carrie Elwell | Advistory Board Member

Creekside Payroll and Business Services

Carrie is a Pikes Peak Region native who started Creekside Payroll and Business Services in 2015, specializing in non-profit bookkeeping and payroll.  She has always had a heart for helping others beginning with working for a stellar local group of attorneys as a paralegal.  She has enjoyed volunteering for many different organizations in Colorado Springs and Woodland Park.  However, Carrie developed a strong sense of passion for the non-profit sector while working as a financial director/CFO at a residential treatment center nearly 16 years ago.  This experience gave her insight on how non-profit organizations operate and gave her an appreciation of how she can make a difference and improve the lives of so many in our community.   She cherishes spending time with her husband and children as well as her two pug mix pups. She enjoys going to baseball games, hockey games and concerts in her free time.