Staff
Heather Comstock, The HubDementia Care Educator and certified as a Teepa Snow Physical Approach to Brain Change™ Trainer and Coach
After receiving a B.A. in Social Sciences at the University of Wyoming, prior to her efforts with The Hub, Heather worked with a Sheridan-based national real estate franchise as an associate broker and later as the manager of the firm. In 2015, she began to design her future around a passion to work with older adults. She joined a group of Sheridan professionals that were beginning to study the creation of a dementia friendly community in Sheridan. Soon thereafter, Heather became the part-time Family Caregiver Services Coordinator at the Sheridan Senior Center. To enhance her skills in community development, she attended the “Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations that Matter” conference in South Dakota. Heather was one of 12 people selected internationally to attend the Michael Verde’s Memory Bridge Retreat (enhancing emotional communication with those living with dementia) in 2016. At the same time, she was working with a small team to submit a proposal for the Administration for Community Living Alzheimer’s Initiative. When the Sheridan Senior Center received notification that Sheridan was one of 11 recipients in the US in the fall of 2016, Heather became the Dementia Care Educator. She has now received her Dementia Care Certificate from the University of Wyoming and has become certified as a trainer and a coach for the Teepa Snow Positive Approach to Care (PAC). Heather and a small group of volunteers are “blazing the trail” to provide education to care partners about how to use the “Validation Method” to help in emotionally connecting to those that they are caring for. Heather is excited to be able to provide dementia-specific care partner skill preparations to our community through workshops and one-on-one coaching sessions. Watch our workshop calendar for dementia specific care partner education opportunities.
Heather’s Phone – 307-461-5955 Email – hcomstock@thehubsheridan.org