Rainbow Project Staff

The Rainbow Project currently has nineteen full- and part-time staff. This includes an Executive Director, Clinical Manager, Referrals & Community Programs Coordinator, Financial Coordinator, Administrative Manager, Administrative Assistant, and Adult & Family Therapists, Child & Adult Family Therapists, Child & Family Therapists, Community Services Facilitator, Service Facilitator, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, and a Registered Nurse.

All clinical staff have masters degrees in social work, educational psychology, counseling psychology, or a related discipline. All clinical staff are also licensed clinical social workers or professional counselors, or are on the path to becoming licensed. Throughout the academic year, The Rainbow Project also hosts three clinical interns throughout the year — a graduate psychology student, a Mendota Mental Health intern, and a Resident from the University of Wisconsin's Child & Adolescent Psychiatry program.

In addition to working directly with children & families, Rainbow Project staff are also actively involved in various local and state-wide committees, task forces and collaborative efforts. Some of which include:

• Children of Violent Homes Project

• Dane County Commission on Sensitive Crimes

• Dane County's Child Abuse & Neglect Coordinated Community Response Task Force

• Dane County's Children, Youth & Families Consortium

• Dane County's Domestic Violence Coordinated Community Response Task Force

• Five Agency Cooperative Effort (FACE)

• Rotary Club

• Trauma-Informed Community Advisory Council

• United Way of Dane County committees & groups

Rainbow Project Board of Directors

The Rainbow Project is also overseen by a Board of Directors made up of dedicated & experienced individuals from the Madison community. Our current Board of Directors consists of:

• Carola Gaines, President

• Treater Prestine, Vice President

• Dr. Ian Carroll, Secretary

• Sharyl Kato

• Robin Valley-Massey

• Dr. Laura Houser

• Michelle Vassallo

• Alyssa Schultz

• Mee Soon Langohr