2022 New Board Member Bios
Kelly Dudley, MSW, LCSW
Kelly Dudley is a clinical social worker with 20 years of experience working for children and their families. She currently serves as clinical faculty for Missouri State University in the School of Social Work. She is passionate about the well-being of all children in Missouri. Prior to her role at Missouri State University, she served as the Missouri Department of Mental Health's Early Childhood Wellness Expert.
Alicia Hall, MEd, LPC, NCC
Alicia Hall, MEd, LPC, NCC, is the Behavioral Health Coordinator for Vision for Children At Risk in St. Louis. Via her role there and with SkiWise Health & Wellness Services, she strives to utilize a Clinical Coordinated Care Approach to improve the lives of individuals, families, communities and front-line responders by creating, enhancing, and accessing a system of support through a strengths-based, clinically relevant, consumer-driven model. She aims to facilitate behavioral health services for professionals and non-professionals that encourage a safe, welcoming, engaging, culturally appropriate and responsive environment for treatment.
Diana Perry, MA
Diana Perry is the Region 5 Area Director for Missouri First Steps. She grew up in South Kansas City, and attended Missouri State University where she earned a Bachelors in Physical Education. She then taught elementary PE and coached High School Volleyball before returning to earn a Masters in Guidance and Counseling. She was an elementary counselor in the North Kansas City School District and then became a Parent Educator with the Liberty School District when she chose to stay at home with her kids. She became a service coordinator with Missouri First Steps and eventually stepped into her current role as Region 5 Area Director. She has been married for 28 years and has 2 children and a grandchild.
Tamika Ross
Tamika Ross is a wife, mother of four, and third-year law student at Washburn University School of Law. She has 21 years of parenting experience, loves being a parent, and is an advocate and student of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI). She believes investing in parents is a sure way to invest in our future - she reaches out to mentor other parents because she believes one of the most significant ways to help children is to give parents alternatives to "generational parenting." She says, "I pursued law to help others and would be delighted to do my part in advancing policies that support all families."
Ann Young, MA
Ann Young is the Director of Missouri Programmatic Services at Parents as Teachers National Center. She has been working with children and families for 30 years. Her experience includes over 15 years with Head Start and Early Head Start programs, over 9 years with Parents as Teachers National Center, and 6 years in other not-for-profit early childhood settings. She holds a Masters of Arts in Early Childhood, and states her passion has always been serving the whole child through a focus on whole family well-being.