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Tami Brucato '98

Tami Brucato, class of 1998, has had an exciting career in the social work field over the last two decades.  She explains, “I was hired as a Mental Health Specialist the summer after I graduated from WKU with my Bachelor’s degree [Major in Psychology, Minor in Sociology], while continuing to work as an Assistant Deli Manager at Walmart. I worked from 1998-2001 at LifeSkills and left after starting graduate school in the Fall of 2001. I spent the next decade experiencing different types of work in the mental health field all around the state, including doing trainings for the Department of Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities (DBHDID), and working for several non-profit agencies, until I decided to return to LifeSkills and pursue my LCSW through clinical supervision. In 2014, I launched the Mobile Crisis program through Adult Crisis Stabilization Unit, and in 2015 I transitioned to my current position as a School-Based Child/Family Therapist in the Logan County office [Russellville]. I obtained my LCSW this past summer.  What I enjoy most about working at Lifeskills is my coworkers.  We have an amazing team in Logan County, working together to provide trauma-informed services across this region.” 

 

Thinking back to her time in the Sociology Department at WKU, Tami reflects on one of her favorite teachers, “Dr Kathy Kalab was the absolute best professor I’ve ever had. She was so ‘real’ and passionate about whatever she was focusing on in the moment. I took three of her classes and couldn’t get higher than a “C,” but she was so amazing that I kept signing up for more! I remember the flight of the bumblebee, butterfly-phobia, and jumping on top of her desk to get our attention.  I once missed her class and wrote the required email to let her know why I would not be there (I was assistant deli manager and had to drive to another store and pick up supplies for the local store), and subsequently, she shared with many that a student once missed class to go pick up frozen chicken, as it became a favorite “excuse”! I still to this very day will get into an elevator and consider facing the back in a crowd as a tribute to my very favorite professor.”

 


 


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