Lisa is a Licensed Independent Social Worker through the State of Ohio with the credentials to supervise (LISW-S).  She has an undergraduate degree from Kent State University and a Master of Science Degree in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University. Ms. Manning has 33 years’ experience working with children and families for programs in Lake, Cuyahoga, and Geauga County. She has been with extension for 18 years initially as an FCS educator, then adding the 4-H youth development program 11 years ago. Her areas of experience, prior to coming to extension consisted of county children services work, therapist and supervisor in residential treatment programs with emotionally and behaviorally challenged youth, administration and supervision of early childhood programming as the Home Me Grow Director and supervisor, behavioral health assessments in emergency room, parenting classes, and clinical social work practice in private and non profit agencies providing assessments, individual, group and family counseling with children youth and families with diverse issues and backgrounds.

Lisa’ s FCS responsibilities have included providing Parenting Education programs for mandated individuals, as well as anyone in the community who is interested in taking a parent education class. She has also provided financial literacy programming for youth and adults, and professional development to Children Services social workers. She has created research curricula and programs, in the area of FCS, to be utilized for extension programs across the state. She is one of the co-authors of the Successful Co-Parenting Program that is utilized across the state for parents divorced and acclimating to their new co-parenting roles. She has also been one of the authors updating the Real Money. Real World curriculum. She sits on various committees in the community that she collaborates with to better the lives of children and families, such as Family Children First Council (FCFC) and the Lake County National Alliance for Mental Illness boards (NAMI). She has attended the Parent cafes training and assisted in implementing the parent café program in Lake County.  She also is a certified trainer in the Real Colors personality identification training, which assists individuals to understand their personality traits and how their personality type interacts with others, and Trauma Informed Care instructor, and is currently working to provide mental health awareness in the schools in Lake County in partnership with NAMI. She is currently working on the Peacefully Parenting Curriculum to become evidence based, which she is one of the original authors. She leads the state Parenting team.

In her 4-H responsibilities she oversees the 4-H youth development program. She recruits and manages the volunteers working , provides training and training materials to be used across the state for youth and adult volunteers assuring that protocols and standards put in place by both the county and the state are adhered to. She Co-Developed the Universities Child Abuse and Neglect minors tpolicy training program, which is a university requirement for any individual staff, volunteer or graduate assistant who has care, custody or control of youth in any venue at The Ohio State University. She has also been one of the authors updating the 4-H New Volunteer Training. Both programs utilized and presented to county, region and state volunteers, as well as offered as an online training through scarlet canvas. She oversees all the areas of the Lake County 4-H: livestock, saddle horse, small animal, shooting sports and family consumer science. She works with the Lake County Agricultural Society (Fair board) in collaboration with the state 4-H office to provide the youth and volunteers with direction and oversight in all the above areas of 4-H and the junior fair exhibition. She is the certified quality assurance coordinator for all youth involved in livestock projects. This year a partnership was initiated by Judge Michale Deleone to work with extension and the State Highway Patrol to implement CARTEENS, which began in January and has served well over 200 youth and parents in just a few months. She is a member of the 4-H healthy living design team.

Lisa is the camp director for the Lake County Week of 4–H at Camp Whitewood, as well as a member and vice president of the Camp Whitewood board. She recruits adult volunteers and youth counselors for that week as well as develops curricula. She is also responsible for training all the youth camp counselors in the core competences provided by the state 4-H program and putting together all the recreational activities for that week.

Lisa resurrected the Lake County 4-H exchange program. The exchange program is a 2-year commitment, it takes selected youth from Lake County to travel to another state and experience their 4-H program. Lake County reciprocates by hosting the state the following year. The 4-H exchange also completed a cultural immersion program in Puerto Rico.

Lisa can be reached at 440-853-2632, miller.4209@osu.edu