Meet Your SHC Leadership Team
Robert Lippman, Co-Chair, [email protected]
Robert Lippman is currently an MSW for both Horizon Hospice and Providence Charity medicalclinic (associated with House of Charity). He’s currently enrolled in a doctorate program though Arizona State University with an emphasis behavioral health and management. Robert is home grown, born and raised in Spokane, WA and attended Northwest Christian High School and played Bigfoot basketball for
the Community Colleges of Spokane, Northwest Nazarene University and professionally in Australia. Robert’s influence for social work is rooted in an upbringing by a single mother, who had a passion for serving vulnerable peoples and advocating for injustice within defective systems. Robert views lifestyle change from both a population health management perspective and through the lens motivation
interviewing. Robert is dedicated toward enhancing the value of relationships, among the people we serve to the systems we navigate through. “Be completely humble and gentile; be patient, bearing with one another in love” EPH 4:2
Barry Barfield, Administrator, [email protected]
Barry began his involvement with homelessness in 1976 as a volunteer at St. Joseph Center in Venice, California, where over the next eight years he served on its board and worked to open a poverty law legal clinic. In 1991 when his family moved to Spokane one of Barry’s first community engagements was to meet with Donna Hanson, the then director of Catholic Charities, to explore how he could get involved in Spokane. Since 1992 Barry has worked at Gonzaga Preparatory School seeking to help students walk with the marginalized. In 2010 Barry took over the Spokane Urban Plunge program which allows community members to learn about homelessness from encounters with those who are or have been houseless. Barry volunteers with Hospice of Spokane and holds a B.A. in Theology and a law degree.
Julie Garcia, Co-Chair , [email protected]
The Executive Director of Jewels Helping Hands
Rob Bryson, [email protected]
Cristy Coleman, [email protected]
Robert Lippman is currently an MSW for both Horizon Hospice and Providence Charity medicalclinic (associated with House of Charity). He’s currently enrolled in a doctorate program though Arizona State University with an emphasis behavioral health and management. Robert is home grown, born and raised in Spokane, WA and attended Northwest Christian High School and played Bigfoot basketball for
the Community Colleges of Spokane, Northwest Nazarene University and professionally in Australia. Robert’s influence for social work is rooted in an upbringing by a single mother, who had a passion for serving vulnerable peoples and advocating for injustice within defective systems. Robert views lifestyle change from both a population health management perspective and through the lens motivation
interviewing. Robert is dedicated toward enhancing the value of relationships, among the people we serve to the systems we navigate through. “Be completely humble and gentile; be patient, bearing with one another in love” EPH 4:2
Barry Barfield, Administrator, [email protected]
Barry began his involvement with homelessness in 1976 as a volunteer at St. Joseph Center in Venice, California, where over the next eight years he served on its board and worked to open a poverty law legal clinic. In 1991 when his family moved to Spokane one of Barry’s first community engagements was to meet with Donna Hanson, the then director of Catholic Charities, to explore how he could get involved in Spokane. Since 1992 Barry has worked at Gonzaga Preparatory School seeking to help students walk with the marginalized. In 2010 Barry took over the Spokane Urban Plunge program which allows community members to learn about homelessness from encounters with those who are or have been houseless. Barry volunteers with Hospice of Spokane and holds a B.A. in Theology and a law degree.
Julie Garcia, Co-Chair , [email protected]
The Executive Director of Jewels Helping Hands
Rob Bryson, [email protected]
Cristy Coleman, [email protected]
- You can contact the Leadership Team via e-mail using the Contact option in the top page menu.