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Executive Director
Holly Staley is the Executive Director of the SGSM Network. After receiving her Masters in Social Work from Arizona State University, Holly served as the Area Agency on Aging director for the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, which served 21 Tribal governments throughout the state. Along with supervising 17 senior programs throughout rural Tribal lands, she developed programs to train Tribal members to become certified home health care providers and contract with the state Medicaid program. As a result of these programs, Tribal members were able to bring their elders from urban nursing homes back to their homes and their native traditions.
Holly returned to St. Louis in 2000. She began working with SGSM, which has grown from a small, Catholic ministry to a service organization working with 35 faith based partners organized in four clusters in developing programs by and for senior citizens. This growth was due largely in part to the development of SGSM Network’s VISTA program in 2004, which today hosts 10 VISTA volunteers. In 2006, Under her leadership, SGSM Network received an Honorable Mention from the Archstone Foundation (and the Gerontological Health Section of the American Public Health Association) in its Award for Excellence in Program Innovation. Holly also received the Dorothy Day Justice Seeker Award from the Archdiocese’s 2006 Catholic Women Awards, and SGSM Network was awarded one of the prizes for the 2007Social Entrepreneurship Innovation Competition, Washington University School of Business.