Karen Quick Announces Retirement

After 28 years of employment with the NW Human Service Center, Karen Quick, Regional Aging Services Program Administrator, announces her March 29th retirement date.

Quick began her career in June of 1975 as a Social Worker for Towner County Social Services in Cando, ND, where she was employed for nearly ten years. In February 1985 she began working for NW Human Service Center in Williston and has touched the lives of many people.

Quick has held three very important and fulfilling roles during her career in Williston:

1) Admissions – for the Therapy Unit

2) After Care Coordinator – where she helped to transition people from hospitals in to the community.

3) Regional Aging Services Program Administrator for Divide, McKenzie and Williams counties – where half her time is spent overseeing contracts for congregate & home delivered meals and health maintenance, a quarter of her time is spent doing Options Counseling for those 60 years of age and older and the remaining time is spent providing Family Caregiver Support Services.

Although Quick tremendously enjoys her job and helping others, she’s happy to be moving closer to her two adult children and grandchildren in Roseville, MN with her husband of nearly 35 years.

When asked what she’d miss the most about her position, Quick replied “I’ll miss the close connections I’ve made with the elderly, their interesting stories and words of wisdom and I’ll miss the professional people I work with.”