Your vocational services specialist (VSS) can provide you the tools, resources and guidance to help you identify and achieve your return to work goals.
Services include:
- Supporting your return to work efforts.
- Assisting with resumes, interviewing skills, and current job market information.
- Evaluating needs, job readiness, job accommodations, and job development.
- Career counseling and guidance.
- Identifying education and/or training opportunities to update job skills.
- Coordinating with WorkSource partners and community resources.
- Education and assisting with Option 2 and Preferred Worker benefits.
Visit your local WorkSource Center to connect with an L&I Vocational Services Specialist who can help navigate your return to work after a workplace injury.
| County | L&I at WorkSource Location(s) | WorkSource VSS |
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| Whatcom, Skagit, Island & San Juan | WorkSource Whatcom (Bellingham) WorkSource Skagit (Mt. Vernon) WorkSource Island (Oak Harbor) |
Michelle Lapointe, CDMS michelle.lapointe@lni.wa.gov Phone: 360-982-1561 Fax: 360-704-1966 |
| Snohomish | WorkSource Everett | Donna Gillon, M.A., CRC donna.gillon@lni.wa.gov Phone: 425-258-6314 Fax: 360-704-1966 |
| King & South Snohomish | WorkSource North Seattle | Cam Stein, CDMS cameron.stein@lni.wa.gov Phone: 425-961-2776 Fax: 360-704-1967 |
| King | WorkSource Auburn | Cathy Spak, CDMS catherine.spak@lni.wa.gov Phone: 206-305-0168 Fax: 360-704-1967 |
| King | WorkSource Rainier | Tiana Torres, B.A., CDMS tiana.torres@lni.wa.gov Phone: 206-939-3822 Fax: 360-704-1967 |
| Kitsap, Jefferson & Clallam | WorkSource Kitsap (Silverdale) WorkSource Clallam (Sequim) |
Chelsea Roe, M.A., CRC, CDMS chelsea.roe@lni.wa.gov Cell Phone: 360-535-9313 Fax: 360-308-2848 |
| Pierce | WorkSource Pierce (Tacoma) | Gillian Fox, M.A., CRC, VE gillian.fox@lni.wa.gov Cell Phone: 253-278-4610 |
| Thurston, Grays Harbor, Mason, Pacific & Lewis | WorkSource Thurston (Olympia) | Jean Edwards, CDMS jean.edwards@lni.wa.gov Cell Phone: 360-584-8827 Fax: 360-704-1962 |
| Clark, Cowlitz, Wahkiakum, Skamania & Klickitat | WorkSource Vancouver | Marilene Cannon, M.A., CRC, CEAS I marilene.cannon@lni.wa.gov Cell Phone: 360-904-6308 Fax: 360-704-1962 |
| Benton, Franklin, Columbia, Walla Walla, Adams & Grant | WorkSource Columbia Basin (Kennewick) | Michelle Bishop-Gardner, M.A., CRC, ABVE/D, CDMS, GCDF michelle.bishopgardner@lni.wa.gov Phone: 509-734-5297 Cell Phone: 509-539-3647 Fax: 360-704-1968 |
| Yakima, Kittitas, Douglas, Chelan & Okanogan | WorkSource Yakima (Union Gap) | Cindy Verduzco, CDMS cindy.verduzco@lni.wa.gov Phone: 509-237-2071 Fax: 360-704-1968 |
| Spokane, Stevens, Lincoln & Whitman | WorkSource Spokane | Ellen Nagourney, M.S., ABVE-D, CDMS, ACRE ellen.nagourney@lni.wa.gov Phone: 509-934-6597 Fax: 360-704-1979 |
| ERTW Regional Supervisors | ||
| Janis Flaherty, CRC janis.flaherty@lni.wa.gov Phone: 425-530-9120 Locations: WorkSource Everett, WorkSource Whatcom, WorkSource Skagit & WorkSource Islands |
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| Tony Newbauer, CRC anthony.newbauer@lni.wa.gov Phone: 206-515-2833 Locations: WorkSource Auburn, WorkSource Rainier & WorkSource North Seattle |
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| Josh Rodero, CDMS joshua.rodero@lni.wa.gov Phone: 253-596-3880 Cell Phone: 253-318-6896 Locations: WorkSource Pierce, WorkSource Kitsap & WorkSource Clallam |
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| Jeri Parrish, CDMS jeri.parrish@lni.wa.gov Phone: 360-522-6032 Locations: WorkSource Vancouver & WorkSource Thurston |
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| Mindy Jackson, CRC mindy.jackson@lni.wa.gov Phone: 509-735-0154 Cell Phone: 509-378-5747 Locations: WorkSource Yakima & WorkSource Columbia Basin |
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| Candace Shroll, CDMS candace.shroll@lni.wa.gov Phone :509-324-2593 Cell Phone: 509-960-0325 Locations: WorkSource Spokane |
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