Sarah Taylor, MSW, LSW is the Director of the Healthy Beginnings at Home Program at the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association. She is responsible for the implementation and representation of the Healthy Beginnings at Home program to the community and community providers and is leading its expansion into Montgomery County. Sarah will oversee the Housing Support Specialists and the Housing Support Agency that will provide the case management and direct care to the women and families involved in the program. She will work along side the Housing Support Agency and COHHIO to ensure that all data collected through the research is accurately represented in the birth outcome data for Healthy Beginnings at Home and Montgomery County.
Prior to working at the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association, Sarah had a long history of working in the homeless system. Most of her time was spent working with chronically homeless individuals who had been diagnosed with a severe and persistent mental illness and/or was struggling with a substance use diagnosis. Sarah got her start working as an intensive case manager at Daybreak working with men and women in both the homeless shelters. She quickly moved into different management roles overseeing case management teams and running a supportive housing program for women and families called Kettering Commons. She has also worked at OneFifteen Living, as the clinical supervisor, overseeing their admissions, discharges, and clinical needs of the clients who came into the 3.1 residential setting. She is excited to be back working within the homeless system at a more systemic level.
Sarah graduated from Wright State University in 2018 with her bachelor’s degree in social work and obtained her Social Work License soon after, practicing as a licensed social worker since July 2018. She is currently working on obtaining her master’s in social work with the hopes to be done in December 2023. After this, Sarah will work towards obtaining her Independent Social Work License over the course of two years. She hopes to be able to continue to work in the community on a macro level advocating for change and quality within the homeless systems.
