Sarah Hauck coordinates and oversees Workforce Development activities for Mercy Care, and the broader Arizona Association of Health Plans (AzAHP) Workforce Development Alliance team – a statewide collaborative for Arizona’s health plan providers. She leads across these organizations to identify need gaps and develop specialized learning strategies to improve organizational performance. These include the creation of state-of-the-art, performance-based training and educational tools, as well as continual analysis of programs and initiatives to ensure maximal performance and ROI.
Sarah also coordinates and oversees Workforce Development activities for the Arizona Association of Health Plans’ Workforce Development Alliance team, which is a statewide collaborative for Arizona’s health plan providers. Her work includes the development and implementation of learning standards, tools, templates, and reporting requirements. She is an expert facilitator in numerous course topics, including cultural competency, trauma informed care, assertive community treatment, and family psychoeducation.
Sarah began her career in Bloomington, Indiana, as a direct care provider to children with behavioral and emotional special needs before expanding her work (and moving to Arizona) to include individual, group, and family therapies. From there she took on rapidly expanding responsibilities, managing training and Workforce Development programs benefitting Arizona’s communities. Sarah holds a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology (with a minor in Biology) from Indiana University.