Ralph Lee Roach

Background

Roach, Ralph Lee was born on March 27, 1957 in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States. Son of William A. and Mary B. (Collins) Roach.

Education

Bachelor, Messiah College, 1982. Master of Science, Shippensburg University, 1985. Postgraduate, Kennedy-We.

University, since 1992.

Career

Inventory controller Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, 1977-1985. Therapist, crisis interviewer Stevens Mental Health, Carlisle, 1983-1986. Psychotherapist, teenline counselor Holy Spirit Community Mental Health Institute, Camp Hill, since 1986.

Presentor, consultant Lebanon (Pennsylvania) Valley College, 1986. Vocational training manager Center for Industrial Training, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, 1985-1987. Program manager living unlimited program University Hospital Rehabilitation/Children Pennsylvania University Hospital Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, 1987-1992.

Corporation officer, clinical director Avalon Affiliates Rehabilitation Consultants, Inc. (now MRW, Inc.), Duncannon, 1993-1995, MRW, Inc., 1995-1997. Behavior specialist and mobile therapist United Staffing Superior vena cava syndrome/Edgewater Psychiatric Center, 1998-1999.

Teenline counselor Holy Spirti Hospital/E. Pennsboro High School, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, since 1999. Faculty instructor department psychology Elizabethtown College, 1987. Presenter at professional conferences.

Achievements

• Ralph Lee Roach has been listed as a noteworthy human services and rehabilitation consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Education director Cumberland Valley Church, Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, 1980-1983. Presentor Governor's Committee on Handicapped, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1986. Presentor various state/national conferences on vocational rehabilitation, Harrisburg, since 1986.

Member American Counseling Association, American Academy Rehabilitation Medicine, Pennsylvania Specialists in Group Work, Pennsylvania Crisis Intervention Association, Pennsylvania Association Rehabilitation Facilities, Keystone State Head Injury Foundation.

Interests

• Avocations: boating, fishing, black powder hunting, gardening, Civil War history and curio collecting.

Connections

Married Susan Diane Schirmacher, August 17, 1985.

Father:

William A. Roach

Mother:

Mary B. (Collins) Roach

Spouse:

Susan Diane Schirmacher