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Meet Our Staff
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Patrick Weber Pat oversees the daily functioning of the WARE program and its staff, from case registration to tracking to reporting. He meets regularly with child and family social workers statewide to help them utilize services on the WARE and NWAE websites. Patrick is an adoption professional with over 30 years of management and leadership in special needs adoption. In addition to completing over 100 domestic and international adoptions, Pat managed Washington’s Adoption and Adoption Support programs for Children’s Administration for over 15 years. Early on in his adoption career he coordinated the emergency placement of 150 children from the Vietnamese Airlift. His interest in adoption as a lifelong process involved him as a founding board member with the Washington Adoptive Reunion Movement (WARM). A devoted family man and married for over 40 years, Patrick and his wife have two adult children. |
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Maggie Cotton Maggie writes and edits the countless biographical profiles of waiting children for the NWAE, WARE and OARE websites. She also lends advocacy and support to families seeking to adopt. Although adopted as an older child, it hadn't occurred to Maggie while getting her degree in human services, doing graduate work in psychology, and conducting crisis intervention with families and children for 15 years, to have a career in adoption. Now she cannot imagine working in any other field. "I have come full circle. There were loving adoptive parents for me when I desperately needed them. Now for over 20 years I have been privileged to be helping other waiting children." Maggie treasures the moments she gets to spend with two awesome teenage brothers to whom she has been "Nana" ever since they were babies. |
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Tyler Helbach, BA Tyler provides overall program support and information technology expertise for NWAE, WARE and OARE. He maintains and updates child profiles, and gives recruitment assistance to the Wednesday’s Child, Specialized Recruitment and Kidsfest projects. A 2007 graduate of Willamette University, Tyler got his B.A. in History while focusing a minor on American Ethnic Studies. He first became interested in adoption issues when in 2006 he spent a semester in Nepal, teaching English and working with children who no longer had active parents in their lives. After spending this time abroad, Tyler went on to concentrate his major on how the popular discovery of child abuse in the 1960's shaped our current understanding of child welfare issues. A native of Seattle, Tyler is happy and excited to be back where he grew up, working for NWAE and starting graduate school. |
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Stephanie Pride, BFA Stephanie updates and maintains child photos and profiles on the NWAE, WARE and OARE websites. She also helps with design of printed materials and website features. Stephanie graduated with a degree in Visual Communication Design from the University of Washington. She has done design work for Seattle Goodwill and the University of Washington, in addition to freelance projects. Stephanie appreciates the collaborative atmosphere of nonprofits, and values working with people who are passionate about what they do. Stephanie enjoys gardening, vegan cooking and baking, and the art of letterpress printing. |
