Meet the Lower Shore Early Intervention Team:

Maci Elkins, MSW, Program Manager, Behavior Interventionist

Maci recently move to the Eastern Shore from Northwest Arkansas where she worked as a cognitive-behavior therapist with behavior disordered children and their families. She has a Master’s in social work from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s in Sociology from with University of Utah, where she grew up. Maci has worked as a school social worker, serving children pre-k through 8th grade, and as an in-patient psychiatric social worker, both in the Chicago area. She currently resides in Salisbury with her husband and three children.

Margo Takacs, BA, Behavior Interventionist

Margo is a native to the Easter shore. She earned a BS in elementary education and special education/blind and visually impaired from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. She spent two years teaching the blind and visually impaired, and five years teaching special needs inclusive kindergarten, while using her Spanish-speaking abilities to communicate with her students and their parents. Margo resides with her husband and daughter in Berlin where she dedicates her time to various organizations, including the local CASA chapter of Worcester County.

LSEIP Welcomes a New Behavior Interventionist to the Program!

Jennifer has a diverse background in both early childhood education and human services. She graduated from Towson University with a B.S in Psychology. She then went on to study at the College of Notre Dame in their Accelerated Program in Early Childhood Education. Jennifer’s professional experience began with Head Start in Baltimore City. She was a teacher for the program for two years and then moved on to the position of Family Service Coordinator and Disability Coordinator for another three years for the same program.

Jennifer took a year sabbatical from Head Start in 2003 to teach at a bilingual school in Copan, Honduras. She taught Kindergarten at the school and was also involved in various projects to help end poverty in the community.  Upon returning to the States, she decided to move to the Eastern Shore to be closer to her family. Most recently Jennifer has been the lead teacher and childcare director at The Tidewater School in Bishopville, MD.  It was during this time she earned her certification in Pre-K and Kindergarten Montessori. Jennifer lives in Berlin and is very excited about working for the Lower Shore Childcare Resource Center as a part of the Lower Shore Early Intervention team.      

Sandy Kerrigan, BSW, Worcester County Behavior Interventionist

Sandy Kerrigan moved to the area from Southern Maryland in 1996 when she began attending Salisbury University. She graduated from SU with a BA in social work.
In 2004 she returned to the university to obtain her Master’s. In the meantime, Sandy has been working for the Worcester County Health Department for almost five years. She started out on the Psychiatric Rehabilitation team, counseling teens and elementary-aged children. For the last two years she has been coordinating the Early Intervention Program in Worcester County. Sandy currently resides in Bishopville with her husband and newborn daughter and will graduate with a Master's in social work this coming spring.