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BY DAVE MORIN, INTERIM CEO

I’m Dave Morin, interim CEO of Samaritas, a married father of two, a
South Lyon resident, and a devoted Samaritas patron. I credit my wife
and fellow Samaritas Giving Hope Capital Campaign co-chair, Linda
Morin, for exposing me to the Samaritas mission.

As a result, we’ve supported Samaritas in many ways over nearly four
decades, including my work as a Samaritas board member. Before
becoming interim CEO, I served on the Samaritas board for seven
years and spent nearly two years as the board chair. During that time,
I helped the organization solve some of its most significant issues.

As interim CEO, I’ve been pleased to get into the details with key
leaders, employees, and community partners to figure out how we
leverage Stewardship and Innovation to help even more clients. This
collaboration is vital as we take these next steps together.

Increasing Advocacy Work
While meeting with community leaders and government officials, we’re emphasizing how our most critical programs can lead to healthier
Michigan communities. This more aggressive government affairs strategy can help our legislators better understand how our workers are
compensated, programming gaps, and the complications of housing our clients equitably.

Focusing on Outcomes Revamping Programs Celebrating Our Employees
We’re committed to meeting the needs of Innovation can be inconvenient, but this Stewardship also means celebrating the
those we serve. It’s the core of challenge is necessary to produce quality successes of our Rockstar Employees to
Stewardship. For that reason, we organized results. This year, we’ll experiment with new build a culture of exceptionalism.
a team to scrutinize how we deliver services pilot programs to learn how to produce more Observing the fantastic leadership
to our clients and better demonstrate the effective products, services, and engagement characteristics of our workforce will
impact we’re making in the lives of our to better address the needs of all motivate us all to excel.
clients. stakeholders.

Samaritas is doing God's work and impacting so many lives every day. Being a small part of this process is truly an honor and privilege.

God bless,
Dave Morin

SPRING/SUMMER 2023, ISSUE NO. 14

3 MISSION SIZZLE 12-13 EVENTS 20 FAMILY PRESERVATION
4 CHANGING THE WAY WE SERVE 14-15 FAITH IN ACTION 21 LEGACY ADOPTION SERVICES
5 ADVOCACY 15 SENIOR COMMUNITIES 22-23 NEW AMERICANS
6-7 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS 17 ROCK STARS
8-9 ROCK STARS 18-19 FOSTER CARE
10-11 SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER
For general inquiries, email info@samaritas.org | For more information visit samaritas.org | Cover: Mariam, Photo by: Samaritas Staff