Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson Counties

Behavioral Health Specialists

Crook County

Jacki Music

Jacki Music was born and raised in Alaska before relocating to Prineville, Oregon, where she now supports her dad. She is passionate about helping individuals and families build on their strengths, navigate challenges, and achieve meaningful goals. She values compassion, collaboration, and creating a supportive environment where people feel heard, supported, and empowered. She works for Best Care Treatment Services. In addition to this position, she also serves as a Parent Partner, Case Manager, and Peer Support Specialist. She is passionate about supporting individuals and families by connecting them with resources, promoting recovery, and improving behavioral health outcomes through collaboration and person-centered care.

Deschutes County

Julie Newton, MS, OTR/L

julie.newton@deschutes.org
458-292-6441

Julie Newton earned her bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from the University
of Puget Sound and her advanced master’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of Washington. She has been an occupational therapist for over 30 years, starting her career in early intervention and early childhood special education. Julie has been working with older adults for the last 20 years, primarily as a rehab manager and clinician in the home health setting. Julie is excited to support older adults as they live their best lives in Deschutes County. Julie lives in Bend with her husband and two sons and spends much of her free time watching her boys compete in various sports.

Jefferson County

Vickie Johnson

vickiej@bestcaretreatment.org

541-475-6575 ext. 4030

Although her formal work with older adults did not begin until adulthood, Vickie grew up
in South FL where a majority of the residents were older. In this environment, she learned about the lives and concerns of many cultures of older adults in their everyday lives, lives often of great vitality and energy. Although she was born in Bethesda, MD, her father’s sudden disability necessitated the family move to South, FL when she was 8. She experienced a major loss at age 11 when her father died, which she later realized was the beginning of her lifelong interest in grief.

Her professional work with aging adults began while attending Duke Divinity School in
Durham, NC, she worked as a chaplain at the hospital in UNC-Chapel Hill assigned to
floors with aging populations, caring for them both spiritually and psychologically, both
after surgeries and during the ends of their lives. She also provided care and support to
the professional staff on these floors, helping them with their stress and, at times, grief
issues. While in seminary, she also took a course in Death and Dying.

As part of her first career as a United Methodist minister, she was appointed to a church
in St. Petersburg, FL where the entire congregation was over 65 years old. As a 27-
year-old, she led worship for and counselled these members as they both dealt with
their own aging as well as the potential dying of their church itself due to decreasing
membership. In this environment, she learned a great deal about resilience and
strength. After preaching a sermon about the wonderful, life-giving aspects of friendship,
a member told her that, while her sermon was good, that many of their friends were
deceased. She learned an important lesson there about her own need for cultural
humility, which she has carried forward into many avenues of her life. She also
performed many funerals, learning a great deal about being and working with caregivers
and family members.

After the ministry, she worked as a case manager at the County Home in Palm Beach
County, FL on a floor specifically for those with HIV/AIDS when there was still a great
deal of stigma and few medicinal interventions. She worked with the multiple layers of
grief with these residents as well as the staff on the wing.

While in this position, Vickie went back to school to earn her Master of Social Work at
Barry University in Miami Shores, FL and, after moving to Oregon, became licensed as
a social worker in 2002. Her social work career has included working in a nursing
home, as well as work with many older adults in corrections, addiction, trauma,
disability, and mental illness, as well as experience in all areas of diversity. Her work
has included program development. She brings to her current position a tendency
toward creative thinking, a love of research, a belief in the ability of humans to weather
many forms of adversity, and a view that a sense of humor is essential in life.

She enjoys reading, looking for the perfect cheeseburger, the Oxford Comma, playing
with her dog, Ranger, and researching her own genealogy.

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