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Mary Liveratti, Deputy Director
Department of Health and Human Services
 

Mary Liveratti has served as the Deputy Director of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) since January 2003.  She is responsible for oversight of the Office of Aging & Disability Services, the Senior Rx and Disability Rx programs, Office of Suicide Prevention, Grants Management Unit, and the Head Start State Collaborative Office. She is also the Chair of the DHHS Institutional Review Board for Research Involving Human Subjects.

Mary is currently a member of the Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities and the Governor’s Partnership on 2-1-1, the health and human services informational telephone service. She has served on the U.S. State Pharmaceutical Assistance Transition Commission, Nevada Commission on Aging, Board of Examiners for Long Term Care Administrators, Public Health Trust Fund Board, Governor’s Task Force on Personal Assistance Services for Persons with Disabilities, and was the Coordinator for the Governor’s Strategic Plan for Senior Services Task Force. She serves in an advisory capacity to the Senior Services and Aging & Disability Services Strategic Plans Accountability Committees and the Interagency Council on Homelessness.

Prior to becoming DHHS Deputy Director, Mary worked in the Nevada Division for Aging Services for 23 years, serving at various times as Administrator, Deputy Administrator, and Coordinator of Senior Services.  During that period, she was responsible for implementing the Community Home-based Initiative Program (CHIP.

Mary has been the recipient of the Sanford Center on Aging “You Make a World of Difference” Award (2002), the Sanford Silver Star Award (2004), the Governor’s Outstanding Senior Advocate Award (1997), the Nevada Senior Games Founders’ Award (1997), Nevada Disability Advocacy and Law Center’s Lois Johnson Administrative Advocacy Award (2007), and the Human Services Network’s Administrator of the Year (2007).

A licensed social worker, Mary came to Nevada as a VISTA volunteer with the Clark County Economic Opportunity Board Senior Center. She received her degree in Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
 

 

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