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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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