Training & Consulting

Tim Grove serves as the Senior Director of Trauma Informed Strategy and Practice at Wellpoint Care Network. Tim has more than 25 years of experience in the social service field in a variety of programs and roles. Tim has been a Mentor with Dr. Bruce Perry’s Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT), is a master trainer of ACE Interface and is the creator of Wellpoint Care’s Trauma Informed Care (TIC) curriculum, 7 Essential Ingredients (7ei). In addition to leading the TIC efforts across all Wellpoint Care programs, Tim has been providing training and consulting on trauma, ACEs, secondary trauma/caregiver capacity and related topics for 15 years.  Tim has worked with and trained a diverse group of professionals – including judges, police officers, juvenile justice and child welfare staff, hospitals and healthcare staff, child development staff, veteran groups, college/university staff and professors, Boys and Girls Clubs, Religious Groups, Correctional staff, employers/employment staff and many others.

Tim and the Wellpoint Care team’s work has been highlighted in various radio and television projects, including a 2018 60 Minutes segment with special correspondent Oprah Winfrey and a three-year research study on the effectiveness of 7ei in child welfare published by the Journal of Child Custody in 2019.

Alex Williams is a community leader, organizer and educator with a background in curriculum writing and youth development. As an experienced program coordinator, he has led learning at all levels from structured after-school activities for kindergarteners to skill-targeted literacy interventions for middle school students, all the way up to adult learning training sessions including “Literacy As A Social Justice Issue” and “The War on Black Males.” Alex is a lifelong humanitarian and has been serving and volunteering in the community for over 20 years at organizations, including City Year Milwaukee, Milwaukee College Preparatory School and Safe & Sound. As the Director of Community Engagement for Wellpoint Care Network, he works to bring the continuum of care and many other services Wellpoint Care provides into the communities and neighborhoods that need them the most.

I began my career at Wellpoint Care in 2009. The diversity of the work that I do ensures that no day is like any other. I get to lead a team who is focused on supporting the work of our mission – even if it’s not in their job description. Wellpoint Care has created an environment that allows me to thrive professionally while supporting my work-life balance in the various seasons of both my professional and personal life. We are allowed opportunity to be innovative and creative together in how we achieve goals while never losing sight of our mission. It’s encouraging to see the result of the organization listening to feedback by providing space for us to come together as an agency and have conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion, and then be a part of the work towards change.

I am a first-generation Puerto Rican, born in the United States and first in my family to have graduated college and continued to receive master’s degree. I’m bilingual and fully fluent in Spanish. I oversee the Mentoring Program and am a part many other diversity-related committees.