Patty Rose serves as the Assistant Director of Early Childhood Health and Community Supports for the Building Strong Brains Early Childhood Initiative. In this role, she works closely with Coalition leadership to lead and advance maternal and child health efforts, facilitate action teams, and strengthen community engagement throughout Elkhart County. Patty brings more than a decade of experience from Purdue University’s Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, where she supported communities across Indiana in reducing health disparities and improving outcomes. Earlier in her career, she worked in Health IT at Goshen Physicians and is a Certified Community of Change/Strategic Doing Practitioner, skilled at tackling complex challenges through collaboration.
Holly Landis is the Operations Coordinator for the Building Strong Brains Coalition, partnering with the team to keep daily operations running smoothly and effectively. Holly holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Indiana University and an MBA from Indiana Wesleyan. Her professional experience includes serving as Town Manager for Wakarusa, working in engineering services at Zimmer Biomet, and providing customer service support at Everence Financial. She also contributes her time as a board member for The Center, reflecting her commitment to supporting community well-being.
With Patty’s arrival, Brian Replogle’s role will shift to focus on quality childcare and early learning environments. That’s a big job to tackle a big issue as we change this system together. That action team is busy and we are thrilled that Brian can focus on these issues
Welcome Patty and Holly!