Josh Westphal
Member at Large - Conference Assistant
Josh is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), working as a Positive Support Consultant with the Minnesota Department of Human Services’ (DHS) Community Support Services (CSS) for the past six years. Josh consults with private group home agencies, schools, hospital, families, and other teams that support individuals, age 12 and up, with intellectual and developmental disabilities whose interfering behavior is challenging to the organic support network. Josh brings perspective and experience from over a decade in Minnesota’s various human services programs, having worked as a direct care staff in adult corporate foster care (245D), managing in home programs for children (CTSS), working in children’s residential treatment (Rule 2960), and just for the sake of variety, did a “brief” six years in the Army National Guard as a Combat Medic with a deployment in support of Operation New Dawn. Josh enjoys talking recruitment and retention, staff training, soap boxing on the virtues of graphing in Excel over Word, all while making the occasional bad (or great, depending on one’s perspective) dad joke.
At a Glance: Member at Large - Conference Assistant
Position held since:
Our member at large - conference assistant has served in this position since 2024.
Years served on board:
Our current president has served on the MNABA board in various capacities since 2024.
The member at large - conference assistant's role at MNABA:
The member at large - conference assistant currently serves 2-year terms. The member at large - conference assistant reports to the conference director and completes assigned tasks required to bring you our annual conference. To fulfill the requirements of this board position, this board member attends all conference committee meetings and full board meetings. The member at large - conference assistant is also responsible for assisting with CEUs, assisting with membership tracking, coordinating with relevant parties to assist in planning the conference, and assisting with conference activities during the conference. The member at large - conference assistant is elected on even years (e.g., 2024, 2026, 2028, etc.).