Kathy Starkovich has been a member of the Adult Redeploy Illinois Oversight Board since 2017 and serves on the Site Selection and Monitoring and Performance Measurement Committees. She is a Deputy Director at the DuPage County Department of Probation and Court Services and the coordinator of DuPage County’s Adult Redeploy program, where she has led the team since 2013.

Kathy has worked within her department for twenty-three years and is passionate about taking a strength-based approach with clients. She believes in the intrinsic value each person possesses, and that nobody loses the ability to make change. She is an advocate for integrating evidence-based strategies in programming in a simple, pragmatic manner and that work of probation is challenging, but is always worthwhile.

Kathy provides extensive training on a variety of curricula focused primarily on effective behavior management strategies and cognitive-behavioral interventions and has served as an adjunct faculty member at a local college.