Annmarie Eggert is a case specialist at Disability Determination Service, Central Service Area in Lansing. She has worked for DDS for 15 years.

The Bridges Test Team is a mix of 113 professionals from the field and central office. Some team members temporarily left their local jobs to work full-time on the Bridges Test Team, some members work part-time on a rotating schedule, other members test in addition to their regular day jobs, and some team members provide assistance or input when their expertise is needed or requested.

Cindy Gill Pushman is the Otsego and Crawford DHS director and is currently working out of class as the acting Region 2 manager.

Karen Foster is a community resource coordinator for Lapeer and Sanilac counties. She has 32 years with DHS.

The Making it Work Program Team is a collaboration of 18 people between DHS Kalamazoo County, Housing Resources Inc. and Goodwill Industries of Southwestern Michigan. The team developed its program to assist the people they served who were trying to leave welfare but were continually failing due to instability in either housing and employment or both.

In May 2007, the two member Personal Care/Household Item Resource team established a non-food item resource room for DHS clients at the Oakland County Saginaw Street district office.

William Melcher is the Family to Family coordinator for the Region 3 Northwest counties (Mecosta, Osceola , Lake, Newaygo, Mason and Oceana). He has 21 years of experience with DHS.