STEUBENVILLE — Aim Women’s Center has named Steubenville native Kelcea Danielson case manager for the Mother of Mercy Home, a maternity home run by Aim.

In this role, Danielson will oversee and coordinate care and services to the women Aim serves.

For Aim, case management includes assessment, planning, coordination, monitoring, advocacy and documentation of each woman’s set of circumstances (known as a case file.) Practically speaking, Danielson helps each woman identify her life skills and her deficits and helps determine how to close the gaps between those. This could include education enrollment, locating housing, parenting classes, mental health treatment, transportation or any other barrier to independence that a woman may be experiencing.

Rebekah Cohen Morris, MOM Home and Aim executive director, said case management is fundamental for the clients her agency sees.

“The women who seek our services experience multiple challenges that deter their ability to parent,” she said. “Kelcea has a unique knowledge of the local services available to our residents. When you include that with her training and innate ability to weigh needs and locate resources to fit those needs, you know that Kelcea is the right fit for our program and the women we serve.”

Danielson said she wants to ensure that women know they can do anything they aspire to do; they just need to overcome their challenges. “We all have obstacles to success,” she said. “I want women to have the confidence to overcome those. The more they obtain their goals — like housing or transportation — one step at a time, the more confidence they gain. It’s fulfilling to watch them grow.”

Danielson served as workforce professional coordinator at Jefferson Community Action Council, where she worked with clients of all age levels, including children and veterans. There, she assisted clients in locating employment; creating resumes; enrolling in education and training; and building job skills and other necessary activities to securing gainful employment. She worked as an intake specialist at the Home Energy Assistance Program.

She and her husband, Ronnie, live in Steubenville; they have five children.