About Us
OUR MISSION
The mission of the WCVGA is to locate and assist volunteer guardians to provide for the needs of the mentally incompetent in Wayne County, Ohio.
WHO WE ARE
Wayne County Volunteer Guardianship Association (WCVGA) is a not-for-profit program that provides Guardian of Person services to individuals who are residents of Wayne County living in, or in need of, residential care, and who are deemed incompetent by the Wayne County Probate Court. WCVGA is governed by a Board of Directors which carries out its mission to provide guardianship services to the most vulnerable adults in Wayne County who do not have family or supportive others qualified to be guardians.
Guardianship is an essential component in our community ensuring that the elderly and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health issues, who are no longer capable of managing themselves and their life decisions, have a caring, ethical and responsible advocate. We have been actively linking vulnerable adults with Volunteer Guardians since 2012.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Douglas R. Princehorn
MSW, LISW-S - Summit Therapy Center
Becky Migdal
SSA, Wayne County Board of DD
Kelli Beckler
LSW, LNHA
Elizabeth Krieder Wright
Attorney at Law – Broehl Law Office
Krista A. Asher
MSW, LISW-S - Wooster Community Hospital
Kimberly A. Lang
Attorney at Law - Taggart Law Firm, LPA
Elizabeth Krieder Wright
Elizabeth Krieder Wright is an attorney with Broehl Law Office in Wooster with over 20 years of experience. She began her legal career with Critchfield, Critchfield and Johnston, Ltd. where she focused on employer representation and workers’ compensation claims and carried that concentration through additional attorney roles at Kokosing Construction and Krieder Wright Law Office. Her current work centers on advising individuals, farming organizations, small business, and non profits regarding general legal matters including insurance claims, estate planning, business formation, human resource management, and regulatory compliance.
Elizabeth’s community involvement includes serving as co-chair of the 2016 Garden Tour, Treasurer for Friends & Neighbors of Every Woman’s House, and board member for the Wayne Center for the Arts and Wayne County Humane Society.
Elizabeth received her bachelor’s degree in English and German from Denison University and her juris Doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.
Krista A. Asher
I have worked in healthcare as a social worker for over 20 years, working in psychiatric/emergency/medical/
Kimberly A. Lang
Kimberly A. Lang is a partner at Taggart Law Firm, L.P.A. in Wooster. Much of her legal practice is dedicated to the area of guardianship law, and she has been involved as a guardian and as counsel for guardians and wards in the course of her twenty-three years of practice. She served on the board of the
Volunteer Guardianship Association of Holmes County for many years and continues to process the Association’s guardianship applications on a pro bono basis. Kim and her husband have four children, and she is involved in numerous activities with them, including the family farm, sports, band, and 4H.
Douglas R. Princehorn
Kelli Beckler
Kelli Beckler currently serves as the Executive Director at Danbury in Massillon. She has worked in Long Term Care for over 30 years, most often as a social worker. Kelli became a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator in 2019.
Kelli lives in Wooster with her husband, and has two adult children and their partners, and one grandchild.
Kelli is passionate about the WCVGA because throughout her years of work in the long term care field she has seen first hand the need for volunteer guardians and the important role they play. She first became involved with the WCVGA as a volunteer guardian in 2012 and also developed and coordinated the Iron Chef Fundraiser which began that year, benefitting the WCVGA. She later became a board member, and in 2024, became President of the board.