Buncombe County Department of Social Services
Website: http://www.buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/dss/
40 Coxe Ave.
PO Box 7408 Asheville, NC 28802
State Courier#: 12-50-02
(828) 250-5500 / Fax: (828) 250-5945
County Population: 222,174
Emergency Phone: (828) 250-5500

Key staff contacts | County DSS Board | Board of Commissioners
NC Legislative Delegation: House | NC Legislative Delegation: Senate

Key staff contacts
Director:
Amanda Stone / (828) 250-5588 / mandy.stone@buncombecounty.org

Administrative Assistant:
Christa Lance / (828) 250-5587 / christa.lance@buncombecounty.org

Operations Manager:
Jackie Franklin / (828) 250-5575 / jackie.franklin@buncombecounty.org

Fiscal/Performance Manager:
Jim Holland / (828) 250-5531 / jim.holland@buncombecounty.org

Human Resources Manager:
Lisa Eby / (828) 250-5610 / lisa.eby@buncombecounty.org

Social Work Services Program Administrator:
Becky Kessel / (828) 250-5775 / becky.kessel@buncombecounty.org

Social Work Services Program Administrator:
Angela Pittman / (828) 250-5749 / angela.pittman@buncombecounty.org

Economic Services Program Administrator:
Tim Rhodes / (828) 250-5592 / tim.rhodes@buncombecounty.org

Child Support Enforcement:
Policy Studies, Inc. :
Crystal Miller / (828) 232-1416 / Fax: (828) 232-0397
30 Garfield St., Suite A, Asheville, NC 28803-2485

Business Officer:
Jim Holland / (828) 250-5531 / jim.holland@buncombecounty.org

Investigative & Family Assessment:
Child/Family Services Program Manager:
Vacant / (828) 250-5608

Foster Care/Placement Licensing:
Child/Family Services Program Manager:
Bryan Clasen / (828) 250-5519 / bryan.clasen@buncombecounty.org

In-Home Services:
Child/Family Services Program Manager:
Tammy Shook / (828) 250-5557 / tammy.shook@buncombecounty.org

Adult Services Program Manager / CPS & Adult Services Intake, On-Call:
Cathie Beatty / (828) 250-5637 / cathie.beatty@buncombecounty.org

Adult Medicaid Department Head:
Micky Corn / (828) 250-5755 / micky.corn@buncombecounty.org

Family and Children's Medicaid:
Patricia Wallin / (828) 250-5689 / patricia.wallin@buncombecounty.org

Family Self Sufficiency - Childcare Subsidy, Prevention, Work First Employment Case:
Dawn Warren, Program Manager / (828) 250-5980 / dawn.warren@buncombecounty.org

Food and Nutrition Services Department Head:
Marty Phillips / (828) 250-5739 / marty.phillips@buncombecounty.org

County DSS Board:
Bill McElrath, Chair
Ben Watts, Vice Chair
Suzanne Swanger
David McClain
Latessa Johnson

Board of Commissioners:
Nathan Ramsey, Chair
David Gantt, Vice Chair
Carol Peterson
Bill Stanley
David Young