Christie Loftis

Christie Loftis serves as a Client Advocate and Trainer for the Texas Department of Health and Human Services, where she has worked for the past 10 years, including 3 years in her current position. Based in Henderson, Texas, she focuses on teaching, training, mentoring, and facilitating classes for adult participants in the work system, addressing policy questions, providing examples, and conducting assessments to track learning progress in areas such as food assistance, Medicaid, and TANF. Her career path began in the medical field and included roles as an office manager and a school paraeducator before evolving into advocacy work, inspired by a desire to help others that originally led her to consider nursing. Loftis holds an associate's degree in applied science and is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in business administration. She has earned Employee of the Month and Employee of the Year honors along with merit awards and accolades for her mentoring efforts. Outside of work, she participates in community outreach for children's activities and attributes her success to core values of integrity, honesty, and perseverance learned from her upbringing and life experiences.