Cynthia G. Farrell is the Division Director of Adult Services within Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. She has been with the State of Michigan for 33 years, with 32 of those years in Adult Services. Cynthia has a wealth of Adult Protective Services (APS) knowledge at the local, state, and federal levels. Her duties include ensuring the adult services programs effectively educate the public about the prevention of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of vulnerable adults as well as the implementation of preventive activities to improve the quality of life of Michigan’s most vulnerable adult residents. Since 2003, she has been the state member of the National Adult Protective Services Association (NAPSA). She has been a member of the Attorney General’s Elder Abuse Task Force since its inception in 2019. In 1990, Ms. Farrell earned her a bachelor’s degree in human development with a concentration in gerontology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
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