5005
Ross Road
Baltimore, MD 21214-2914
Home Phone: (410) 426-5817
mail@mikes.ws
BIO
Michael Bornemann has more
than 50 years of experience as an administrator, direct care worker,
and volunteer in the field of human services.
As Executive Director of East
Baltimore Resources, The League for the Handicapped, HARBEL Community
Organization, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (Maryland
Chapter), Mike has had extensive experience with issues affecting
individuals with disabilities. While specializing in Vocational and
Medical Day Programs and Residential services to persons with mental
retardation and other developmental disabilities, Mike also has helped
provide rehabilitation and vocational services to substance abuse
populations as well as persons with emotional and mental illness. (Link
to Professional
Experience).
As a volunteer, Mike has
served on the Boards of Directors of the Epilepsy Association of
Maryland and of Opportunities for the Blind. He has been President of,
and continues to serve as a director on the Boards of, the Harford
Belair Community Mental Health Center and The Waltherson Improvement
Association. (Link to Volunteer
Activity).
Mike's volunteer work has been extensive in the Catholic Archdiocese of
Baltimore and its local parishes. From chairing Parish
Councils
and Liturgical Committees to leading music ministries, he has
experienced leadership in almost every position that parish life can
offer its lay leaders. At present, Mike is the representative
for
East Baltimore City on the ten members Council Board that oversees the
programs and services provided by St. Vincent de Paul of Maryland, Inc.
He also raises funds and takes on assignments
from the
Archdiocese of Baltimore and by St. Dominic Church (his home parish) as
requested.
Mike
has had several articles
and items of poetry on public health and disability issues published in
the Baltimore Sun, the Evening Sun, American Rehabilitation Magazine,
and other periodicals over his professional career. (Link to Publications)
Mike and his wife Angela of 37
years, who is editor of the Owings Mills Times, have lived in the
Waltherson community of north east Baltimore
City for 35 years. They have two boys both of whom are recent
university graduates.
An avid promoter of personal
potential, Mike is often recognized in Baltimore as the winner of
the 1977 Mayor's Hog Calling Contest.