Community Action of Central Illinois is losing its Executive Director.

Alison Rumler-Gomez announced Friday she will be stepping down from her post. She told Regional Radio News on the WHOW Morning Show Friday she has a family that is beginning to enter new phases of life and wants to be able to be there for all the things they have going on.

Under the guidance of Rumler-Gomez, Community Action shifted its overall mission. She explains they became an agency focused on a 'hand-up' model rather than a 'handout' model and felt the agency really lacked a direction when she arrived.

One of the successes of the shift in mission and culture was the fact only a small amount of staff moved on. Rumler-Gomez says that is very unusual but felt the staff was hungry for a direction.

Rumler-Gomez credits her Director of Agency Development, Breann Titus for the buy-in on the changes from so many of the agency stakeholders. From Board members to the community to clients, she says Titus understood the messaging that had to be scrutinized to make the new direction work.

Rumler-Gomez feels most proud that she is leaving behind an agency of people that are capable of carrying on the mission she has set forward for them. She felt that allowed her the peace of mind to resign and pursue the next endeavor for her life.