Advocacy: Self- Advocacy, Healthcare Professional Advocacy & Collaboration

Ronita Boullt is a Disability Awareness Advocate, Educator, and Consultant with a wide range of professional experience and expertise. A Published Author, Inspirational Speaker, Certified Peer Mentor, and Patient Advocate are just a few of Ms. Boullt’s many professional roles.

As a consultant, she leads workshops, presentations, and roundtable discussions on mental health, surviving trauma, and navigating systems of care. Her work is based on her lived experience and more than 10 years of specialized training serving vulnerable individuals with Intellectual Development Disabilities (I/DD) as a case manager.

Ms. Boullt has assisted the elderly, disabled persons, including disabled veterans, and those with complex health conditions, for a combined 30-plus years of direct service. In addition to her Bachelor of Science degree in Rehabilitation Services and Counseling, Ms. Boullt holds several additional training licenses. Using her lived experience and expertise, she has created an online healthcare training curriculum for healthcare professionals, caregivers, providers, and individuals: "Navigating Systems Care." This curriculum centers on the needs of individuals with complex disabilities and healthcare needs, utilizing a framework of holistic, quality of life, person-centered care.

Ms. Ronita Boullt is the Founder of Caring with Compassion Community, a "Peer Run" non-profit serving marginalized community members who experience trauma supporting their wellness journey. Ms. Boullt has devoted her career to helping empower individuals most vulnerable, helping break the cycle of discrimination through providing person center, trauma-informed approaches, culturally appropriate care services, and petitioning for laws to be changed in Washington.

As an inspirational advocate and recruiter for the vulnerable population, Ms. Boullt is part of several board committees within the community to help implement change and equality; Ms. Boullt is connecting with other state agencies and non-profit community providers to implement change. Through economic empowerment supporting entrepreneurs who “Black Indigenous People of Color” (BIPOC), and people with disabilities accessing resources, technical assistance for businesses.

In providing consultation and expertise to individuals with disabilities, their families, caregivers, health care teams, the business community, and the public, Ms. Boullt focuses on awareness of appropriate resources and services while supporting inclusion, diversity, employment, cost-effective resources, quality of life, safety, and maximizing independence.

In her personal wellness journey, she has dealt with chronic health issues, survived natural disasters (including Hurricane Katrina), and cared for her mother for 14 years until her transition. Ms. Boullt has learned how to navigate care systems and use her voice to ensure quality services. Advocating and working collaboratively with various healthcare disciplines, she assured that both she and her mother received quality care and maximized appropriate services to accomplish their health goals.

Through this unique combination of lived personal experience and professional training and expertise, Ms. Boullt has become a passionate and respected advocate for serving the most vulnerable with compassion, as well as empowering individuals, recognizing abilities, and taking holistic, person-centered care to become knowledgeable about disabilities.

Ms. Boullt currently resides in Washington state, enjoys traveling, cooking, family, friends, spending quality time creating memories, sharing moments, and taking long relaxing soaking baths indulging in self-care. For more information