Combining clinical practice with executive leadership oversight, this Licensed Clinical Social Worker brings more than 40 years of experience in behavioral health organizations, child welfare services, and developmental disabilities programs. This Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) serves as a mental health and social services expert witness with more than 40 years of experience in behavioral health systems, child welfare services, developmental disabilities programs, and community-based mental health organizations. His career includes executive leadership roles as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of a nonprofit consulting firm, Interim Chief Executive Officer of multiple behavioral health agencies, and President and Chief Executive Officer of a statewide child and family services organization, where he held overall responsibility for fiscal management, program development, community-based mental health services, residential treatment programs, and accountability to governing Boards of Directors. He provides expert witness and consultation services in civil matters involving mental health services, child welfare systems, foster care, residential and group home programs, and related organizational practices, including identification of relevant professional and program standards in those settings.

He holds a Master of Social Work degree and has maintained licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 1988. His expertise encompasses child and family mental health services, wraparound and community-based treatment models, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, day treatment programs, and comprehensive services for Transitional Age Youth, including housing and vocational programming. He has also overseen programs serving adults and seniors with mental health and developmental disabilities and has directed special education and residential services for emotionally troubled adolescents and young adults.

In addition to executive oversight, he provides clinical and program supervision to Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists, conducts organizational reviews, and advises nonprofit behavioral health agencies on strategic planning, expansion planning, budgetary and fiscal management, Board development, and fund development.