Employee

A Shepherd of Recovery

At a certain point in his life, if someone gave Daniel Regan a prediction that he would one day run a residential recovery home, he
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Forming a Therapeutic Alliance

Katelyn Picard, LCSW (left), an outpatient and school-based clinician for CHD’s Pine Street Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic in Springfield, is with fellow clinician and Nicole
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Proof of the Impact of Social Work

Laurie Brown, program supervisor for CHD Adult Mental Health-Springfield’s Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic on State Street, chose the field of social work because she had
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Every Voice Counts

What prompted Debra Call, clinical supervisor at CHD’s Park Street Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic in West Springfield, to pursue a career in social work? She
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“It’s an amazing career”

“I can’t see myself doing anything else,” said Jasmine Jones about the field of social work. Jones, a clinician at our Pine Street Outpatient Behavioral
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A Nontraditional Support Network

Shaun Sloat is a caseworker at The Retreat at Hampshire Woods, CHD’s respite program in South Hadley, which provides a nontraditional, innovative, and individualized support
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From West Africa to Western Massachusetts

Mariame Kounta forged a non-traditional and impactful path to CHD, where she is a vital part of our agency’s new Primary Care program—a cutting-edge initiative
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Challenging Old Ways of Thinking

Jennifer Ewig, a family caseworker at CHD’s Two Rivers Recovery Center for Women in Greenfield, has been a CHD employee for more than 20 years
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Treating Stimulant Use Disorder

D’Arcy Gebert, a psychiatric nurse practitioner and lead prescriber at CHD’s Stimulant Treatment and Recovery Team (START) at our Pine Street Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic
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Developing New, Helpful Thought Patterns

Patricia Connors, program director for CHD’s Two Rivers Recovery Center for Women in Greenfield, has a favorite saying: “If you give what you gave, you’ll
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