Executive Director
Oregon Council for Behavioral Health
Gladstone, Oregon
Heather Jefferis as the Executive Director of OCBH participates in a wide variety of forums to ensure our members voice is present and actionable. Over the last 25 years of working in Behavioral Health both Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health, I have been privileged to sit in a variety of seats. I have provided direct services as a master’s level clinician, served as a program director, an Executive and Board Chair. I have developed, implemented, and operated programing within government BH clinics, non-profit clinic settings and criminal justice programs. In each of these seats I have typically served individuals who are multisystem involved and frequently with co-occurring concerns. I intimately understand Oregon systems that support Oregonians on their path to whole person and family health. As the Executive Director of the Oregon Council for Behavioral Health, I have been charged by the OCBH Board to grow the association capacity to represent, serve and lift the voice of our diverse statewide integrated continuum of Behavioral Health Care. OCBH has just under 60 member agencies providing the full continuum of BH services from prevention through residential services and detox including urban, rural, frontier, culturally specific, responsive, and linguistically accessible. Heather also currently serves on the National Council for Mental Wellbeing Board of Directors. Heather is a nationally credentialed and state liscenced clincal art therapist, and in her clinical work specialized in serving individuals across the lifespan who exoereince concerns related to truama and substance use disorder.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
