Executive Director
Community Connections
As Executive Director of Community Connections, a community based 501(c)(3) non-profit, Greg Puckett advocates for strong public policy, and leads others to combat the opioid epidemic and community revitalization/stabilization efforts. He currently serves on several state committees, and serves as Secretary on the Board of the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), where he is a past recipient of CADCA’s National Advocate of the Year award.
As County Commissioner, Greg has encouraged reinvestment with its local community mental health system, and diversifying funding to combat the problems associated with overdoses, Hepatitis B/C and HIV problems. Since being elected in 2014, the Commission have reinvested funding to its local community mental health system and placed a heavy emphasis on the county’s litter problem for its community based, award winning “Keep Mercer Clean” initiative.
He serves on the board of the National Association of Counties (NACO) Board of Directors and is Chair of the National Rural Action Caucus. He has served as one of only ten county officials on the National Opioid Taskforce, and on their policy team as Vice Chair of the Healthy Counties initiative, Juvenile Justice and Arts and Culture Subcommittee, the Arts and Culture Subcommittee, and is Chair of the Mental Health Subcommittee.
In 2020, he was awarded the Louis Gorin Award for Outstanding Leadership in Health Education from the National Rural Health Association, and in 2021, he was awarded the National Outstanding Leadership Award by the Alliance for the Arts.
For the past eight years, he has traveled throughout the US to train on community sustainability and has worked with funders from the Benedum Foundation, the Appalachian Regional Commission, and others to revitalize his hometown.
He has two kids, Lauren and Joseph, that keep him dedicated to making positive changes, and leaving a legacy for the next generation.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2022
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM ET