Chief Executive Officer
People USA
Poughkeepsie, New York
Steve Miccio is the CEO of People-USA located in Poughkeepsie, NY. People-USA is a peer operated advocacy and service organization serving people throughout New York State. Steve is a person with lived experience which has helped provide him with valuable insight in becoming one of the nation’s foremost experts in establishing and managing alternative peer operated crisis diversion/respite/stabilization services and has assisted in the creation of various complimentary peer services in NY and across the United States and Europe. Steve is a Subject Matter expert for Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale (BRSS TACS) Policy Academy.
Steve currently chairs a county wide Diversion Committee in Dutchess County, NY and was instrumental working with the Dutchess County government and local provider community and criminal justice council in developing, planning and implementing the opening of the first Crisis Stabilization Center in New York. Steve directs the delivery of Crisis Intervention Team training to all Police departments in Dutchess and Putnam Counties. Steve sits on the Dutchess County Executive Criminal Justice Council and has been involved with the Special Populations Committee in designing Dialectical Behavior Treatments in the County Jail in order to reduce crimonegenic thinking and recidivism while improving overall behavioral health and quality of life outcomes.
Steve is actively involved with the following groups:
• Member of New York State Suicide Prevention Council.
• Chair of the National Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (PRA)
• Board member of CIT International
• Board member of 2-1-1 policy board of Hudson Valley
• Subject matter expert for the Re-entry Policy Academy headed by the GAINS Center and Policy Research Associates
• Advisory Board member of the Northeast Caribbean Mental Health Technology Transfer Center
• Member of the International Crisis Now coalition
• Member of the Crisis Residential Association
Sunday, April 30, 2023
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
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