Spotlight on Staff

The Providence Center was selected to serve as a planning partner for the 2010 National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month presented by the SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Jim Gillen, clinical coordinator of recovery services at The Providence Center, will represent the organization at five planning meetings to be held in Washington, D.C., culminating in the national kick-off of Recovery Month on September 9, 2010.

Dr. James Greer has been Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University for 23 years. In 1999, he received the Nancy Roeske Award for Excellence in Teaching from the American Psychiatric Association for his work at Brown and in 2001, the Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the National Association for the Mentally Ill for his advocacy efforts on behalf of the mentally ill.

President/CEO Dale K. Klatzker, Ph.D., was selected to the 2010 Rhode Island Foundation Fellows Program. A program of the Institute for Nonprofit Excellence, the Fellows Program provides research and development support for executive directors to explore new initiatives for their organizations.

Director of Intermediate and Residential Services Sharon Morello offered a two-day workshop entitled Identifying and Evaluating Research and Best Practices in Opioid Treatment in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in September and Indianapolis, Indiana, in October. Morello is also teaching a course entitled Medication Assisted Recovery and Buprenorphine Awareness at the 16th Annual New England School of Best Practices in Addiction in August. Sharon consulted on the Best Practice Guidelines for Nursing Professionals in Narcotic Treatment and received the Provider of the Year Award from Rhode Island Communities for Addiction Recovery Efforts.

Jon Dupré, a Providence Center client and recipient of the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare’s 2007 Excellence in Consumer and Family Advocacy Award, was featured in the March 2008 issue of Behavioral Healthcare in an article written by Communications Manager Threasa Packhem.

Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mickey Silver was featured on WRNI, Rhode Island’s National Public Radio station on July 1, 2008. Dr. Silver spoke about The Providence Center’s relationship with the Providence Police Department and the ways that The Providence Center is educating the police about people that have mental illnesses.