Officers

PRESIDENT
2025 – 2027

Matt Obert
President & CEO
Chaddock
Quincy, Illinois

 

VICE PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT-ELECT
2025 – 2027

Beth Bixby
Chief Executive Officer
Tides Family Services
West Warwick, Rhode island

TREASURER
2025 – 2027

Lesley Don Cole
Chief Financial Officer
Methodist Family Health
Little Rock, Arkansas

 

SECRETARY
2024 – 2026 

Tricia Delano
Chief Executive Officer
Jackson-Feild Behavioral Health Services
Jarratt, Virginia

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
2025 – 2027

Michele Madley
Chief Executive Officer
Gibault Children’s Services
Terre Haute, Indiana

   

Directors

   

John Damon: 2024 - 2026
Chief Executive Officer
Canopy Children's Solutions
Jackson, Mississippi

 

Charlene Hoobler: 2025 - 2026
Chief Operations Officer
The Barry Robinson Center
Norfolk, Virginia

Michelle Murray: 2024 - 2026
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nexus Family Healing
Plymouth, Minnesota

 

Jim Serratt: 2025 - 2027
Chief Executive Officer
Parkside Psychiatric Hospital
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Mary Stone-Smith: 2025 - 2027
Vice President, Family Behavioral Health System
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington
Tacoma, Washington

 

Ty Tigner: 2024 - 2026
Executive Director
Presbyterian Hospitality House
Fairbanks, Alaska

Directors-At-Large

2025 – 2026

   

Anne Dennis-Choi
President and Chief Executive Officer
AK Child and Family
Anchorage, Alaska

 

Steve Girelli
President and Chief Executive Officer
Klingberg Family Centers
New Britain, Connecticut

Peggy Kelly
President and Chief Executive Officer
Youth Home
Little Rock, Arkansas

 

Shirley Ryan
President and Chief Executive Officer
Crossroad Child & Family
Fort Wayne, Indiana


Past Presidents

     
2023 - 2025 Michelle Madley
2021 - 2023 Charlene Hoobler
2019 - 2021  Richard Wolleat
2017 – 2019 David Napier
2015 – 2017 Steve Girelli
2013 – 2015 John Damon
2011 – 2013 Beth Chadwick
2009 – 2011 Jim Maley
2007 – 2009 Charles M. Thompson
2005 – 2007 Rosemarie Burton
2003 – 2005 Robert P. Sheehan
2001 – 2003 Denis D. McCarville
1998 – 2001 Earl P. Kelly
1997 – 1998 Daniel H. Cook
1995 – 1997 James E. Spicer
1993 – 1995 Richard Bigelow
1990 – 1993 Richard Rodman
1988 – 1990 Lenard J. Lexier
1986 – 1988 Richard Hardin
1983 – 1986 Timothy Welch