Board of Directors
Officers
Chair: Anthony Comerford, PhD, President and CEO, New Hope Integrated Behavioral Health Care
Vice Chair: Frank Ghinassi, PhD, ABPP, President and CEO, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care and Senior Vice President, Behavioral Health and Addiction Service Line, RWJBarnabas Health
Treasurer: Alan DeStefano, MSW, Executive Director, Cape Atlantic Integrated Network for Kids
Secretary: Derry Holland, LCSW, Chief Executive Officer, Oaks Integrated Care
Immediate Past Chair
Jacques Hryshko, LPC, ACS, Chief Executive Officer, Family Connections
Robert Budsock, MS, LCADC, President and CEO, Integrity House
Kathryn Colhoun, LCSW, Director of Community Resources and Advocacy, Ocean Partnership for Children, Inc.
Anthony DiFabio, PsyD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Acenda Integrated Health
Howard Haughton, CEO, Eva’s Village
Erika Kerber, Esq., Associate Executive Director, Community Health Law Project
Lisa Merritt, DNP, RN, PMHNP-BC, NE-BC, Chief Nurse Executive, Catholic Charities, Diocese of Trenton
Lou Schwarcz, MA, Chief Executive Officer, Family and Children's Services of Monmouth County
Shavonda Sumter, MBA, President & CEO, Children's Aid and Family Services
Kathy White-Thomas, MS, Chief Operating Officer, Volunteers of America - Delaware Valley
Regina Widdows, MA, President/CEO, SERV Behavioral Health System, Inc.
Barrett Young, MS, Chief Executive Officer, Rescue Mission of Trenton
To request any meeting minutes, please contact Shauna Fuzes at sfuzes@njamhaa.org.
Executive Committee: The Executive Committee of the Board of Directors is composed of the Board Chair, Immediate Past Board Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Chairpersons of the standing committees of the Association – Finance and Compliance, and Governance – and the President and Vice President of the New Jersey Mental Health Institute (NJMHI) Board of Trustees. This committee appoints standing committees and all committees as deemed necessary; may act on behalf of the entire Board of Directors as a committee of the whole; and has the powers of the Board of Directors to transact business between Board meetings.
NJAMHAA staff contact: Shauna Fuzes, 609-838-5488, ext. 204; sfuzes@njamhaa.org
Chair: Anthony Comerford, PhD, President and CEO, New Hope Integrated Behavioral Health Care
Vice Chair: Frank Ghinassi, PhD, ABPP, President and CEO, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care and Senior Vice President, Behavioral Health and Addiction Service Line, RWJBarnabas Health
To request any meeting minutes, please contact Shauna Fuzes at sfuzes@njamhaa.org.
Finance and Compliance Committee: The Finance and Compliance Committee focuses on the NJAMHAA budget, audit and risk management. It provides for the maintenance of Association offices and for making such offices the center of activities of the Association, including such work of the Officers and committees as may be deemed expedient; and it provides for the proper care of materials, equipment, and funds of the Association, for the payment of legitimate expenses and for the annual auditing of all books of accounts by a non-Member certified public accountant.
NJAMHAA staff contact: Julia Schneider, 609-838-5488, ext. 201; jschneider@njamhaa.org
Co-Chairs: Derry Holland, LCSW, Chief Executive Officer, Oaks Integrated Care; Barrett Young, MS, Chief Executive Officer, Rescue Mission of Trenton
To request any meeting minutes, please contact Julia Schneider at jschneider@njamhaa.org.
Governance Committee: The Governance Committee focuses on recruitment of new members overall and Board members/elections, Bylaws, committee structure, quality, policy review, Board members’ orientation and actionable items relating to individual Board members. It works with Membership, Business Development, Practice Groups, Bylaws, Information Technology Project and other Contracts, Nominations, Personnel Policy and Operational issues. The committee also establishes major administrative policies governing the affairs of the Association and devises means for the Association's growth and development, as well as acts upon applications for Membership in the Association.
NJAMHAA staff contact: Shauna Fuzes, 609-838-5488, ext. 204; sfuzes@njamhaa.org
Co-Chairs: Anthony Comerford, PhD, President & Chief Executive Officer, New Hope Integrated Behavioral Health Care; Erika Kerber, Esq., President and Executive Director, Community Health Law Project
To request any meeting minutes, please contact Shauna Fuzes at sfuzes@njamhaa.org.
