The Power Players
This individual provides strategic and operational leadership for the federally funded National Center, stewarding the grant, setting vision and priorities, overseeing technical assistance and dissemination, managing budgets, workplans, contractors, and subawards, coordinating closely with the federal project officer, and ensuring strong internal operations and external partnerships to advance adoption-competent mental health services nationwide.
Who is NC Director (Mary Wichansky)
This role strengthens the NC from within by building efficient operational systems, refining workflows, developing tools and SOPs, supporting communication and content, and enabling data-driven, cross-team coordination and decision-making.
Who is the information and Operations Manager?
This role brings deep mental-health system expertise to each TA site—analyzing structures, priorities, and service pathways; designing MH strategies; strengthening cross-system collaboration; and advancing adoption-competent practice through training alignment, relationship-building, and targeted implementation support.
This role creates clear, engaging written materials—from blogs to white papers—to translate complex topics into accessible knowledge, supporting the NC’s dissemination efforts through research-based, high-quality content.
Who is the Content Specialist? (Asia Huggins)
This role leads evaluation by creating and executing the evaluation plan, developing the logic model, administering instruments, analyzing findings, supporting STT and NC teams, and guiding CASEBase development and quality improvement.
Who is the Evaluation Team? (UNL and ChildTrends)
This role leads national knowledge creation and dissemination—mobilizing best practices, curating resources, and driving system advancement through awareness, learning activities, and the Knowledge Hub.
Director of Knowledge and Dissemination (Erin Bader)
They play a vital role in advancing the National Center for Adoption Competent Mental Health Services’ digital presence by designing and managing visual content across web, social media, and print platforms. This role collaborates with the Marketing Manager and Director of Knowledge and Dissemination on graphic strategy implementation, website content management, and digital campaign execution to support brand awareness and engagement. This role ensures brand alignment across all National Center created products.
Who is the Graphic Designer (Sam Paciello)
This role brings deep NTI expertise to each site—supporting understanding, adoption, and implementation of the training; providing updates and presentations; connecting past and current NTI efforts; and contributing to briefing materials, reports, and CASEBase documentation.
Who is the NTI Implementation Specialist?
This role infuses lived experience into every stage of TA—bringing youth and caregiver perspectives, guiding engagement strategies, informing priorities and system needs, shaping goals and workplans, and strengthening adoption-competent systems through meaningful community partnership.
Who is CET Team Member? (Betty Rivers)
This role brings tribal expertise to TA engagements—building relationships with tribal leaders, guiding culturally informed strategies, shaping goals and workplans, and providing end-to-end leadership to support adoption-competent system development in tribal contexts.
Who is the Tribal SME Consultant? (Becky Main)
This role leads and oversees all Intensive Technical Assistance across 5–6 STTs each year—driving high-quality implementation, coordinating TA teams and partners, supervising implementation specialists and coaches, ensuring alignment with the TA model and timelines, optimizing processes and tools, co-leading peer learning Roundtables, and partnering on continuous quality improvement and dashboard development.
Who is the Director of Technical Assistance (Tanya Anderson)
This role drives national visibility by leading strategic marketing, branding, and outreach—developing campaigns, managing digital engagement, and expanding awareness of the NC and adoption-competent mental health services.
Senior Marketing Manager (TBD)
This role develops and delivers NTI mental-health coaching—building and scaling the coaching program, supporting practice improvement and fidelity, engaging participants, and driving annual coaching results in alignment with NTI and TA goals.
Who is the NTI Mental Health Coach? (Carla Felten)
This role provides high-level, adoption-competent mental health expertise—supporting strategic conversations, shaping system vision, and communicating the value and impact of adoption competency to leadership within each STT.
Who is the Mental Health Consultant SME?
This role provides essential scan data and research insights—periodically updating reports that inform STT work, contributing adoption-competency knowledge to the Hub, and offering subject-matter expertise across CASE activities.
Who is PolicyWorks? (Anne Atkinson)
This role provides federal oversight by ensuring grant compliance, approving workplans and budgets, guiding grantees on evolving federal priorities, fostering collaboration across CB-funded projects, and maintaining regular communication to support effective implementation.
Who is the Federal Project Officer? (Dr. Randi Walters)
This role ensures smooth daily operations by managing calendars, meetings, communications, logistics, records, and on-site support—serving as the central coordinator who keeps leadership, staff, partners, and STTs aligned and organized.
Who is the National Center Admin? (Jacquin Savoy)
This role brings deep child welfare expertise to each TA site—analyzing system structures and referral pathways, identifying priorities and gaps, shaping goals and strategies, strengthening cross-system collaboration, and guiding adoption-competency development across child welfare systems.
Who is the Child Welfare Implementation Specialist? (Lindsay Holden)
This role leads the planning, execution, and coordination of all NC events and conferences—managing logistics, partners, and on-site operations to deliver high-quality, mission-aligned convenings that advance the Center’s goals.
Who is the Conferences and Events Coordinator? (Jessica Brandon)
This role offers high-level adoption-competent mental health expertise—shaping system vision, communicating value and outcomes, and supporting strategic conversations with STT leaders.
Who is the Mental Health SME Consultant? (Dr. Bonni Goodwin)
This role ensures federal grant compliance, guides the NC’s strategic direction, strengthens lived-experience integration, cultivates national partnerships, and aligns the NC’s work with CASE’s broader mission and organizational strategy.
Who is the CASE CEO? (Debbie Riley)
This role drives Intensive TA results by managing timelines, workflows, documentation, and workplans—ensuring alignment with STT goals, coordinating seamless delivery across all phases, and maintaining high-quality, timely, and well-organized TA processes.
Who is the TA Project Manager? (Akshay Donthi)
This role provides site-specific leadership by guiding the STT team’s work, aligning vision and scope with liaisons, overseeing processes and approvals, coordinating communication, and ensuring strategic, well-organized TA delivery.
Who is the Project Lead?
This position works on outreach and engagement at national levels. This position will also support identification and relationship building for the NC with the goal of creating formal partnerships and national convenings.
Who is the Systems Analyst? (Alisa Santucci)
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