Director of Substance Use Prevention & Grant Services
Kennebec Behavioral Health
Skowhegan, Maine
Robert has worked with youth and families throughout Somerset and Kennebec Counties since 1994 as a crisis worker, supervisor of alternative response and family reunification, and most recently as the Director of Substance Use Prevention and Grant Services. Robert coordinated a Drug Free Communities grant for 10 years and also operates a Certified Domestic Violence Intervention Program for female survivors of domestic violence who use resistive violence with their intimate partners. Robert was appointed to the states Maine Opiate Collaborative Prevention and Harm Reduction team, served as Chair for the Maine Prevention Specialists Certification Board, and serves as a Maine representative on the New England Prevention Technology Transfer Center's Advisory Board. Additionally, Robert is on the Board of Directors for AdCare of Maine and Sunset Home; a non-profit assisted living facility for older women. Robert is an Adjunct Professor of Substance Use Prevention at the University of Maine at Farmington and was most recently appointed by Governor Mills to the State of Maine Board of Alcohol & Drug Counselors and serves as the boards chair. In 2021 Robert was awarded the Neill E. Miner Memorial Prevention Award and in 2014 was awarded Prevention Provider of the Year by the Maine Alliance to Prevent Substance Abuse.
B3 - Addressing the Spectrum of Mental, Emotional and Behavioral Interventions Within a Rural CCBHC
Monday, May 5, 2025
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM ET