Adria Clark
Biography
Adria joined the Center for Behavioral Health and Justice as a strategic and sustainability planning consultant in 2022. Adria is a licensed Master’s Social Worker with a professional background that spans 15 years of extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. During her career Adria has facilitated and implemented strategic and sustainability planning efforts on the local, state, and national levels. She has been providing services for strategic planning, sustainability planning, grant writing, and project management across sectors and coalitions among local community mental health agencies, universities, major public health departments, federally qualified health centers, jails, prisons, law enforcement, courts, schools, among other regional planning entities. An exemplary model of Adria’s leadership includes 2015 Monroe County jail diversion pilot initiative that evolved into developing, implementing and sustaining programs around Stepping Up, Mental Health Courts, Crisis Response and Michigan Re-Entry Project (MI-REP). Adria's professional highlights include partnering with local community leaders and stakeholders to build and integrate strategic and sustainability plans to support their communities’ goals, today, tomorrow and into the future.
Responsibilities
Adria serves as a strategic and sustainability project coordinator for the Jail Diversion and Crisis Response initiatives. She serves as a liaison bringing together diverse stakeholders and leaders within the counties, navigating relationships between systems and partners- including law enforcement, courts, health departments, hospital systems, probation/ parole, first responders, schools and community mental health agencies. Adria provides guidance and leadership to staff, teams and communities, providing strategic and sustainability planning services in addition to supporting the development of reports and proposals.
Degrees and Certifications
- Licensed Master of Social Work, Clinical (LCSW)
- M.S.W., Grand Valley State University
- B.S.W., University of Iowa