Sessions
Peer Support as Part of the Team
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM Tue
Mobile Crisis Foundational Training
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Wed
Janie is a person in long-term recovery and for her means she has not used alcohol or other drugs in over 15 years. Janie is in recovery from both addiction and serious mental health issues as well as homelessness, incarceration, and criminal justice involvement. She navigated all types of systems and institutions that can accompany such life experiences, from frequent hospitalizations to prison. Janie was released from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in September of 2006.
Janie first began her work as a Peer Support Specialist/Recovery Mentor in 2011. Janie joined the peer-run organization Mental Health & Addiction Association of Oregon (MHAAO) as a project assistant in 2014 and in May of 2017 Janie became MHAAO’s Executive Director. She also earned her Master of Public Administration: Health Administration (MPA: HA) degree from Portland State University in June of 2017.
Janie is passionate about social justice issues with a focus on mental health and addiction issues, recovery, peer programs and services and advocacy in these realms.