HEALTH AND RECOVERY - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Clinical Social Worker, Boston Public Schools
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- Assistant Director
- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director, African - American Master Artists - in - Residency Program, Northeastern University
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- IHR Clerk
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Executive Leadership Team
- Executive Director of IHR
- Executive Director of the Institute for Health & Recovery, Inc
Katharine Thomas has served as executive director of the Institute for Health & Recovery, Inc. since March 2022. And, for 25 years prior, had worked closely with IHR founder and former executive director Dr. Norma Finkelstein.
Ms. Thomas has been working with high risk families in a variety of capacities for her entire career - as a child development specialist, and coordinator of intervention services for families. She has developed and overseen a program focused on training for Spanish-speaking family child care providers (The Childcare Project) and a program designed to build parent-child relationships in families affected by substance use disorders (The Kinship Project). She also served as director of program planning, policy and training for a Massachusetts-wide program providing services to families of young children with disabilities and delays (Massachusetts Early Intervention).
Ms. Thomas has participated in many policy development initiatives, including appointments to the Advisory Committee on Substance Exposed Newborns of the Governor's Opioid Task Force (2016-2017), the Cambridge Human Services Commission (appointed by Cambridge city manager 2012-2015), and the governor's Statewide Commission on Children, Youth, and Families (2011-2014).
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- President of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- IHR Treasurer
Dr. Finkelstein served as Chair of the US Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's Women's TIPS, as a member of the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Women's Advisory Board, and as a consensus panel member for the US Center for Substance Abuse Prevention's FASD TIPS. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Substance Abuse Subcommittee of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Association for Behavioral Healthcare of Massachusetts, as well as a number of other community and professional boards. She has been the principal investigator and manager of numerous health, mental health and maternal and child health grants and contracts.
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- Retired, Formerly Director of Family Residential Treatment Access, IHR