Meet Us

Beckie Child - Board President

Beckie Child, MSW has helped create peer-operated drop-in centers and several peer-operated non-profit organizations. Beckie has provided individual advocacy services, consulted with people who use mental health services and have challenging issues, and advocates on systemic issues at local, state, and national levels. She attends Portland State University and is working on a Ph.D. in social work and social research. Beckie developed a curriculum to teach people how to talk to their prescribers about medication. She is a former chairperson and current member of the Oregon Advocacy Center’s PAIMI Council and a board member of Oregon Advocacy Center. Beckie is a member of the Oregon Addictions and Mental Health Services’ Trauma Advisory Council, the Consumer-Survivor Council and various other committees. Beckie self-identifies as a person who experiences mental health challenges and uses mental health services.

Vice-President

Meghan Caughey

Meghan Caughey was born in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up loving to draw and make art. When she was a freshman in college, she had her first hospitalization for mental health issues and over the course of the next thirty years, there would be over one hundred hospitalizations, including shock treatments, restraints, and seclusion rooms.

Despite the hospitalizations, she completed her MA and MFA degrees in visual art. Over the last nine years she has found what it takes for her to break the cycle of hospitalizations and is grateful to be living in recovery, working as Peer Wellness Coordinator for Benton County Health Services in Corvallis, Oregon. She developed and promotes peer-led wellness support groups. She also pursues work as an artist and writer. Meghan i

s a national speaker on wellness, art, and recovery.

Treasurer

Jo-Ann Sowers, Ph. D.

Secretary

Casadi Marino, LCSW

Board Members

Debi Parker

Kevin Bowers works for Multnomah County Department of Community Justice.

Karl Reer, MSW

Corbett Monica

Dually diagnosed and in recovery, Corbett has over thirty-five years of clinical experience in both mental health and substance abuse treatment delivery systems. He has extensive experience serving dually diagnosed individuals in multiple settings, including state hospitals and prisons. He is the founder of Dual Diagnosis Anonymous (DDA), a consumer driven self help support group for dually diagnosed individuals based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, plus an additional 5 Steps f

ocusing on dual diagnosis, that he developed. Holding a BA in Psychology, and a CADC II, Corbett is currently the Executive Director of Dual Diagnosis Anonymous of Oregon, Inc.

Executive Director

Rollin Shelton

Mental Health America of Oregon

c/o PSU/RRI

1600 SW Fourth Ave Suite 900

Portland OR 97201