OHIO MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK FOR SCHOOL SUCCESS

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SBCOE partners with the Ohio Mental Health Network for School Success to facilitate programs that enhance K-12 student and staff wellness in schools and organizations like yours.

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Meet the Ohio Mental Health Network Team

Kathleen Oberlin

Director

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Sabrina Scott

NE Regional Lead

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Meri Skilliter

NW Regional Lead

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Mary Francis

West Regional Lead

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Amanda Hampton

CO Regional Lead

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Frances Witt

SW Regional Lead

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© 2024 by Ohio School-Based Center of Excellence for Prevention & Early Intervention.

Kathleen Oberlin

     As a partner agency to the School Based Center of Excellence at Miami University, we are excited to invite you to join the Ohio Mental Health Network for School Success (OMHNSS). The network aims to improve mental health services for students in Ohio and increase collaboration between mental health providers, families, and schools. As a member of this network, you will have access to a variety of resources, professional development opportunities, and student assistance and staff wellness programming designed to enhance your skills and knowledge in serving the mental health needs of students.

Sabrina Scott

Sabrina has a Juris Doctor from the University of Akron, Master of Education in Education Administration from Ashland University, and Master of Education in School Psychology from University of Cincinnati. Sabrina spent over 25 years serving public school districts throughout Ohio as a school psychologist, pupil services director, mental health and wellness director, and consultant. Concurrent to preschool to 12th grade service, Sabrina has maintained the teacher and student perspective in her 25+ years of teaching psychology and human development classes at Lorain County Community College. Sabrina’s entire career has been fueled by her passion to support the well-being of the whole child through an equity lens and systemic mindset. This included her favorite experience of volunteering in developing countries to be of service to schools and community agencies to help children access education and mental health services. All systemic and service roles naturally led to Sabrina being an affiliate for the Ohio School Wellness Initiative (OSWI), Behavior Health and Wellness Coach, Staff Wellness Facilitator, and the OMHNSS Peer Coach. She is also a certified Youth and Adult Mental Health First Aid Instructor.

Meri Skilliter

Meri spent her thirty-year education career as a teacher, principal and superintendent. She also is a volunteer EMT in her community, which led to involvement in Critical Incident Stress Management. She is an approved instructor of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) in group, individual, school, suicide awareness, and law enforcement perspectives. After retiring from school administration, Meri earned her Wellness Facilitator certification and worked with Miami University (Ohio) to provide wellness facilitation in the northwest region of Ohio. Currently, Meri is a Youth MHFA instructor and is working toward prevention specialist credentials. She is serving Northwest Ohio again, providing support in the area of staff and student wellness.

Mary Francis

Mary has an Associate of Applied Science in Human Service from Edison State College, a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from the Union Institute, and a Master of Arts in Adult Education and Distance Learning from the University of Phoenix. She is a certified prevention consultant, licensed social worker, and licensed independent chemical dependency counselor. Mary worked for seven years as Director of Prevention Services at the Addiction Services Council. She was an Adjunct Faculty Member at the University of Cincinnati Teacher’s College for 15 years and worked at Interact for Health for 21 years of serving it’s twenty-county tri- state region. During this time, Mary directed the Assistance for Substance Abuse Prevention Center and later led the Thriving Communities initiative, convening communities of practice and guiding community-led initiatives. Mary has published three articles on: a model for community-engaged grantmaking, mobilizing the faith community in prevention, and using the interactive systems framework.

Amanda Hampton

Amanda is Central Ohio native. Her family is the most important thing in her life. She loves to read, listen to music, bead, garden, hike, practice yoga, leisure and adventure travel and dances very poorly!

Amanda has been in the prevention field since 2010. As a past Family Services/Prevention Manager, Amanda became an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist and expanded prevention services from 1 PAX GBG program to 15 programs in the counties she served, including Youth Led initiatives. She is trained in the following EB programs: Alcohol Literacy Challenge, PAX GBG/Heroes, Trauma 101, Prime for Life, QPR, Sources of Strength, Youth Yoga Project, Mental Health First Aid, Youth Mental Health First Aid, Teen Mental Health First Aid, SBIRT, DBT Steps A, Botvin LifeSkills, GenRX, Catch My Breath, Truth – VAPE initiative, and Youth Led Adult Ally. Amanda has received the following awards: Ohio Adult Ally; Most Knowledgeable Instructor with Mental Health America (MHFA and YMHFA); Exceptional People award – Mental Health Recovery Board; OPPA (formerly ADAPAO) Member of the Year; and 2023 Adult Mental Health First Aid Instructor of the Year.

Frances Witt

Frances graduated with a Bachelor in Social Work from the University of Cincinnati. She worked with the Butler County Family and Children First Council (FCFC) for about 5 years as a behavioral health mentor with the Community Wraparound program, then as a Wraparound Facilitator, and finally served as the Training Coordinator on the Strong Families, Safe Communities grant. Frances worked with Project AWARE as a Community Educator. During this time, Frances received high evaluative scores on the various trainings offered to educators and communities. Frances served as the PAX Good Behavior Game Program Coordinator and as a PAX Partner. During the tenure of Project AWARE in Warren County, she saw over 200% growth in PAX trained educators and implementation. In 2017, Frances was inducted as a PAX National Trainer and in 2019 was selected to facilitate that year’s cohort of new national trainers. Frances continues to work with PAXIS as a Trainer for both their PAX Good Behavior Game programs and PAX Tools programs.