Katy Stinchfield, MS, LPC, is Director of Behavioral Health Programs at the National School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA).  In this role, Katy leads SBHA’s mental health and substance abuse prevention initiatives, and supports a variety of consulting, technical assistance, training, and continuing education efforts for school and community-based health centers. Katy has worked with children and families in the mental health, education, and social services fields for nearly 20 years.  She is both a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed School Counselor in Oregon, as well as a Registered Play Therapist (RPT).  Prior to joining SBHA, she worked in rural Eastern Oregon as a clinical supervisor, developing school-based mental health programs.  Katy has a diverse professional history, ranging from working as a National Health Service Corps mental health clinician, crisis worker, and school counselor in Oregon, to teaching on the edge of the Navajo Reservation via Teach for America, to experiential wilderness education through the National Outdoor Leadership School, to family intervention services directed at preventing child abuse and neglect at a non-profit Relief Nursery, to instructing Youth Mental Health First Aid courses in diverse communities, to running after-school programs in a low income neighborhood to pay her way through college.  Katy has a dual endorsement Master’s degree in Community Mental Health and School Counseling from Oregon State University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in English from Willamette University.