OCPOA QUARTERLY TRAINING

Gretchen Clark Hammond, Ph.D., MSW, LSW, TTS, has dedicated 24-year career her career to helping others and allowed her to work in the fields of treatment and recovery for mental health and substance use disorders (SUDs). She has worked across systems in behavioral health, criminal justice, and child welfare and recognize the complexity of understanding the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), community trauma, social determinants of health, and socioeconomics. As a social worker, Dr. Hammond is trained in understanding ecological systems theory with the recognition that the person-in-environment perspective is a lens that allows us to understand that most solutions cannot occur only at the individual level.

Dr. Hammond's passion is for the field of behavioral health and the intersection of policy and practice; she is research-driven in much of her work and has been a Community Lecturer in The Ohio State University College of Social Work for 18 years and a Community Lecturer for the Glenn College of Public Policy for three years. She believes that a strong system of care is built through innovation and collaboration. Dr. Hammond earned her PhD while working full-time at a long-term addiction and trauma treatment program for women and their dependent children, and teaching part-time, along with having both of her children during her first and third years in the program. While working full-time and going to school, she developed professional reports for grant-funded programs, and published peer-reviewed articles.

Dr. Hammond started her own company in 2012 to work more broadly with organizations at the city, county, and state level to address substance use disorders through a recovery-oriented system of care perspective with a trauma-informed lens. Throughout ten years of business, she has collaborated with organizations to secure federal funding for projects focused largely on co-occurring disorders. Her evaluation team is often called upon to be the Project Evaluator or Principal Investigator for federally funded projects based upon their subject matter expertise and ability to conduct mixed-methods research.

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