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Patricia Hanberry M.A.

Chief Executive Officer

Pat HanberryPat Hanberry has been a mental health administrator for the past 19 years. Prior to her leadership at the Mental Health Association of Frederick County, she was a management consultant in two different international consulting firms based in the Washington, D.C. area. She received her Masters degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago.

More recently, Pat has worked with her husband on building partnerships between the churches they have served in North America and churches in Honduras. Pat also has accompanied her husband on a six-week trip to Central and South America to learn more about the mental health problems people there are facing, in order to better understand the issues they bring with them when they come to the United States.

Janet Garrett
Business Manager

Amy Thompson

Office Manager

Jan Sullivan Dockter
Director of Development and Marketing

Shannon Aleshire
Program Director, Child Care Choices

Suzi Borg
Program Director, Hotline

Beth Santa Maria
Program Director, Prevention Programs

Tina Spratt MA, LCPC
Clinical Director, Counseling Services


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