Mark Blackwell

Experience

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  Poplar Springs Hospital

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1993

  Director of Managed Care

  of Managed Care Solicited, negotiated and managed contracts with third party payors.

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  Psychiatric Institute of Richmond

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1995

  Director of Business Development and Marketing

  Marketing and Business Development (Same as above)

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  Snowden of Fredericksburg/MediCorp

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2003

  Director, Business Development and Marketing

  Marketing and Business Development Inpatient behavioral healthcare hospital; Physician, provider, and employee relations; identify and develop revenue streams/referral sources. Physician recruitment, Joint Commission standards oversight.

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  CompManagement

  Jan 2003 - Sept 2004

  Contracts Administator

  Healthcare Contracts Administrator Solicit, negotiate and manage contracts for third party administrator/workers compensation managed care organization.

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  Substance Abuse and Addiction Recovery Alliance (SAARA) of Virginia, Inc.

  Jul 2005 - Aug 2013

  Executive Director

  Facilitated the development of Virginia’s premier advocacy organization for substance abuse prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery; leader/innovator in the field of peer provided recovery support services.Executive Director, July 2005 through September 2013 Selected by Search Committee to develop and execute a strategic plan to turn around poor financial performance, organizational development and sustainability. Credited with establishing organization as a relevant and resilient force within the State of Virginia’s behavioral healthcare system. Responsible for developing and executing strategic planning along with operational and fiscal oversight. Key Accomplishments: - Increased revenues by over 500% within 3 years by diversifying funding streams and product/service lines. Established reserve funds to prepare for unanticipated circumstances. - Developed fiscal and organizational policies and procedures that passed scrutiny of Federal, State, local and independent funders. Annual independent audits consistently confirmed outstanding fiscal management.- Conducted personal outreach to community stakeholders to turn around negative opinions- Developed nationally recognized peer-to-peer recovery support services, expanding mission of organization to become a human service provider. Through a highly competitive process, successfully “won” million dollar plus, multi-year contract from Federal government to fund implementation and operations of a peer run Recovery Center in Chesterfield, VA. - Consistently outperformed Board of Director’s expectations.Provided vision and leadership that brought about a coalition of stakeholders with exponentially greater political capital and influence concerning common causes. Show less

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  Richmond Recovery

  Nov 2013 - Jan 2015

  Vice President, Development and Operations

  Richmond Recovery Resources/Richmond Recovery Foundation – Richmond, VAVice President, Development and Operations, November, 2013 to PresentCharged with operationalizing vision of developing a recovery community organization whose mission is to offer peers the means of establishing a foundation for sustainable addiction recovery by providing appropriate supports, housing, and access to community resources. In conjunction, create and develop a 501 (c) 3 non profit for the purpose of providing a means to advocate for resources, rights and opportunities for those needing or seeking addiction recovery. Show less

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  Rappahannock Council Against Sexual Assault

  Sept 2014 - Nov 2015

  Executive Director

  At RCASA, we are dedicated to caring and helping people recover from sexual violence and abuse. We provide a safe, healing environment so survivors can express feelings, be understood and have access to a range of supportive and therapeutic services. We provide services for victims of sexual assault and their family, friends and partners in the form of hospital and court accompaniment, hotline, counseling, and prevention services. We take a holistic approach of working with the entire family. Beyond individual treatment, we have group therapy sessions for children, teens, men, women, and families of survivors Show less

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  Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

  Nov 2015 - Feb 2017

  Program Specialist

  Execute DBHDS vision to expand and enrich recovery support services, certification of Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS), develop infrastrucure for Taining of Trainers for PRS Certification, develop policy and infrastrucure for CPRS supervision. Advise DBHDS and the Community on expanding and enritching recovery support services. Act as a laison and collaborate with the peer community to identify and leverage resources to expand capacity. Day-to-Day management of providing customer service to internal and external parties. Coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders. Monitoring timelines and outcomes of projects. Serve as an ambassador, providing information about resources to CSBs/BHA/s, state facilities and the consumer community to assit in advancing recovery, reducing stigma, and advocating for the expansion of peer run, recovery oriented services. Show less

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  Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board

  Feb 2017 - Nov 2018

  Director of Consumer and Family Affairs

  Participates in executive management, strategic planning and policy development activities by promoting integration of recovery-oriented services. Provides a voice to individuals receiving CSB services and their family members in their role as self-advocates, assuring that their interests are represented and their input is considered. Serves as a liaison with peer-run organizations, consumer and family organizations and other stakeholders to establish ongoing communication, disseminate information and identify major issues in the recovery community. Participated in systems transformation, recovery-oriented systems of care, the implementation of recovery services and person-centered care. play a critical role in providing advocacy and support to individuals who have complaints about CSB services, and feel that their human rights may have been violated. Should be skilled at assisting in the resolution of complaints to the satisfaction of individuals and family members. The Fairfax-Falls Church CSB is a Copeland Center International Center of Excellence for WRAP®. Provides oversight to evaluation of service delivery and program satisfaction surveys;Engages community members in identifying issues and seeking solutions through prevention strategies, capacity building, resource development, and partnering;Establishes and maintains relationships and partnerships with community organizations and other human service agencies; Interprets the service to the community in order to provide the necessary understanding of client families to other community services and resources and to stimulate the required coordination and development of supportive services in the community; Show less

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  Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

  Nov 2018 - Sept 2023

  Director, Office of Recovery Services

  Leading advocate for increasing quality recovery oriented services throughout Virginia.

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  Virginia Recovers; Yager and Associates

  Sept 2023 - now

  Retired

  Providing support for Virginia's Recovery and Wellness Oriented Systems of Care; Serving individuals and families that are affected by substance use and addiction issues.