Senior Staff

Laurie Curtis

Senior Program Associate

Ms. Curtis is the Project Director for the SAMHSA Shared Decision-making in Mental Health project, a 3-year initiative to develop multimedia resources and interactive tools to facilitate and support collaborative decision-making among mental health consumers and practitioners. She also co-led a team developing an Evidence Based Practice (EBP) Implementation Resource Kit (Toolkits) for SAMHSA on Consumer Operated Services. Through AHP she also provides consultation to mental health authorities on many aspects of transformation to a recovery-oriented system. In her 30-year career in mental health, Ms. Curtis has worked as a practitioner, manager, educator, and consultant. She has expertise in policy and organizational development, community service management and service delivery, facilitation and technical writing. Recent writing includes planning documents for state and local mental health authorities as well as development of manuals on developing state-wide consumer networks, models of self-determined care, alternative dispute resolution, ethics/boundaries, and curricula for team-based training on workplace safety. She is also a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP). Her professional work is grounded in her lived experience with psychiatric disorders as an individual and family member.

lcurtis@ahpnet.com