HCRS Names Adult Services Director

Katherine Cook has been named director of the Adult Mental Health and Addiction Services program at Health Care and Rehabilitation Services.

Cook joined HCRS last July as director of its quality assurance program. Since then, she has made “significant progress on quality efforts across the agency, including numerous staff trainings, enhanced auditing processes and improved clinical supervision documentation,” the nonprofit said in a recent news release about her new role.

“I, along with the greater HCRS team, am determined to erase barriers created by stigma and discrimination and to strengthen the voice of those needing to be heard,” Cook said.

“Together we can address the myriad challenges faced by people experiencing mental illness and addiction and offer hope for healing.”

Before joining HCRS, Cook was chief operating officer of Monadnock Family Services, one of New Hampshire’s 10 designated community mental health centers. Her experience also includes a decade in Maine, where she served as director of behavioral health at Eastport Health Care, a regional federally qualified health center.

Cook also worked for many years as a mental health therapist, drug and alcohol counselor, and was director of social services for northern Ohio’s largest AIDS service organization.

She has also worked in several “front-line inner city and rural social work activities,” HCRS said.