Christopher Campau graduate from North Carolina State University with a bachelor’s degree in Social work. Mr. Campau currently works for the Addiction Professionals of North Carolina as the Collegiate Recovery Program Coordinator, where he works as a liaison between the NC/DD/MH/SAS, the University of North Carolina-General Administration, and all schools with a collegiate recovery community.
Jessica Dicken has over eighteen years of experience in substance abuse prevention and social services; primarily providing training and technical assistance to alcohol, tobacco and other drug (ATOD) prevention block grantees on topics such as the Strategic Prevention Framework, environmental strategies, data collection, strategic planning and coalition building. She currently serves as the Training and…
Patty McCarthy Metcalf, M.S., is the Executive Director of Faces & Voices of Recovery. She previously served the Center for Social Innovation as a Deputy Director of SAMHSA’s Bringing Recovery Supports to Scale Technical Assistance Center Strategy (BRSS TACS) initiative. In addition to public policy and education, her work has focused on community mobilizing, peer-based…
Steven A. Mange serves as Senior Policy & Strategy Counsel to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, where his current focus is on strategies to address the opioid epidemic. Steve previously worked as Senior Policy Advisor to the Illinois Attorney General, Executive Director of the Illinois Meth Project, and consultant to the National Alliance for…
Since 2010, Tessie Castillo has served as Advocacy and Communication Coordinator for NCHRC. She is the agency’s only registered lobbyist and has successfully advocated for several new laws pertaining to overdose prevention, naloxone access, law enforcement needle-stick injury prevention, and the legalization of syringe exchange programs.
Dale is the Director of the North Carolina TASC Training Institute at Coastal Horizons Center, Inc. He has worked with persons involved in North Carolina’s criminal justice and treatment systems for over 25 years as a probation/parole officer, drug court and TASC program director, and educator.
Tom Bashore is the Chief of Police for the Town of Nashville Police Department. He has over 19 years of civilian law enforcement experience and 24 years of military police experience. Chief Bashore holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Western Carolina University and a Master’s degree in Leadership from Bellevue University…
Melissia serves as NCHRC’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Coordinator, where she oversees Fayetteville’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) Program, works on expanding LEAD and helps oversee NCHRC’s law enforcement projects. Melissia is a experienced public safety project manager with 16 years experience serving as lead on a variety of issues. During her work with a…
Loftin Wilson is the Rural Programs Coordinator with the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition. He started as a volunteer with the NCHRC in 2010 and then worked part-time as a Harm Reduction Organizer for NCHRC for five years, before starting as full-time staff with NCHRC in the fall of 2015. He does overdose prevention, HIV/hepatitis…
Mary Beth Cox, MPH, joined the Injury and Violence Prevention Branch at the North Carolina Division of Public Health in January 2016 as an epidemiologist working on alcohol and other drug use in NC. She serves on several state and national workgroups aiming to reduce alcohol-related and drug overdose deaths.