CBHA Board and Staff
CBHA is successful because of its expert team of staff guided by a diverse Board of Directors. You may contact the CBHA team at: (916) 557-1166 or email response@cccbha.org, and we will respond to your inquiries.
CBHA staff members look forward to assisting you!
Board of Directors
Executive Committee
President
David Mineta
Momentum for Health
Executive Vice President
Christina Miller, Ph.D.
Mental Health America of Los Angeles
Immediate Past President
Al Rowlett, L.C.S.W.
Turning Point Community Programs
Finance Chair
Tim Ryder
San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, Inc.
Vice President Public Policy
Simona Cataldo, Ph.D.
Victor Community Support Services
Secretary
Martine Singer
Children's Institute, Inc.
Directors-At-Large
Jack Barbour, M.D.
Southern California Health and Rehabilitation Programs
Henry "Harry" Bruell
PathPoint
Shawn Caracoza, L.C.S.W.
Pacific Clinics
Kent Dunlap
Star View Children and Family Services
Al Gilbert
Felton Institute
Steve Eckert
Alum Rock Counseling Center
Kathy Icenhower
SHIELDS for Families
Sarita Kohli
Asian Americans for Community Involvement
Josefina Alvarado Mena, J.D.
Safe Passages
Amanda Nugent Divine, Ph.D.
Kings View
Stacey Roth
Hillsides
Al Senella
Tarzana Treatment Centers
Utaka Springer, Ph.D.
Native American Health Center
Hugo Villa
The Village Family Services
Yolanda Whittington
SISTAHFRIENDS Women's Counseling and Eldercare Management
CBHA Team
Le Ondra Clark Harvey, Ph.D.
Dr. Clark Harvey is a psychologist and the Chief Executive Officer of the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies (CBHA). CBHA is a statewide advocacy organization representing mental health and substance use disorder non-profit agencies that collectively serve approximately one million Californians. She is also the Executive Director of the California Access Coalition- a group of advocacy organizations and pharmaceutical industry companies that advocates for patient access to behavioral health treatment. Dr. Clark Harvey has previously served as Chief Consultant to the California State Assembly Committee on Business and Professions, Principal Consultant to the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, and a health policy consultant to the office of former Senator Curren D. Price, Jr.
Prior to her work within the California Legislature, she completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She completed her pre-doctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles Mattel Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Clark Harvey has maintained an impressive record of leadership including serving on national and local boards including the National Council of Mental Wellbeing, American Psychological Association, Association of Black Psychologists, Sacramento County Public Health Advisory Board and the Sacramento County Children’s Coalition. Dr. Clark Harvey has received numerous local and national awards. In 2020, she was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to his Master Plan on Aging Advisory Committee and Behavioral Health Task Force. In 2021, she was appointed by California Lieutenant Governor, Eleni Kounalakis, to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Board and by the federal Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Advisory Committee for Women’s Services.
John Drebinger
John Drebinger III joins CBHA after serving extensively as an advocate for behavioral health reform in LA County (LAC). John worked in partnership with the LAC Department of Mental Health, LAC Department of Child and Family Services, LAC Youth Commission, UCLA, City of Long Beach, and the philanthropic sector to help connect the voices of community members with critical policy initiatives. John has a track record of convening cross-sector partners to solve the systemic challenges facing our behavioral health systems.
Before his time as a behavioral health advocate, John served as a Foster America Fellow. He worked to bring reform and prevention programs to child welfare systems through human centered design, community organizing, and policy reform. During his time as a Fellow, John worked closely with many of the behavioral health providers CBHA represents, finding new ways to ensure that families impacted by the child welfare system had access to quality behavioral health services. He was also selected as an IDEO CoLab fellow in recognition of his expertise in the intersection of media, storytelling, and policy reform. As a passionate and creative advocate for mental health and the social issues that intersect with it, John prioritizes connecting the real experiences of Californians with the policymakers and agencies that serve them.
Patricia Moreno-Gonzalez
Patricia Moreno-Gonzalez is a UC Riverside alumni, with a Bachelors in Political Science. Experienced in higher education policy and mental health reform, with a record of legislative affairs in local, state and federal advocacy. Former Vice Chair of the UC Student Association Board of Directors and Assistant Director of Government Relations at the Associated Students of UCR. First gen, non-binary, and by-product of immigrants, passionate about serving communities. Empowering the lives of LGBTQ+, underserved, and marginalized communities. Policy-driven and committed to fostering widespread knowledge and policies that protect and inspire comprehensive mental health and substance abuse policies for California.
Rachel Weingarten
Rachel Weingarten moved to California in the summer of 2021. Prior to moving to California, for over 17 years, she was Director of Community Training at Community Outreach Wisconsin, a program serving individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities living in the community. She has previously specialized in Member Services and Programming for KCTS Public Television in Seattle, WA, as well as serving as Lead Event Manager for Fighting Bob Fest in Wisconsin.
Rachel received her bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. In her free time, she enjoys creating things, attempting to garden, spending time with her family, and meeting new people with the help of her golden retriever.
Catey McSweeney
Catey McSweeney is originally from Los Angeles, California. A long-time social justice activist, she left her career in Real Estate to pursue her passion for helping others. She recently graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Political Service (Public Service). She is excited to bring her decade of experience to the behavioral health space to serve communities throughout California.
Jessica Rodriguez Landin
Being the first in her family to obtain a Bachelors degree from Sacramento State University, Jessica has continued her lifelong passion serving her community for over 8 years in various capacities before being offered an opportunity to work at the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies as the Office Manager & Executive Assistant for Dr. Le Ondra Clark Harvey.
Outside of work, Jessica enjoys adventuring out into the wilderness, loosing track of time in a book, and crafting her imagination into reality through Arts & Crafts. Jessica is also a self-taught avid baker who cherishes spending time with her family and friends.
Devika Bhushan, MD
Devika Bhushan, MD, is a pediatrician, public health leader, and writer on a mission to drive health innovation, equity, and resilience. Previously, as California’s Acting Surgeon General and the office’s inaugural Chief Health Officer, Dr. Bhushan was a key public health spokesperson, advisor to the California Governor, and led policy and practice innovation at a statewide level.
Dr. Bhushan’s policy, research, and clinical expertise spans trauma-informed systems, stress and resilience, mental health, and gender and health equity. Her work has been featured in The Lancet, Pediatrics, National Public Radio (NPR), The Los Angeles Times, and Healthy Children. She has served on Stanford’s faculty and trained at Harvard Medical School (MD, Cum Laude), Johns Hopkins (pediatrics residency), and Columbia (BA in Neuroscience and Behavior, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa). Dr. Bhushan serves as a senior advisor to entities that aim to advance health, innovation, and equity, including the Weitzman Institute, focused on primary care innovation, GreyMatter, a venture capital fund dedicated to mental health innovation, and Health Management Associates, focused on health policy and strategy.
Dr. Bhushan is deeply committed to destigmatizing living with serious mental illness and to promoting healing; to this end, she has shared her own journey with bipolar disorder publicly and launched a vibrant community to advance well-being through a newsletter and YouTube channel. Having spent her early years between the Philippines, India, and the United States, Dr. Bhushan is an immigrant and a first-generation American. She lives in San Francisco with her long-time partner and their son, and they are frequently on the road together.
Courtnie Thomas
Courtnie Thomas is the Senior Manager of Operations and Special Projects at CBHA. A Sacramento, California native she grew up understanding the importance of civic engagement. Prior to moving to CBHA, she worked at NextGen Policy and the California State Legislature.
In her spare time, Courtnie enjoys getting lost in the nearest book she can find, crafting artisan baked goods, and attending all of the extracurricular activities her son participates in.
Zoe Guttman, Ph.D.
Dr. Zoe Guttman is a Research and Strategic Growth Specialist at CHBA. She is also a California Council on Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the office of Senator Anthony Portantino, where she has worked on a wide range of budget and policy areas, including mental health, education, environment, and judicial and insurance issues. She also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Science Policy and Governance and was previously a Science Fellow with the Little Hoover Commission.
Prior to her work in the California legislature, Zoe received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from UCLA, where she investigated why people make choices that are not always in their best interest. She specialized in neuroeconomic research, combining cognitive neuroscience with behavioral economic models of risk and uncertainty to deepen our understanding of addictive disorders. With a passion for public health policy, Zoe was chosen as an Early Career Policy Ambassador with the Society for Neuroscience, a Science Policy Scholar with the National Science Policy Network, and a Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She also founded various groups, courses, and award programs at UCLA to empower other scientists interested in policy, advocacy, and communication. In her spare time, she enjoys reading very long books and playing with her rescue dog, Romeo.
P Moreno-Gonzalez
P Moreno-Gonzalez is a UC Riverside alumni, with a Bachelors in Political Science. Experienced in higher education policy and mental health reform, with a record of legislative affairs in local, state and federal advocacy. Former Vice Chair of the UC Student Association Board of Directors and Assistant Director of Government Relations at the Associated Students of UCR. First gen, non-binary, and by-product of immigrants, passionate about serving communities. Empowering the lives of LGBTQ+, underserved, and marginalized communities. Policy-driven and committed to fostering widespread knowledge and policies that protect and inspire comprehensive mental health and substance abuse policies for California.
Melissa Santos-Martinez
Melissa Santos-Martinez is a Fellow at CBHA. She began with CBHA as an intern through Health Career Connections (HCC), a program that encourages individuals to find empowerment in their passion for advocacy for reducing health disparities. She is an undergraduate student at the University of California, Davis, where she will obtain a Bachelor's of Science in Human Development with a focus on health and wellbeing.
Prior to CBHA, Melissa was a research assistant for the California Babies Project, a longitudinal study that aims to increase the representation of Mexican origin children in developmental research. She assumed responsibility for leading and conducting play-based tasks between mothers and their child, while upholding research integrity during all lab visits. Currently, Melissa also serves as a doula volunteer, empowering the birthing community while creating positive birthing experiences. She recognizes that services to treat mental health conditions such as perinatal or postpartum depression are not easily accessible for underrepresented communities. Melissa will be pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy in future to further advocate for the quality of integrated services to help mothers live a functional and purposeful life. In her spare time, Melissa enjoys being active and spending time with her family and friends.
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Sana Sayyid
Sana Sayyid is a Policy Fellow at CBHA. She began with CBHA as an intern through Health Career Connections (HCC), a program that encourages individuals to find empowerment in their passion for advocacy for reducing health disparities. Through this experience, Sana was able to learn about the underlying policies responsible for creating an effective change in the healthcare field. It allowed her to see the system that put into place the health protocols that physicians and all healthcare personnel follow and drove her to pursue her current position at CBHA.
Sana graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Bachelors in Biological Sciences and Spanish. As an aspiring physician, she involved herself in many premedical experiences during her time in university. As a board member for student chapters of the American Medical Women’s Association and Doctors Without Borders, Sana developed an interest in nonprofit work concerning topics such as women’s health and health equity from an early stage in her undergraduate career. To obtain clinical experience, she volunteered for the UC Davis Medical Center’s Emergency Department and Shifa Community Clinic in Sacramento. Through these experiences, she further cemented her passion for medicine and for providing aid to underserved populations.
Sana also engaged herself in numerous community-based, advocacy roles during her time at college. Some of her past roles on campus include Orientation Student Manager and Student Advisor to the Chancellor. These positions allowed her to learn more about the new student experience and develop programs to promote inclusivity and a greater sense of belonging. In addition, Sana developed her lifetime interest and goal of being an advocate for minority communities such as her own and to implement effective and useful change to serve society. Sana was awarded the Social Justice and Inclusion Award for demonstrating outstanding commitment to social justice in the areas of leadership, scholarship and service, and making a tangible impact on the university community promoting equity and inclusion. She was also selected to be Student Speaker at her Commencement Ceremony due to her many achievements during university, where she delivered a speech about taking advantage of opportunities when they are presented to you and leading the way with purpose.
During her free time, Sana enjoys spending time with her family and friends, binge-watching shows, reading fantasy fiction novels (always an inner kid at heart), bullet-journaling, and going on long walks.
Capri
Senior Mascot and Wellness Manager
Capri
Born in Seattle, WA, Capri is a happy NorCal transplant. She loves long stroller rides, new friends, playing one-way fetch (is there any other way?), and all things food.
Capri serves as the CBHA lead on self-care, wellness, and being adorable.