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Meet Our Speakers
Kay Newberry Brooks
serves as Chief Executive
Officer for Aspire Behavioral Health and Developmental
Disability Services in Southwest Georgia. A Licensed
Professional Counselor with thirty years of experience in
community behavioral health and developmental
disability services to adults, children, and adolescents, she
received her doctorate in psychology and counseling in
2012. Her experience and training include addiction,
trauma and post traumatic growth. She gained clinical
and administrative skills through a variety of challenging
job experiences such as hospice, geriatric, family and
children assessment services, and community behavioral
health and developmental disability settings. She has
served as an adjunct faculty member at two local colleges
teaching psychology and counseling courses and currently
serves on the board of directors for numerous local, county and regional organizations.
Aspire is among the top community service board safety net providers in Georgia. It
continues to expand its services in rural Georgia, promoting recoveryǦfocused “earlier
intervention” and maintaining individuals with supports in their community, decreasing
traumatization, and, thus, the need for a higher level of care. Aspire is a “blueǦprint”
model for training in its Child and Adolescent programs, Behavioral Health Crisis Center,
Early Intervention and personǦcentered Developmental Disability units. Aspire has also
successfully repurposed a closed, rural hospital into a 12Ǧmonth Residential Recovery
program.
Kay N. Brooks, EdD, LPC
Chief Executive Officer
Aspire Behavioral Health & Developmental Disability Services
Contact: 229.430.4005
Email:
kbrooks@albanycsb.org47