National Council for Behavioral Health

Brent McGinty became the chief executive officer of the Missouri Coalition for Community Behavioral Healthcare (MO Coalition) in January 2013. In this role, he advances policies and funding priorities that recognize the value of MO Coalition provider services – health care homes, disease management, outreach, wellness, integrated care, recovery and data/outcomes. From 2007 until his appointment as MO Coalition CEO, Brent was a senior staff member at the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH), beginning as director of budget and finance, advancing to director of administration of the Division of Comprehensive Psychiatric Services and, finally, being promoted to deputy director of administration for the entire department. From 1998 to 2007, Brent served as a budget analyst for the non-partisan Missouri Senate Appropriations staff. From 1991 to 1998, he worked in several positions in local government, including city administrator and budget analyst. His accumulated experience of 20+ years includes working during nine legislative sessions on eight state department budgets, as well as having direct responsibility for DMH contracts and budgets.

For more than 25 years, Jeanne Supin has guided behavioral health providers, authorities and payers through successful change and toward leadership, management and workforce excellence. She is skilled at helping seasoned and emerging leaders amplify strengths to create personal and professional transformation and improve services, organizations and systems of care. Her scope extends from programs and departments to whole organizations and integrated organizations with stakeholders across a system, region or state. As president and CEO of Watauga Consulting, Inc., (founded 1996) Jeanne offers consultation, technical assistance, training and coaching in the following areas: leadership and management development, change management, professional discovery and development, management across generations, self-care for leadership vitality, team excellence, workforce development and excellence, healthy conflict, affiliations and mergers, strategic planning and needs assessments.

Jeff Capobianco has 20 years of clinical and administrative experience in healthcare, with extensive background in primary and behavioral healthcare integration, evidence-based practice implementation, use of learning organizations, and Lean Six Sigma methodologies. He ran integrated health and family psychoeducation implementation learning communities and chaired the Michigan Family Psychoeducation implementation steering committee. He was a research investigator at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and the director of research and new program development for the University of Michigan Health System-based Washtenaw Community Health Organization, a four-county behavioral health managed care organization. He is a co-author of Implementing Evidence-based Practices in Mental Health: A Field Guide published by the National Council. Capobianco consults with behavioral health organizations on using evaluations and performance measurements in integrated health efforts.

Joan Kenerson King has worked in the behavioral health field for over 25 years and currently is Senior Integration Consultant; in which capacity she consults with organizations, counties and states on developing systems of care that integrate physical and behavioral health and promote recovery and resilience. She works across all levels of care in promoting change; from the direct care staff level through case to care training (add link to information) to consulting with state level policy staff on implementing changes that support increased health and improved outcomes. Her work over the past 25 years has reflected this commitment to conceptual alignment (understanding the why) driving practice change at all levels of care. She is an advocate of peer support programs and has provided training and consultation in supporting the development of the voice and stories of people in recovery. Her work included state, local and agency related recovery-oriented change. Joan is passionate about facilitating transformation in systems so that they fully embrace the voice and knowledge of the people they serve. Her keen areas of interest are the development of wellness-oriented trauma informed systems that include the voice of people in recovery and their families, integration of care across various systems and supporting innovation in rural and frontier communities.