Raven joined Pinpoint Behavioral Health as the Director of Crisis and Wellness with a wealth of experience in various areas that directly relate to the mission of PBH. Raven is full of vigor and hope to expand the remarkable services that PBH offers to so many.

Before coming to PBH, Raven served the City of Dayton as the Mediation Response Coordinator for the newly developed Mediation Response Unit (MRU), which is a community response program aimed at improving positive police community relations, reducing the number of repeated calls for service and providing an alternative to police response for calls of crisis or conflict it the Dayton area.

Raven has more than two decades of experience in senior management, crisis intervention and management, community development, project management in the fields of law enforcement, children services, juvenile probation and victim services. 

Before her role as the MRU Coordinator, Raven was the director of a rape crisis and anti-human trafficking department in the non-profit sector of victim services. Raven’s knowledge of relationship building, community development and program development paved the way to develop multiple rape crisis centers throughout Ohio. Raven also developed and managed several anti-human trafficking coalition chapters that trained thousands of people on how to identify and report potential human trafficking situations and develop countywide protocols for response to human trafficking. 

Raven has trained thousands of professionals and community members at various conferences and forums nationally, statewide and locally on topics such as human trafficking, sexual violence, interpersonal violence, trauma, trauma responsive services, crisis management, conflict resolution, community-oriented programming and much more. 

Raven is a Licensed Social Worker who holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Louisville as well as a Bachelor Degrees in Social Work and a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Wright State University. Raven is a Certified Crisis Prevention trainer and a Registered Advocate in the State of Ohio. Raven’s passion is to raise awareness around social injustices and the inequalities of underprivileged populations in addition to reducing violence affecting all populations. Raven is a fierce advocate for change and her passion shines through her work.