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Bio: Bill Harper, Assistant Director at Ohio Department of Mental Health

Bill Harper, Assistant Director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health
 Harper has served as executive director of the Lorain County Board of Mental Health since 2002.

From 1994-2002, Harper was the executive director of Mental Health Recovery Services of Warren and Clinton Counties, an alcohol, drug addition and mental health services board. He served as the executive director of the Four County Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services in Archbold from 1987-1994.

Harper previously worked as an assistant professor for social work at Bowling Green State University from 1984-1994, the director of Client Services/Programs for Quadco Rehabilitation Center in Stryker, Ohio, from 1983-1987, the social work director for Cambridge Mental Health and Developmental Center from 1981-1983, and as a social worker at Lima State Hospital from 1977-1979.

“I look forward to working with mental health consumers and their families, county boards and provider networks and our state-operated behavioral health organizations to provide high quality services to adults and children in Ohio needing support, encouragement, treatment and rehabilitation to overcome mental illness,” Harper said.

Harper received a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University in 1976, and master’s degrees in public administration and social work from Ohio State University in 1981.