Meet the Lane County Prevention Team
Lindsey Adkisson, MPA
Lindsey is the newest addition to the Prevention Team and is coordinating the development of the Lane County Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). Through policy-based and environmental strategies, the “SPF” will focus on reducing rates of high-risk drinking among 18-25 year olds.
Lindsey got her start in prevention as an intern with Lane County Prevention Program while she was doing her graduate coursework at the UO (quack). She has a strong passion for building healthy, thriving communities from the ground-up and has worked on a variety of health and social issues both in the US and abroad. Her area of interest is in community organizing, health policy, rural development, and underage and high-risk drinking.
Oregonian by blood but a drifter by nature, Lindsey spends her free time exploring the nooks and crannies of our beautiful state (and beyond) by foot, bike, water, and road. Her other hobbies include trying to keep up with the local music scene, playing ultimate frisbee, crafting with her cat, and attempting gardening with an enthusiastic, but not-so-green, thumb.
C.A. Baskerville, CPS
Her duties are as varied as the curls in her hair...
C.A. is the countywide prevention coordinator whose responsibility includes
managing substance abuse prevention programs and activities for which Lane County H&HS
contracts or implements. She works cross-systems, including juvenile crime,
early childhood, etc., to help ensure greater coordination of prevention
efforts. She also provides project management for contracted prevention programs
across the county.
Additionally, C.A. provides staff support and prevention expertise for a variety
of programs and efforts across the county. This include staff support to the
Mental Health Advisory/Local Alcohol and Drug Planning Committee, the Perinatal
Periods of Risk project with Public Health, and has served on the leadership
team of Success by Six for the past several years.
C.A. is a certified prevention specialist, a trainer for the Substance Abuse
Prevention Specialist Training (SAPST) program and an adjunct faculty for the University
of Oregon.
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Julie Hynes, MA, CPS
Julie coordinates Lane County's problem gambling prevention program and manages the prevention program websites. Her greatest passion is providing youth with tools to help them be protected from addictions -- in them and loved ones.
Julie's current roles as problem gambling prevention coordinator include: developing interactive presentations, trainings and original educational tools; researching the latest trends in gambling behavior; and facilitating Lane County's problem gambling advisory committee.
Julie also designs and manages the prevention program websites, which include this site, Lane County Problem Gambling Prevention, and Oregon Problem Gambling Prevention. She is also the primary administrator for PreventionLane on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, SlideShare, and other social media. Additionally, Julie is an adjunct instructor for the University of Oregon.
Julie has a background as a registered dietitian, specializing in perinatal services and working with monolingual Spanish speakers. Her hobbies include taking taekwondo with her daughter, playing & watching football (go Ducks!), and nerdy fun with her family.
Monica Langley
Monica began providing her expertise to the Prevention team in December 2006. She has more than fifteen years of administrative experience and enjoys applying her skills and talents to assisting the prevention team with various tasks, which include organizing the prevention resource library, assisting with various Prevention events and much more.
Monica enjoys spending time with her family, bike rides, trips to the beach, baking and an occasional hockey game.
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Erin M. Leonard
Erin is our VetCorps Member and the newest addition to our team. Erin has a BA in Psychology and a BS in Sociology. She has 21 years in the National Guard to rank SSG E-6. Erin started and runs a Batterer’s Intervention Program and is on the Board of Directors for Real Food Coop in Florence. She is a former AmeriCorps Member and is interested in serving her community as well as her fellow National Guardsmen.
Outside of her work with the county, Erin enjoys kayaking the lakes of the coast and walking on the beach with her pug.
See more information at our section for veterans, servicemembers and their families.
Michelle Lowery, CPS
Michelle Lowery is coordinating building coalitions in Lane County communities. She is currently involved in the South Lane and Siuslaw areas but has worked with the McKenzie Community for Substance Free Youth and Oakridge-Westfir Together all working on underage drinking and substance use prevention efforts in Lane County. If your community is interested in coalition work, contact Michelle.
Michelle is also working to support Veterans through her work with the ad hoc committee under the Mental Health Advisory Committee/Local Alcohol and Drug Planning Committee. This ad hoc committee is focused on welcoming our returning veterans back into our communities. This includes connecting veterans and their families with prevention related community resources.
Finally, she is working with the Healthy Babies, Healthy Communities Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to reduce Lane County's high fetal-infant mortality rate by increasing the preconception and reproductive health, prenatal care and infant health in our area.
Michelle has worked with young parents as a family support worker in housing, parenting and life skills, coordinated county wide programs focused on child abuse prevention and homelessness, supported the mental health work under 100% Access and worked to reduce underage drinking and substance use throughout Lane County. Michelle is a lifetime Lane County resident and shares her love of sports, the outdoors, and laughter with her adult son.
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Sandy Moses, MS, CPS
Sandy is currently the Mental Health Promotion Coordinator. She has worked in various public health capacities for over 20 years and coordinated numerous projects, including the Hennepin County (MN) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Project, a Perinatal HIV Prevention Project, and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) and Perinatal Council for a 23-county region in California.
Positions she has held include: Sr. Health Promotion Specialist for the Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Dept., Regional Perinatal Coordinator for NE California, Program Specialist for the CA Dept. of Health Services, Training Coordinator for the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program, and Cancer Information Service Director for Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Sandy enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, movies, walking, biking, and gardening (when no weeds are involved).
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Mo Young
Mo has been a resident of Lane County for most of her life. Before joining the Prevention Team, she worked for the Department of Children and Families focusing on Positive Youth Development, Youth/Adult Partnerships and the 40 Developmental Assets, all of which help in her work on the Prevention Team.
Mo has a background in community organizing and social justice. Her hobbies include: sewing, volunteering in the community and spending time at home with her daughter, her partner and their 3 cats.
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