Staff Bios
Abigail Pol, LSW - Program Director
Abigail Pol, LSW - Program Director
Abigail (Abbey) draws from more than 10 years of experience in Philadelphia’s behavioral health system. She is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in non-...
Elizabeth (Liz) Harrison, MS - Associate Director
Elizabeth (Liz) Harrison, MS - Associate Director
With over 20 years experience in social work, Liz has worked to couple her clinical and business background to provide an ongoing dialogue surrounding the subject of...
Donisha Burke - Behavioral Health Training Specialist
Donisha Burke, MA - Behavioral Health Training Specialist
Donisha Burke’s background in behavioral health encompasses work with serious emotional disturbance in youth and adults with serious mental illness in...
Akim Cooper - Data Operations Manager
Akim Cooper - Data Operations Manager
As Data Operations Manager for BHTEN Akim has various job responsibilities including computer related activities such as the provision of technical support for staff and creating,...
Jane Hall - Instructional Design Specialist
Jane Hall - Instructional Design Specialist
Jane Hall works as the Instructional Design Specialist (BHMIDS, assisting the BHTEN staff in converting the curriculum components for e-learning environment. With two decades...
Yvette K. Kamimura-Jones, M.S.- Associate Trainer
Yvette K. Kamimura Jones, M.S. - Associate Trainer
Yvette’s behavioral health background includes quality assurance, substance use disorders, and training development. Yvette is also on the board of directors for Women...
Kalma Kartell White, M.Ed, CPRP - Behavioral Health Training Specialist
Kalma Kartell White, M.Ed, CPRP - Behavioral Health Training Specialist
Kalma Kartell White has a Masters Degree in counseling psychology and is certified as a psychosocial rehabilitation practitioner (CPRP) by the...
Leah Mundy-Maher, LSW, Children and Adolescent Training Specialist
Leah Mundy-Maher, LSW - Children and Adolescent Training Specialist
Leah has worked with youth and families in clinical and social work settings for over 10 years. She has provided crisis intervention, victim support...
Sheyel Rorie - Registrar
Sheyel Rorie - Registrar
Sheyel has worked administratively for 25 years and has been with the Behavioral Health Training and Education Network (BHTEN) for the past 20 years. She has worked as a provider of behavioral...
Ryan Skimmons - Forensic Training Specialist
Ryan Skimmons, MS - Forensic Training Specialist
BHTEN is please to introduce their first Forensic Training Specialist - Ryan Skimmons. With over a decade of experience in the Greater Philadelphia Area's behavioral...
Kristen Stenson- Organizational Development Training Specialist
Kristen Stenson, MS - Organizational Development Training Specialist
Kristen (she/her) is BHTEN's first Organizational Development Training Specialist. She has received her Bachelor's in Cognitive Behavior Psychology...
Elijah Gethers-Jones - Clerical Assistant
Elijah Gethers-Jones - Clerical Assistant
As the new Clerical Assistant at BHTEN Elijah will work closely with the Registrar in support of all data entry, registration and day of training support for BHTEN. Elijah...