Leadership
EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM
The Management Team works as one team committed to Volunteer’s Mission. It is the Team’s belief that the key to organizational success lies in creating an environment where people thrive. Volunteer’s Management Team holds that philosophy and serves with a set of high standards by which the organization is measured, a set of values about how employees, colleagues, and communities ought to be treated and a set of principles that makes this organization unique and distinctive.
The following dedicated professionals are committed to excellence in the provision of mental health services. As dedicated leaders they serve together to reach desired goals, and they encompass decades of service in the Behavioral Health field. They are focused with a sense of direction for the future to the organization, employees and communities.
Executive Leadership Team
Phyllis Persinger
President/CEO
Phyllis Persinger
Gala Murray
Chief Compliance Officer
Gala Murray
Angie Hampton
Chief Administrative Officer
Angie Hampton
Aaron Hall
Chief Information and Technology Officer
Aaron Hall
Dawn Carlton
Chief Financial Officer
Dawn Carlton
Missy Johnson
Chief Human Resources Officer
Missy Johnson
Richard French
Executive Vice President
Richard French
Amanda Cook
Chief Business Development Officer
Amanda Cook
Leadership Team
- Connie Farmer
Sr. Vice President of Specialized Grants & Services - Laura Tedesco
Sr. Vice President of Crisis Services - Leah Pastula
Sr. Director of Crisis Services - Cindy Sneed
Sr. Vice President of Co-Occurring & Addictions Services
- Angie Stokes
Vice President of Nursing - Tamara Crutcher
Director of Auditing and Monitoring - Beth Walser
Clinical Director - Jeff Phillips
Property Director - Mary Chesnut
VP of Housing
- Ella Britt
VP of Community Outreach - Paris Freeman
Centralized Access/Customer Service Director - Bryan Herriman
Center Director - Shane Farris
Center Director - Kory Hendersen
Center Director
- Shirley Jennings
Center Director - Haylee McPhearson
Center Director - Janet Parrish
Center Director - Christopher Sales
Center Director - Anne Stamps
Senior Center Director
BOARD of DIRECTORS
Our Board is deeply committed to safeguarding the interests of the corporation and therefore they act on behalf of service recipients, funders, members, the government, and taxpayers. They are responsible for the fulfillment of the organization’s mission and the legal accountability for its operations.
- Chairman
Linda Bennett - Vice Chair
Drew Robinson - Secretary/Treasurer
Jerry L. Johnson
Board of Directors 2023 - 2024
- Mark Crocker
- Lt. Bill Davis
- Dr. Tim Fournet
- Chief James Hambrick
- Brenda Harper
- Jim Mercer
- Charles Morris
- Yvonne L. Peppers
- Grace Tomkins
- Ellyn Wilbur
- Jeff Dickson