Brandon Howlett, MS – Brandon began his career in the human service field in New Haven, Connecticut in 1995 working as a Youth Coordinator/Mediator for a non-profit consultant agency called S.N.D.H. In this role he delivered violence prevention verbal techniques and critical thinking workshops to the inner-city populous in the NYC Tri-State area.
After moving to Albany, Brandon completed his M.S. in Educational Administration and Policy Studies at the University at Albany. In early 2007, Brandon joined the Parsons Child & Family Center team as an Individualized Care Coordinator in the State Office of Mental Health (OMH) Home & Community Service Based Waiver Department (HCBSW). Brandon’s role with HCBW was to provide guidance, linkage, support, and rehabilitative advisement through intensive in-home contact and intervention practices to individuals that receive mental health services through OMH. After a nearly a decade of in-depth work with the HCBSW program, Brandon was able to solidify a mastery skillset in the areas of service linkage, assessment & professional consultation, planning & development, and outcomes monitoring. He served on the Northern Rivers Strategic Planning Working Committee and the Human Resources Management Committee. In October 2016, Brandon joined the SATRI training team full time in the role of Project Coordinator. Brandon oversees the Bridges to Health training contract, actively trains the Netsmart software package to health home network members, provides CANS-NY training to Voluntary Foster Care Agenciesacross the state, and facilitates training on a variety of different topics to the workforce within Northern Rivers.