Chief Quality Officer
Cara is the Chief Quality Officer at Harbor. She completed her Master’s internship as a student at Harbor from 1996-1997. Cara joined Harbor in March 2010 as a Clinical Therapist in the Youth Department. She transitioned to supervising case managers as an Assistant Clinical Manager. She was vital in helping to operationalize the Health Home services as a Team Leader and helped implement a new integrated model of care to address both physical and mental health. She became a Clinical Director in 2016 overseeing the case management and therapy department. In 2021, she joined the Senior Management Team and is responsible for the Quality Improvement and IT departments.
Cara is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with Supervisor designation. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Miami University and her Master's degree in Community and Agency Counseling from Heidelberg University.
Prior to joining Harbor, Cara worked at other local agencies doing case management, community and office based therapy, and working with individuals with developmental disabilities. She also lived in Minnesota where she was a custody evaluator for family court and in Michigan as a telephonic health coach. While at Harbor, she has shown versatility and has been assigned various projects over the years to utilize her clinical and administrative expertise to help with program development, such as starting up a partial hospitalization and day treatment program, providing administrative oversight of an Opioid Treatment Program, and supervising various other programs to formalize procedures and optimize efficiencies.