Join Mental Health America of Licking County Executive Director Penny Sitler as she talks about finding peace and managing stress while working remotely during the current pandemic. Penny will offer ideas for coping and building resiliency.RSVP to get link to Zoom! (You can use your NEWORK Space login or if you don't have one, please enter your name and email.)About our speakerPenny Sitler joined Mental Health America of Licking County as Executive Director in November 2013. She oversees the agency’s strategic direction, day-to-day activities and resources while fulfilling its mission to promote and continually reinforce mental health and wellness through education, prevention and advocacy, and eliminate the stigma of mental health issues in our community. Penny enjoys educating people in all areas of mental health, facilitating Mental Health First Aid training throughout the community as well as offering shorter programs on everything from beating the winter blues to the healing power of friendship. Her goal is to get everyone talking about the issues they face, getting the help they need early to ensure positive outcomes, and recognizing when someone around them could use support and resources, all to promote a healthy community.Penny is an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist with Ohio’s Chemical Dependency Professionals Board. Penny is the treasurer of the Licking County Children and Families First Council and a member of the Licking County’s Addiction Task Force, Community Intercultural Relations Committee, Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention Coalition, Reentry Coalition, Correction Planning Board and the Emergency Food and Shelter Board. She served as the Chair of the United Way of Licking County (UWLC) Agency Executive Council and Community Partners Council and as a UWLC board member from 2016-2019.Before joining MHA, she was an account executive with Offinger Management Company in Zanesville for nine years, acting as the shared Executive Director of three different membership associations and a foundation, including overseeing all those groups’ conventions, conferences and meetings. Before that, Penny worked for the Thomas J. Evans Foundation and Newark Campus Development Fund. Fresh out of college, she was a systems engineer with IBM.Penny earned her bachelor’s degree in English and Political Science from Wittenberg University. She is a member of Newark Rotary and P.E.O. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, she spent most of her childhood in Perrysburg, Ohio. She and her husband, Gary, live in Newark. They have two grown children, Ryan (married to Ann) and Aubrey, and two granddogs and two grandcats.
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Penny Sitler joined Mental Health America of Licking County as Executive Director in November 2013. She oversees the agency’s strategic direction, day-to-day activities and resources while fulfilling its mission to promote and continually reinforce mental health and wellness through education, prevention and advocacy, and eliminate the stigma of mental health issues in our community. Penny enjoys educating people in all areas of mental health, facilitating Mental Health First Aid training throughout the community as well as offering shorter programs on everything from beating the winter blues to the healing power of friendship. Her goal is to get everyone talking about the issues they face, getting the help they need early to ensure positive outcomes, and recognizing when someone around them could use support and resources, all to promote a healthy community.Penny is an Ohio Certified Prevention Specialist with Ohio’s Chemical Dependency Professionals Board. Penny is the treasurer of the Licking County Children and Families First Council and a member of the Licking County’s Addiction Task Force, Community Intercultural Relations Committee, Prescription Drug Overdose Prevention Coalition, Reentry Coalition, Correction Planning Board and the Emergency Food and Shelter Board. She served as the Chair of the United Way of Licking County (UWLC) Agency Executive Council and Community Partners Council and as a UWLC board member from 2016-2019.
Before joining MHA, she was an account executive with Offinger Management Company in Zanesville for nine years, acting as the shared Executive Director of three different membership associations and a foundation, including overseeing all those groups’ conventions, conferences and meetings. Before that, Penny worked for the Thomas J. Evans Foundation and Newark Campus Development Fund. Fresh out of college, she was a systems engineer with IBM.
Penny earned her bachelor’s degree in English and Political Science from Wittenberg University. She is a member of Newark Rotary and P.E.O. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, she spent most of her childhood in Perrysburg, Ohio. She and her husband, Gary, live in Newark. They have two grown children, Ryan (married to Ann) and Aubrey, and two granddogs and two grandcats.