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Staff & Board of Directors

YSPP Director:
Sue Eastgard, MSW
Sue Eastgard has served as the director of the Youth Suicide Prevention Program of Washington State since 1997. She served as the executive director for the Seattle-King County Crisis Clinic for 3½ years and prior to that, spent over a decade providing outpatient mental health services to acutely and chronically mentally ill children and adults.

Sue is a Past-President of the American Association of Suicidology and was the program chair for their 1997 National Healing after Suicide Conference. She holds a masters degree in social work from the University of Washington.
Complete resume (pdf, 21k)

YSPP Staff:

Jennifer Barron, Deputy Director

Renee Arcement, Lead Public Education Coordinator

Heather Carter, GLBTQ Project Coordinator

Donna Flock, Administrative Assistant
Jan Leonard, Operations Manager

Raquel Reyes, Office Assistant
Lisa Watson, H.E.L.P. Project Coordinator

YSPP Field Coordinators:

Jaime Biava, East King County

Kristi Haynes, Benton-Franklin Counties

Celisa Hopkins, Yakima County

Kelly Horn, Thurston & Lewis Counties

Mary Jadwisiak, Clark & Cowlitz Counties

Renee Tinder, Pierce County

Cyndi Walters, Walla Walla County

Sandy Williams, Spokane County

YSPP Board Members and Affiliations:
Henry Berman, President
Children's Hospital & Regional Medical Center, Seattle, WA

Specialist in Behavioral Adolescent Medicine

Kathryn Portteus, Vice-President
Law Office of Kathryn R. Portteus, Gig Harbor, WA

Julia Laibson, Secretary
Marriage & Family Therapist, Mountlake Terrace, WA

John Wilcox, Treasurer
Avista Corporation, Spokane, WA

Financial Reporting

Michael Finley
Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Senior Marketing Manager

Patti McBride
Kadlec Medical Center & Walla Walla Community

College, Walla Walla, WA

Ryan Thurston
Inpinj, Inc., Seattle, WA

Senior Design Engineer

Leslie Walker, MD
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center -

Child & Adolescent Medicine, Seattle, WA

Lynne Williams, MD
Private Practice, Spokane, WA

Psychiatry / Child & Adoloscent Psychiatry

Amy Wiskerchen

Kent School District
School Counselor, Seattle, WA

Michael Wood
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Seattle, WA

Senior Consultant