Where
This is an online event.Coffee & Conversations: Supporting Children's Behavioral Health in a Post-Pandemic World
Please join us for a conversation with Rebecca Ross, Director of the Bureau for Children's Behavioral Health at the NH Department of Health and Human Services, about her Bureau's work.
About the Speaker
Rebecca Ross is the Director of the Bureau for Children's Behavioral Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to taking this position in January 2022, she served as legal counsel to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and other state agencies primarily in the areas of behavioral health, child protection, and the criminal justice systems. She started at DHHS in 2004 and then went to the New Hampshire Department of Justice (DOJ) from 2007 until 2018 when she left her position as a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Bureau to return to DHHS as General Counsel & Legislative Liaison for the Division for Children, Youth and Families. While at DOJ, Rebecca represented the State in state and federal courts, argued appeals before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, and provided legal advice. Prior to her legal career, Rebeca studied physical therapy at Northeastern University and was a practicing physical therapist. In 2002, she started at IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law where she focused on healthcare policy and public administration.