Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center Elects New Board Members

Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center has elected four new members to its board of directors and selected board member Rochelle Michaux Conway to serve out the term as Treasurer of the late John Creek, Jr., who passed away recently.

New board members include Cynthia Kirk, Kristine Harshaw, Stanley A. Levi and Gail Makode.

Kirk works as a family peer support specialist at the Maryland Coalition of Families. She is on the Local Behavioral Health Advisory Board. She lives in Columbia.

Harshaw is a Group Supervisor in the Information Technology Services Department for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She lives in Columbia.

Levi is a retired executive director of a private family service agency. He serves on the Howard County Department of Social Services Advisory Board, the Howard County Board to Promote Self-Sufficiency, and the Howard Coalition to End Homeless. He lives in Columbia.

Makode is serving as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of IES Holdings, Inc. She lives in Clarksville.

Grassroots provides 24-hour crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and support to individuals and families with a mental health, substance use or homelessness crisis. For more information, visit www.grassroootscrisis.org.