Community Hope Board of Directors Announces Changes at the Top

has new leadership. The Parsippany group known for its and the mentally ill lost its president of 26 years when Carmela Lunt announced her retirement from the organization's board of directors last week. Walking away as president emeritus, Lunt handed the job over to the new president, Community Hope co-founder Eileen Griffith. The group's new vice president is Marilyn Lukach.

“Eileen is one of the founding mothers who worked so hard to establish our first community residences and has helped lead our expansion from serving five individuals in 1985 to more than 300 today,” said J.Michael Armstrong, Community Hope's CEO. “She is as an impassioned advocate for all individuals affected by mental mental illness and a champion of our veterans.”

Griffith is the current president of the Morris County Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. She previously served on the boards of NAMI-NJ and the Mental Health Association ofMorris County. She still sits on the Greystone Park (Hospital) Association and has volunteered at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital for the past 25 years. She is also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the wife of a Korean War veteran.

Ms. Lukach works for the Roxbury Public Library and is a past president of the Board of Trustees of the Wharton Public Library, a onetime Daily Record columnist and a retired nurse.

Community Hope, founded in 1985, serves more than 300 people recovering from mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse every day. The agency is also the lead charity serving homeless veterans and preventing homelessness for needy veteran families in New Jersey.