Chief Operating Officer

Danielle is a native of El Paso, Texas, holds a Master’s in Public Health and a Master’s in Public Administration both from Walden University. She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Texas at the Permian Basin. Danielle has extensive experience in non-profit organizational and project management, strategic planning, performance improvement, coalition building, and cross-disciplinary capacity development through training, technical assistance, and public education/awareness activities. She worked in El Paso, Texas for over 10 years in the fields of behavioral health, substance abuse prevention, treatment and recovery, and early childhood, with a special focus on infant mental health. Danielle managed several state and federally funded grant projects focused on community and capacity development. She also led organizational level performance improvement initiatives for behavioral health providers. She managed the El Paso Project LAUNCH program, which increased community level collaboration and became a model for Texas early childhood partnership projects. Over the course of her work, Danielle worked with multiple nonprofit organizations and community collaboratives to improve community behavioral health services through cross collaboration and policy development. She facilitated and participated in various state and community level improvement projects such as state and local recovery oriented systems of care transformation groups, state and local infant mental health associations and early care and education associations, youth alcohol prevention policy groups, behavioral health task forces, state and local early childhood comprehensive workgroups, and community and academic health science partnership workgroups. Danielle is a certified trainer for the National Council of Behavioral Health as an Adult and Youth Mental Health First Instructor and is a trainer for the Ages and Stages Developmental and Social Emotional Screening Questionnaires. Danielle is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Southern Early Childhood Association, and the Texas Association of Infant Mental Health.