Michele Gordon is a licensed social worker with a PhD in Community Engagement. Dr. Gordon has 15 years of behavioral health experience in a variety of areas: evaluator clinician, inpatient psychiatric social work, outpatient individual and family therapy, community treatment team.  Dr. Gordon has two years of case management experience with individuals with serious and persistent mental illness and substance use disorders as a forensic specialist and a high risk care manager in a managed care organization. Additionally, Dr. Gordon has previous experience as a training coordinator developing curriculum and facilitating training for internal staff and local community human service agencies: crisis management, trauma, substance use disorders, serious and persistent mental illness, suicide prevention and intervention, gender responsive programming, crisis-oriented families, professional development.

 

 

Mr. Connell has a master’s degree in Exercise Physiology and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Connell was a Health Coach at the UPMC Health Plan for six years where he had extensive experience coaching members to adopt healthy behaviors, including smoking cessation, physical activity, nutrition, stress management, and weight management. Mr. Connell was responsible for training the engagement and coaching skills of the lifestyle health coach team from 2010 to 2015. Mr. Connell is currently responsible for improving the engagement and Motivational Interviewing skills for clinical staff at the UPMC Health Plan, including RNs, Health Coaches, and Case Managers.