Kerrilyn Scott-Nakai

Select Roles:

• Executive Director at CARS
  Provides organizational vision and leadership; manages an internal staffing team of 20 employees, more than 200 consultants, and multiple subcontracting agencies; advises on mental health and substance abuse prevention areas of expertise; leverages insight from more than 20 years in the field at state and national levels; assumes bottom-line responsibility for reporting, contractual and fiscal management, quality assurance, accountability to funders, and scopes of work
• Executive Director, Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC), funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  Contributes to project-level vision and leadership; communicates with SAMHSA; provides technical and conceptual guidance on services and products; contributes to project plans; supports relationship management with other centers, regions, and agencies; assures quality and scope-of-work fulfillment
• Executive Director, Now Is The Time (NITT) Technical Assistance Center, SAMHSA
  Provides leadership on services delivered to more than 200 state, tribal, and local grantees; oversees successful fulfillment of project deliverables and scope of work across 4-year national project; guides implementation of SAMHSA priorities; manages six subcontractors and internal team; provides technical and conceptual guidance on services
• Executive Director, Project LAUNCH (Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health) Technical Assistance Center, SAMHSA
  Guides planning and delivery of intensive technical assistance services to 36 state, tribal, and Pacific region grantees; oversees development of online and in-person communities of practice and peer learning events; leads multiple subcontractors, including two universities; collaborates with SAMHSA on product development; oversees successful fulfillment of project deliverables and scope of work

Learn More About Kerrilyn:

Doctoral Candidate, School Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville
BS, Psychology, Business Minor, University of Florida, Gainesville

• Substance abuse prevention
• Workforce development
• Evidence-based practice
• Systems change
• Evaluation

• Project Director, Community Prevention Initiative (CPI), CARS
• Project Director, California Community Colleges Health & Wellness, CARS
• Project Director, Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Technical Assistance Project, CARS