David Pilon, PhD, CPRP

David received his doctorate in Social Psychology from Harvard University in 1981. He is a licensed psychologist and is currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer and President for Mental Health America of Los Angeles. In 1989, he was the lead writer for the grant writing team that produced the successful bid to design and implement the Village Integrated Service Agency in Long Beach, California. He has consulted in the design and transformation of mental health programs and systems throughout the United States, New Zealand and Japan. He is a past president for the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies and currently serves on the Evaluation Committee of the Mental Health Services Oversight and Advisory Commission.

Dr. Pilon has presented numerous workshops on ethics and leadership issues in psychosocial rehabilitation as well as on the development of outcome measures for social rehabilitation programs. From 1999 through 2007, he served as the lead evaluator coordinating the collection and analysis of data documenting the effectiveness of the Integrated Services for the Homeless (AB34) program serving nearly 5000 people who are mentally ill and had been incarcerated and/or homeless.

Dave is the co-creator of the Milestones of Recovery Scale and has served on the Performance Measurement Advisory Committee (PMAC) for the California State Department of Mental Health. He is the Principal Writer for the California Institute of Mental Health’s Full Service Partnership Performance Measurement Toolkit. In 2004 he received United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association’s (USPRA) Armin Loeb Award for outstanding research in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation.