Jennifer McLaughlin, CPRP

In May of 1990, Jen McLaughlin earned a B.S. in special education with a concentration in psychology from Millersville University. Her professional career began  with employment as a group activity therapist for Community Services Group (CSG) partial hospitalization program in the fall of that same year.  Jen has continued her employment  with CSG for the past 24 years in various roles and capacities.  She was instrumental in the development and opening of the CSG’s first Psychiatric Rehabilitation program in 1994, andsince that time has played an active role in expanding psychiatric rehabilitation across 19 Pennsylvania counties where CSG provides services.   In 2002 she earned her CPRP, and currently holds the title of Senior Program Director, overseeing  CSG’s site-based and mobile psychiatric rehabilitation programs.

Over Jen’s 24 year career with CSG, she has been instrumental  in staff training and program development. Wellness Coaching, Daily Living Activities – 20and Common Ground Trainings are some of the staff trainings she has offered to CSG employees.and she is currently on a team that is developing a Motivational Interviewing Training to promote recovery-focused communication within CSG’s programs and services.. To add to the list of Jen’s development efforts,  she headed the expansion of CSG’s behavior health/physical health integration services byembedding a nurse navigator into mobile psychiatric rehabilitation.

Jen does not limit her passion for Psychiatric Rehabilitation to CSG programs only.  She served on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (PAPRS) from 2004-??.  In 2007, she accepted the position of conference committee co-chair and is currently finishing her last year as President of the Board. Over the past 5 years, she has maintained active involvement in various county and behavioral health managed care company recovery workgroups, Pennsylvania provider association government relations workgroups, and worked on the Pennsylvania State committee that wrote the psychiatric rehabilitation regulations that went into effect in September 2013.