2007 Mary Corre Foster Award

Presented to Dottie Crosby

Dottie Cosby entered the field of human services after a career in business. She attended Mt. St. Joseph College and began her human services career as a social worker in a nursing home. As she developed an interest in clinical care, Dottie decided to take a position with Adult Protective Services working with the elderly. She reported that working "in the trenches" was one of the best experiences she has ever had developing her clinical skills.

Currently, Dottie Crosby holds a license as a professional clinical counselor with over twenty years of community counseling experience. She is a graduate from the Xavier University Department of School and Community Counseling and has taught in the Advanced Practicum class for the past six years. Dottie has been employed by Core Behavioral Health Center, a private non-profit mental health agency serving the western side of Hamilton County, for the past 16 years. She enjoys working with her colleagues to further the agency’s mission which is “to improve the general mental health of individuals and groups in the community by providing a continuum of behavioral health care services to help them achieve their maximum potential.”

She began her career at Core as a community case manager and now leads this department as the Director. The case management department otherwise known as “community psychiatric supportive services” is the largest department at Core serving over two thousand severely mentally disabled clients. Dottie also manages Talbert House’s SAMI site which serves severely mentally disabled clients with chronic substance abuse issues. Her three sites, which are “recovery focused” serves approximately twenty four hundred clients. Although, managing three sites and seven teams is often challenging, she finds it very gratifying and motivating to see first hand the significant impact her staff makes on the clients being served at Core and the SAMI program.

In her tenure as director Dottie has had as her focus increasing the clinical expertise with her staff in order to enable them to provide the best services possible to the clients served by Core Behavioral, and Talbert House.