About CMHRC
Our Mission
The Children’s Mental Health Resource Center provides guidance and resources for the early identification and management of mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and its newly recognized phenotype, Thermoregulatory Sleep Dysregulation disorder, otherwise known as FOH.
From top to bottom CMHRC’s board, staff, and volunteers represent the lived experience of mental health challenges. We seek to elevate the voices of those who both survive and thrive while living with mental illness.
CMHRC offers a series of programs and services designed to support and educate families as well as the practitioners who treat them. Through this work we seek to expand the depth and breadth of services available to families and providers, and to provide education on the unique presentation of mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and Fear of Harm in children.
Our goal is to make sure kids, families, and providers don’t have to reinvent the wheel and are able to get on the path to stability.
CMHRC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The fees charged for our programs and services are kept at below market rates because we believe that good quality mental healthcare support should be available to as many people as possible.
Charitable giving supplements the cost of running our programs and services and provides funding for our free resources, supports, and educational efforts.
Remember…
You’re Not Alone. We’re Here to Help.
The People of CMHRC
Elizabeth Errico, Founder & Executive Director
(Read Elizabeth’s Welcome Message here.)
Elizabeth founded CMHRC after years as a mental health professional with a varied, decades long, career in the fields of counseling psychology, education, and psychiatry. Throughout those years she saw the desperate need of children and families who struggle to find answers and support from a complex mental healthcare system that often ignores or minimizes their concerns. CMHRC grew out of the awareness that these families and their providers deserve better access to information, resources, and expert guidance as they seek accurate diagnosis and effective treatment.
Prior to founding CMHRC Elizabeth spent more than 3 years as the Executive Director of the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation (JBRF) where she designed, implemented, and ran outreach, education, and advocacy programs for families and practitioners. She is a licensed mental health counselor and psychotherapist with extensive experience working with individuals, couples, and families. In addition to the years she spent in private practice, Elizabeth was also a provider in the partial hospitalization program (PHP) at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and worked as an intensive out-patient (IOP) provider at Somerset Treatment Services substance abuse treatment center. She taught undergraduate psychology at Kean University for nearly a decade, and has worked as a consultant to nonprofit organizations advising on positive team-building and productive internal communication processes.
Elizabeth is a member of the Coalition for Metabolic Health, and a member of its Scientific and Clinical Advisory Committee.
Elizabeth earned a BA in psychology from Georgetown University. She attended Columbia University, Teachers College for graduate school where she earned Master’s Degrees in both psychological counseling (MA) and in counseling and education (Ed.M.). In graduate school she studied under Dr. Robert T. Carter, author of The Influence of Race and Racial Identity Theory in Psychotherapy and Measuring the Effects of Racism. Elizabeth did her graduate internship at The Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center in New York City in their HIV/AIDS bereavement program counseling those who’d recently recently lost a loved one as well as those recently diagnosed with a terminal illness. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and the National Board of Certified Counselors.
Angela Jamison, Training and Outreach Director
Angela is an adoptive mother of five with a passion for supporting and educating children and families. After earning her BA in Elementary Education from Northern Kentucky University, she spent many years at home as a foster mother, healing trauma and building relationships with the many children that entered her home, with their birth families, friends, and community partners.
After fifteen years witnessing the trifecta of trauma, overworked caseworkers and ineffective legislation within the child welfare system, Angela received her Masters of Social Work from the University of Kentucky with a Trauma Responsive Practice Certificate. She continued on to become a Certified Social Worker in the state of Kentucky and a Licensed Social Worker in the State of Ohio.
Angela spent eleven years in education prior to staying home with her children and offers training and support to foster and adoptive families as CMHRC’s Adoption and Foster Care Specialist. She strives to make families feel heard, welcome, and understood on their journey whether that be foster, adoptive, mental health or a combination of these.
Having children with diagnosis from bipolar to autism, ADHD, Tourette’s, OCD, anxiety and more, Angela understands the isolation that comes with standing out in society, but also the peace and power that comes with embracing our children and family’s beautiful differences. She hopes to empower families with the strength and confidence to parent their children for their children, not society or others’ expectations.
Jana Cupp, Family & Patient Education Director
Ms. Cupp joined CMHRC after volunteering with the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation as a parent education and support specialist. Through this work, Ms. Cupp was inspired to make a career shift to become a mental health clinician to provide much needed medical context and expertise to the community. Ms. Cupp is a licensed CNA and is currently pursuing a nursing degree with the intended goal to become a DNP specializing in mental health. With this additional training and certification Ms. Cupp is able to support the CMHRC community of families as well as professionals in understanding the medical implications of mental health disorders.
Through her past volunteer work with CMHRC and current work in the medical field, Ms. Cupp is uniquely positioned to support the parents and children who live with JBD and the various complications this brings to their physical and mental health. Ms. Cupp is CMHRC’s Family and Patient Education Director and senior program facilitator for the Ketogenic Therapy in Action program.
Jennifer Sevick, Clinical Director 
Jennifer, is a Licensed Independent Social Worker. Jennifer has worked in a variety of settings which include community mental health centers, medical practices, alcohol and substance abuse treatment, private practice, and end of life care with older adults. Building on the varied skills she learned while working in hospice settings, Jennifer continues to embrace a palliative approach to her work with individuals and families who are impacted by mental illness.
In 2012, her child was diagnosed with early onset pediatric bipolar disorder at the age of six. Since then, Jennifer has immersed herself in studying how to identify and effectively treat bipolar disorder throughout the lifespan. She brings her personal and professional expertise to CMHRC after volunteering with the Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation (JBRF). She hosts discussions related to mood disorders in children and provides support to parents and caregivers of people living with bipolar disorder.
In addition to her work with CMHRC she is building a private practice centered on persons living with mood disorders, chronic life threatening illness, grief, and caregiver support.
Jennifer earned a Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of Georgia and a Master of Social Work from the University of South Carolina. In 2023 Jenn received the ‘Mental Health Advocate of the Year’ Award from Mental Health America’s South Carolina chapter.
Joshua Castillo, Palliative ParentingTM Course Facilitator and Ketogenic Therapy in Action Mentor
Joshua helps families find joy while navigating challenging behaviors in early childhood. Her approach and philosophical foundation is eclectic. Palliative ParentingTM, attachment parenting, RIE, mindfulness, and traditional parenting all support a parenting foundation that promotes a deep and authentic connection between parents and children. She strives to connect not only the child to the parent but, more importantly, to connect the parent to themselves. Her ultimate goal is not to create parenting perfection but to create genuine connection.
Joshua co-facilitates CMHRC’s Palliative ParentingTM class, and is a senior member of the team, working on CMHRC’s Ketogenic Therapy in Action! longitudinal research study and fee-for-service program for children, teens, and adults.
Kamuela Klemmer, Ketogenic Therapy In Action Mentor
Kamuela Klemmer has spent her life teaching from the heart. Her background includes a PhD in American Studies, studies in Sufism, Waldorf handwork and education and decades of experience teaching, the last 20, teaching sewing as an act of joy. She has three sons 29, 26 and 10.
Kamuela believes the need for home to be a soft place to land at the end of the day is vital for a family. She knows changing a family’s eating habits changes so much more than the grocery list and looks forward to supporting families as they navigate these changes together.
Keri Kelley, Ketogenic Therapy In Action Mentor
Ruth LeFaive, Bookkeeper
Ruth has provided bookkeeping services for a variety of arts and entertainment companies, as well as nonprofit organizations, for over a decade. She is also a fiction writer and serves as Treasurer for Split Lip Magazine.
Volunteers
Alissa Fugazzi, Clinical Support Specialist
Alissa is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of North Dakota. She earned a Bachelor of Social Work in 2002 from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a Master’s Degree at the University of North Dakota in Social Work in 2006. Alissa has practiced Social Work since 2002. She has worked in a variety of settings and currently owns a private practice. Alissa provides individual therapy to children and adults as well as family therapy.
She understands how isolated people can feel while enduring the stresses that come along with navigating the world of mental illness and mental health care treatment. She supports her clients and their families while helping them know that they’re not alone.
Anne Reid, Outreach Specialist
Anne is a Certified Life Coach who is passionate about the benefits of coaching. Through coaching she offers a catalyst for change, a focused plan, honesty, accountability, and measurable results. Anne brings her considerable skills as a life coach to her role as a CMHRC support group facilitator and outreach coordinator. She gives personal attention to each parent or loved-one who is new to our community, welcoming them into the group with warmth, empathy, and an unwavering respect for their journey.
Danielle Ott, Family Support Specialist
Danielle lives in the mid-western US and knows first hand the challenges that face kids and families living with mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and Fear of Harm. The mother of a teen with Bipolar FOH, Danielle works tirelessly to educate her community on the challenges children and families face while living with these disorders. She’s an outspoken peer educator who assists parents who are learning to identify symptoms and manage them effectively at home. She’s a tenacious advocate for her children and has extensive experience in both navigating the public school system with a special needs child as well as in how to effectively homeschool a teen with Bipolar FOH. Danielle brings to the CMHRC team a passionate drive to support other families and children as they come to accept their diagnosis and begin their journey on a path to wellness.
Lisa Blackstone, Neurodivergence in Education Specialist
Lisa LeMay, Palliative Parenting Course Instructor
Lisa, is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has worked for the past 30 years in helping professions, including education and pastoral ministry. She walks alongside people with all kinds of hurts and helps to find strategies that help ease the burden. Lisa’s personal experience with adoption, anxiety, depression, and working through spiritual crisis informs her work in supporting patients, parents, and families.
CMHRC’s Board of Directors
Board Officers
Graham Long, Chair
Graham is a New York-based education professional whose portfolio includes teacher professional development workshops, curriculum development, and the management of a variety of different programs to improve the economic literacy and personal finance knowledge of teachers and students across the country. He was previously a curriculum and assessment specialist for the Maryland State Department of Education, and began his career as a high school social studies teacher in the Baltimore County Public School system. In 2011 Graham was a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to study economics and education in China.
Mike Depew, Treasurer
Mike is Head of Client and Partnership Development at MonkeyPod. He works with non-profit organizations to leverage their people, technology, and data in order to generate greater impact in the world. Mike is a seasoned mentor and educator and is passionate about supporting underserved communities.
From 2010-2018, Mike served as the inaugural Director of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3), a grant-funded education and diversity initiative hosted at the University of Pittsburgh. He was awarded the 2015 University of Pittsburgh Chancellor’s Award for Affirmative Action, Diversity, & Inclusion on behalf of the program.
Mike has worked in program management in the healthcare technology sector, developed and taught courses in project management, and served as a learning specialist and certified tutor in economics, accounting, and statistics.
He earned his MBA and bachelor of science in economics and political science, summa cum laude, from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Becca Simons, Secretary
Becca is a visual artist who has contributed to organizations including Glen Echo National Park, The Artists’ Network, Palos Verdes Art Center, as well as the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival. A graduate of Pratt, with a major in painting and a minor in art history, Becca is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer who has studied flora, fauna, and botanical illustration. In support of her art, Becca has worked in the public as well as private sector with extensive experience in arts administration. She helped coordinate the Arts Bridge program at UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture and served as an admissions counselor for UCLA’s Department of Music and Ethnomusicology. Becca earned a Masters in Education from University of California Los Angeles and worked in the Los Angeles public school system as a social justice educator with kindergarten aged children. She’s also enjoyed raising guide dog puppies for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Becca is deeply committed to supporting children and families living with special needs and draws on her extensive background in education and the arts, in service of the mission of the Children’s Mental Health Resource Center.
Board Members
Emily Baxi
Emily Baxi, PhD, is the director of the Integrated Network program at Breakthrough Discoveries for thriving with Bipolar Disorder. A neuroscientist and educator, Emily works to advance the scientific research field in part by identifying opportunities to meaningfully advance biomedical research. Emily was an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University where she served as the executive director of the Packard Center for ALS Research and program director for Answer ALS, a multi-institutional ALS research program. She holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacology from University College Dublin, Ireland, and a doctorate degree in neuroscience from George Washington University. She completed postdoctoral training in neuroimmunology at Johns Hopkins University.
Kamal Sinclair
Ms. Sinclair is a principal collaborator in the family creative practice, called Sinclair Futures, which makes art, designs programs, and facilitates creative foresight processes for a spectrum of organizations, communities, and companies, as well as conducts research, and supports knowledge generation at the intersection of art, technology, science, media, and equitable futures.
Sinclair Futures clients include the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms program, Johns Hopkins University’s Immersive Storytelling and Emerging Technology Center, NYU Tisch’s Future Imagination Collaboratory, For Freedoms, and Sundance Institute’s Future of Culture Initiative, Guild of Future Architects, among others. In this role, she also served as an External Advisor to the MacArthur Foundation’s Journalism & Media Program.
Formerly, she was the Executive Director of the Guild of Future Architects; the Director of Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Labs Program for seven years, which supports artists working at the convergence of film, art, media, and technology. She partnered with Chief Curator, Shari Frilot, in the development and platforming of landmark projects in the evolution of the story, including experimentations with XR, iOT, and AI as storytelling mediums.
Ms. Sinclair was an artist and producer on Question Bridge: Black Males. At Question Bridge, she and her collaborators launched a project with an interactive website and curriculum; published a book; exhibited in over sixty museums/festivals; won International Center for Photography’s 2015 Infinity Award for New Media; and was archived at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Sinclair was a Transmedia Producer at 42 Entertainment and worked on projects such as Legends of Alcatraz for J.J. Abrams, Mark of the Spider-Man, and Random Acts of Fusion; as Principal at Strategic Arts Consulting, and the Artistic Director of Universal Arts. Her career began as a cast member of the Off-Broadway hit STOMP.
Robert Cupp
Bob recently retired from over 3 decades in higher education. Over his academic career he had numerous roles, but the most important role was always “Teacher” – to help students discover their purpose, embrace their passion and have a life filled with joy! While he enjoyed teaching a wide variety of courses he remains passionate about Statistics, Research Methodology and Developmental Psychology. Since we live in a world that relies on data and mathematical analysis statistics gives us the quantitative literacy skills needed to help us understand our world. Likewise, research methodology gives us a conceptual framework to appreciate and evaluate peer reviewed scientific research. Finally, Developmental Psychology provides a family systems perspective that helps us understand how family members meet the challenges of life. Rather than focusing on the individual the family systems perspective demands a much broader view of how family members’ roles change over one’s lifespan. For example, I’m enjoying my role as grandfather of a special needs child. His honesty, loyalty and bluntness are refreshing. In addition, his is ability to deeply focus on a task and his memory of mathematical details are remarkable.
Trishia Domingo 
DMV native and a first generation Filipino, Trishia Domingo graduated from UMBC where she earned her Information Systems degree. Her first taste of working in the health and healing spaces began while she worked as a Geriatric Nursing Assistant throughout her college years. Since 2016, she has worked for Accenture, specializing in healthcare and technology projects for federal government agencies.
Trishia was awarded Woman of the Year by the Multicultural Student Services during her time at Frederick Community College for her academic excellence and dedication to being a student leader and peer mentor. During her time at UMBC, she was the President of Information Systems Council of Majors, President of Club Field Hockey and member of Women in Learning & Leadership. Today, Trishia is a passionate servant leader to her various communities and aims to do her part in helping to make the world a better, more heart centered space for all.
CMHRC Special Advisors
Adam Huttler
Adam Huttler is a serial entrepreneur at the intersection of technology, culture, and social justice. His work emphasizes innovative business models and revenue strategies for mission driven companies, in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors.
Adam currently serves as the founder and CEO of MonkeyPod, an all-in-one software platform for nonprofit organizations that supports accounting, donor management, fundraising, collaboration, and more. Previous efforts include Fractured Atlas (a nonprofit service organization that helps over a million artists and arts organizations with the business side of their work), Exponential Creativity Ventures (a boutique venture capital fund investing in technology that supports human creative capacity), and Gemini SBS (a software development consultancy serving nonprofit and public sector clients), among others.
Adam has a B.A. in theater from Sarah Lawrence College, an M.B.A. from New York University, and is a self-taught software developer. He is also an alumnus of Singularity University’s Executive Program and the University of California at Berkeley’s Venture Capital Executive Program. Adam was named to Crain’s New York Business’s 2016 “40 Under Forty” class and was listed by Barry’s Blog as one of the “Top 50 Most Powerful and Influential Leaders in Nonprofit Arts” for five consecutive years.
Cynthia Allman
Ms. Allman is the Executive Director of Newmark Education and the President of the NextMark Foundation. With over 20 years in the field of special education, Ms. Allman has a clear understanding of how mental health issues manifest themselves in the classroom and effectively conveys coping strategies for parents and professional educators. Ms. Allman’s passion for innovative programs stems from her time as a well-regarded motivational speaker, leading Wellness and Peak Performance seminars at Fortune 500 companies and leading educational organizations in New Jersey.
As the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Newmark School and Newmark High School, Ms. Allman’s focus is on ensuring that students succeed both academically and socially in an atmosphere that holds them accountable for their own achievement, regardless of their mental health disabilities. She been instrumental in creating and maintaining partnerships with over 65 local school districts in New Jersey to best serve their special needs students. In addition to her leadership role at Newmark, Ms. Allman was a part of the Development leadership team that was responsible for successfully launching a $12 Million Capital Campaign to build a brand-new state of the art facility to better serve students with disabilities. As current President of the Nextmark Foundation, Ms. Allman’s goal is to expand on the mission of supporting students with special needs in the education environment. As a result, she has spearheaded the Newmark Teacher Training Institute which provides critical teacher training and professional consulting services for schools in the areas of children’s mental health issues and effective behavioral management in the classroom. Most recently, Ms. Allman developed an online course that trains educators across the country to learn more about student mental health and effective strategies that work to support them.
Ms. Allman earned a BA in sociology from Seton Hall University. She was the recipient of four-year athletic scholarship for the Women’s Basketball Team and served as Team Captain. She also received the Seton Hall University’s College of Education and Human Services’ Hanbury Alumni Mission Award in 2016.