Our Agency
Mid Shore Behavioral Health, Inc. (MSBH) is a private, 501(c)(3) registered non-profit and serving as a regional CSA for Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot Counties, making MSBH the largest regional CSA in the state. Our primary responsibility is for community planning, management, and monitoring of publicly funded medically necessary mental health services in the five-county region for consumers across the life span: children, adolescents, adults, and the aging population.
Our Agency
Mid Shore Behavioral Health, Inc. (MSBH) is a private, 501(c)(3) registered non-profit and serving as a regional CSA for Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot Counties, making MSBH the largest regional CSA in the state. Our primary responsibility is for community planning, management, and monitoring of publicly funded medically necessary mental health services in the five-county region for consumers across the life span: children, adolescents, adults, and the aging population
WHAT IS A
Core Service Agency?
A Core Service Agency (CSA) is a state-funded agency, as part of local health departments, local county governments, or non-profit organizations, that operates under contract with the State of Maryland’s Behavioral Health Administration (BHA), a division of the Maryland Department of Health (MDH). Core Service Agencies, Local Addictions Authorities, and Local Behavioral Health Authorities are mandated to comply with the Annotated Code of Maryland Health General Article 10-1201 through 1203. Mid Shore Behavioral Health can help you find available mental health services near you and refer you to behavioral health options. From adult mental health and addiction services to youth and adolescent treatment options, Mid Shore Behavioral Health is here to help refer and find behavioral health resources, services, and programs that work for you.
Mid Shore Behavioral Health, Inc. (MSBH) is a private, 501(c)(3) registered non-profit and serving as a regional CSA for Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot Counties, making MSBH the largest regional CSA in the state. Our primary responsibility is for community planning, management, and monitoring of publicly funded medically necessary mental health services in the five-county region for consumers across the life span: children, adolescents, adults, and the aging population.
OUR MISSION
Mid Shore Behavioral Health, Inc.’s mission is to continually improve the provision of behavioral health services for residents of Caroline, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne’s, and Talbot Counties through effective coordination of care in collaboration with consumers, their natural support systems, providers, and the community at large.
OUR VISION
A rural behavioral healthcare delivery system that is clinically and culturally competent. This system will ensure access, have a community focus, be cost-effective, and be integrated to serve the community as a whole.
What we do
Mid Shore Behavioral Health is dedicated to enhancing the regional behavioral health system of care through effective collaboration with consumers, their natural supports, providers, and community leaders. Our goal is to develop a full array of accessible services and resources for the consumer through partnerships with our providers and other agencies. We offer guidance in understanding and navigating all that is available in our community.
Beyond our primary responsibility for local publicly funded mental health services, MSBH understands that behavioral health is essential to overall health, and many domains of life contribute to one’s behavioral health, especially having a home, purpose, and community connection. As such, MSBH seeks to address the needs of the whole person and collaborates to improve the systems of care of the whole community throughout the region.
The most important core value of our organization is hope: The belief that resiliency and recovery are real provides the essential and motivating message of a better future – that people and communities can, and do, overcome the internal and external challenges, barriers, and obstacles that confront them in order to achieve wellness.
GET TO KNOW
Our Dedicated TEAM
For general inquiries, please call 410-770-4801. All staff can be reached via email by combining first initial and last name@midshorebehavioralhealth.org or by clicking on send mail link below. Visit our employment page for available positions.
Deborah Becker
Finance Coordinator
Caroline Kimbles
Accounting Specialist
VACANT
Administrative Coordinator
Nina Ovian
Marketing & Events Coordinator
Brigitte Kealy
BH Coordinator Manager
J Howard-Myers
BS, EIL
BH Coordinator | Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Shannon Joyce
MPH, CHES
BH Coordinator | PASRR & Aging
Audra Cherbonnier
LMSW
BH Coordinator | Children & Adolescent Supervisor
Jazzmine Davis
LMSW
Continuum of Care Manager
Ashley Kessinger
Continuum of Care Support Specialist
Bernie Vervin
Continuum of Care Specialist
Alisha Saulsbury
LCSW-C
Forensic Mental Health Program Manager
Mary Becraft
Forensic Mental Health Case Specialist
Jackie Salb
Harm Reduction Coordinator
Yvette Hynson
MS, CIRS
Certified SOAR Case Specialist | Aging & Disability
Gregory Gibson
Residential Rehabilitation Program | Workforce Development
