Virginia Selleck, Ph.D.

Virginia Selleck, Ph.D., has worked in psychiatric rehabilitation for over 40 years and has experience in recovery systems reform, program development and implementation, funding issues, legislation, and policy. She has held leadership positions in state government in Minnesota and Missouri, and with community mental health providers in rural Illinois, urban Chicago, and St. Louis. She has extensive speaking, training, and consulting experience in a number of states about issues germane to psychiatric rehabilitation — employment in particular — and systems change. Dr. Selleck has provided consultation and subject matter expertise to states under the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Programs, and serves as a practice coach for the Missouri Coalition for Behavioral Healthcare, working with Community Mental Health Center’s Health Care Homes and the Missouri Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers. Her consulting work with TAC includes supporting the integration of supported employment services for the State of Washington under its Medicaid 1115 Demonstration Waiver, and for the State of Louisiana on a U.S. Department of Justice settlement agreement target population with serious mental illness.