Posts Tagged ‘Team’
Q & A with Jenny Bell Martin, MS – Director of Volunteer and Career Services for OPI Living Programs
Recently, we sat down with Jenny Bell Martin, Director of Volunteer and Career Services for OPI Living programs, including the Optimum Performance Institute and specialized OPI Intensive, to discuss a few topics with her work here at OPI. Q: Jenny, how have you motivated, inspired and supported our participants? A: I feel that by sharing…
Read MoreQ & A with Amanda Allegra, MS – Director of Extracurricular Activities for the Optimum Performance Institute
In a recent interview, we sat down with our very own Amanda Allegra, Director of Extracurricular Activities for OPI Living programs including the Optimum Performance Institute and OPI Intensive, to discuss a few topics around her work with OPI. Q: Amanda, how did you develop individualized approaches for our participants within the Department of Extracurricular…
Read MoreQ & A with Heather Perrier, MS – Director of Education for the Optimum Performance Institute
Q: Heather, what have you learned from participants that have attended various OPI programs? A: I have learned that even great change IS possible. The path to get there however requires patience, practice and perseverance. Q: What strategies do you use and employ in the Department of Education at OPI? A: Our philosophy is that…
Read MoreQ & A with Jessica Breton, MA, MFT – Program Director for the Optimum Performance Institute
Q: Jessica, what have you learned from participants that have attended various OPI programs? A: I have learned that although we can all have different roadblocks in our lives, they do not need to hold us back from reaching our goals. I have seen and been inspired by OPI participants who use their courage, determination…
Read MoreOPI is Expanding
WOODLAND HILLS, CA The Optimum Performance Institute is growing in more ways than one. OPI nearly doubled its office space and we have welcomed three new members to our OPI Administrative Team. Jessica Breton, MA, and Alisa M. Shapiro, M.A., joined OPI as Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. Both are graduates of Phillips Graduate Institute.…
Read MoreOPI Has New Director of Education
WOODLAND HILLS, CA—-Tiffany Duplessis-Barmore, M.Ed., is the new Director of Education at the Optimum Performance Institute, replacing Joan Erskine. Ms. Duplessis-Barmore received her masters in education with an emphasis on psychology from Pepperdine University. She taught at Los Angeles Southwest College and St. Eugene Catholic School. Ms. Erskine remains at OPI as a one-to-one individual…
Read MoreOPI Offers Internships
WOODLAND HILLS, CA: The Optimum Performance Institute has teamed with the Addiction Studies Program Pierce College to offer internships for students who are working to be certified addiction specialists there. Under the clinical supervision of Martin Cisneros, CAC, RAS, OPI’s Director of Chemical Dependency Services, and Jeff Kestenbaum, LCSW, Director of Counseling Services, the students…
Read MoreOPI Announces New Program Director
Woodland Hills, CA – The Optimum Performance Institute is proud to announce that Katie Mikolyski is our new Program Director. Ms. Mikolyski has worked at OPI almost since its inception serving first as an Administrative Assistant and then as Director of Milieu Supervision and Staff Development. She will continue to organize special activities including teaching…
Read MoreOPI Announces New Volunteer and Career Coordinator
Woodland Hills, CA – Altesah Hatcher is the new Volunteer and Career Coordinator at OPI, helping residents volunteer at a variety of organizations in the Los Angeles area. Altesah also is organizing monthly volunteer opportunities that the entire OPI milieu participates in. Our first outing took place in November at Los Angeles’ Midnight Mission. The…
Read MoreAdditional Psychiatrist Joins OPI
The Optimum Performance Institute is pleased to announce that Janet Martin, Ph.D., M.D, has joined OPI as consulting psychiatrist. Dr. Martin graduates in June from the University of California, Irvine Medical School. She is the chief resident at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Martin holds a doctorate in neurobiology and behavior. She joins…
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