Justice Resource Institute’s mission is to provide hope and opportunity to children and adults whose physical, emotional or learning related disability requires innovative and specialized support and treatment. It is one of the largest and most programmatically diverse human services agencies in Massachusetts and serves individuals across the Northeast at programs in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.

Leadership

• President: Andrew Pond, LICSW
• Executive Vice President: Gregory Canfield, MSW
• Chief Financial Officer: Deborah Reuman, MBA
• Vice President: Stephanie Ward
• Vice President: Rick LieBerman
• Vice President: Mia DeMarco
• Senior Vice President for Community, Health, and Public Policy: Douglas M. Brooks, MSW
• Vice President of Developmental Disability Services: Robert Richards, LICSW
• Vice President of Behavioral Health and Trauma Services: Joseph Spinazzola, PhD
• Trauma Center Medical Director and Vice President of Research: Bessel van der Kolk
  Bessel van der Kolk
  Bessel van der Kolk has conducted research in the area of post-traumatic stress since the 1970s. His work focuses on the interaction of attachment, neurobiology, and developmental aspects of trauma’s effects on people. He has written the definitive work in the field of psychological trauma,...
  
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• Medical Director: Anthony B. Joseph, MD
• Director of Program Services: John Lynch, MS
• Director of Clinical Quality Management: Catherine A. McDermott, PhD
• General Counsel and Executive Director of Human Resources: Mark Schueppert
• Executive Advisor: Stephen H. Webster, MBA

Community services

JRI has been involved in providing the following services:

• HIV
  HIV
  Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
  
   case management
• Outreach services to homeless youth
  Homelessness
  Homelessness describes the condition of people without a regular dwelling. People who are homeless are unable or unwilling to acquire and maintain regular, safe, and adequate housing, or lack "fixed, regular, and adequate night-time residence." The legal definition of "homeless" varies from country...