Kristi Daugherty has come a long way, from a social worker in the field to a rising star as Emergence Health Network’s CEO, and she has brought El Paso’s non-profit mental health authority a long way, too.
With a bachelor’s degree in social work from NMSU, she began her career in Alamogordo as a child protective services worker for children who were taken from their families.
It was a tough job that gave her the chance to see how undiagnosed and untreated mental illness afflicted the lives of children and their parents.
“That really drew me,” she said.
Fast forward a few years and Daugherty had a master’s in social work along with valuable experience in the private sector where success hinges on organization and the bottom line.
Coming to El Paso, she started on an MBA and a consulting job working with El Paso Mental Health Mental Retardation in 2008.
[For more of this story, written by David Crowder, go to http://www.elpasoinc.com/news/...10-b779c02af8f2.html]
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