Lorrin Gehring Email & Phone Number

Olympia, WA, US

• Awarded contracts with state, federal, and local governmental agencies, tribes, private and non-profit organizations to provide engaging and experiential keynotes, trainings, and technical assistance.
• Conference Planner for Peers Empower Peers and for Washington State’s Peer Pathways Workforce Development Conference for Certified Peer Counselors.
• Designed coaching and workforce development trainings and supportive materials for supervisors and peer counselor staff.
• Led efforts with a community agency to integrate youth peers into their practice model and tripled their peer staff through innovative recruiting strategies.
• Washington State Peer Certification Trainer
• Adaptive Leadership Trainer and Coach

Olympia, Washington

• Executive leadership team member and responsible for daily operations and supervision of YouthSound staff and contractors across the state.
• Successfully managed multiple contracts, ensuring all deliverables were met.
• Lead Trainer for the Youth and Family Certified Peer Counselor training, and one state funded Leadership training for young professionals.
• Provided technical assistance (TA) to regional behavioral health organizations and agencies on peer workforce development and recruitment.
• Oversaw the development of an Adaptive Leadership training funded by and developed in partnership with the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery and other key stakeholders.
• Adapted the leadership curriculum for youth advocates and justice involved youth.

Olympia, WA

• Led statewide efforts to engage transition age youth in leadership and system transformation opportunities across youth-serving systems.
• Advocated for and promoted equitable access to services and supports for youth across youth-serving systems at the state and local level.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders to organize culturally relevant focus groups, campaigns, and communication channels.
• Successfully advocated for the youth peer role to be a required role on treatment teams across Washington, leading to the development of hundreds of positions for certified peer counselors working with youth.
• Lead trainer and content expert regarding youth voice and the role of Certified Peer Counselors within the Wraparound with Intensive Services (WISe) practice model.

Orem, UT

• Worked part-time in addition to workforce development consultant work.
• Utilized both applied behavioral analysis and floor-time intervention methods to teach children between the ages of 3-5 with autism, behavioral modification skills.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Advocated and promoted equity and inclusion practices for service delivery and policy implementation.
• Utilized motivational interviewing techniques to partner with young adults experiencing homelessness in exploring educational and career pathways and in developing S.M.A.R.T. goals.
• Developed and implemented weekly groups with and for participants utilizing motivational interviewing techniques.

• Implemented the first-ever youth track at the NFFCMH’s annual conference and doubled the conference budget after the first year.
• Provided and developed coaching and culturally relevant trainings for Systems of Care grantee sites across the country and in US territories.
• Supervised conference staff and organized planning committees and stakeholder groups.
• Led national efforts to develop leadership, support, and educational groups for young people.
• Directed campaigns and outreach efforts aimed at youth, young adults, and youth-serving systems for the Caring for Every Child’s Mental Health Campaign.
• Led collaboration with key federal and national stakeholders to implement social marketing and spokesperson trainings for youth and youth peer staff.

• Effectively managed time on multiple subcontracts providing technical assistance to governmental and organizational entities on positive youth development, innovative engagement strategies, and sustainability.
• Created social marketing campaigns aimed at recruiting and engaging underserved youth in system transformation efforts.
• Provided community-based peer support and led peer recovery groups.