Susan Sommers

Jonathan Gross

President

Jonathan has over thirty years experience in sales, marketing, and business development. He was a partner and founding member of Mammoth Heli-Ski, a back country helicopter ski company. Jonathan was a fire crew boss and wilderness ranger for the US Forest Service stationed outside of Yosemite. He was the snow ranger at Mammoth Mountain and worked as a horse packer and supervisor at the Frontier Pack Station in June Lake California. He has owned and operated two businesses in the field of deconstruction and reclamation of recycled building materials, has appeared twice on American Builder and was responsible for the sale of antique brick and timbers from over three million square feet of commercial deconstruction. He has managed a national sales network and given seminars on sales management and sales motivation. He is a past member of the National Demolition Association and the Building Materials Reuse Association. Northeastern University, 1967-1970. Jonathan Gross, Owner and Managing Member of Ruby Lake Glass, LLC, sits on the High Friction Surfaces Council of the American Traffic Safety Services Association. Jonathan won Innovative Recycler of the Year for his company in 2016. He is Chairman of the Greene County Board of Ethics. He is President of the Board of the Mountain Top Cares Coalition, Inc. He sat on the Board of the Glory House, a Not for Profit organization serving woman suffering from domestic abuse. Jonathan is a supervisor at the Adaptive Sports Foundation in Windham, NY.

Scott Tyree

Vice President, Secretary

Scott Tyree is a resident of Prattsville, New York and has been a member of the Mountain Top Cares Coalition since April of 2019. Scott is a person in long term recovery and is a Certified Recovery Peer Advocate and works full time at Huntersfield Christian Training Center as the Program Coordinator of their Men's Recovery Program. He is married to Jana and they have 3 boys Rowan (Age 12), Liam (10) and Colin (8).

Kai Hillman

Youth Services

Kai Hillmann, director of Youth Clubhouses for the Mental Health Association of Columbia-Greene Counties

Margaret (Maggie) Graham

Agency Liaison

I retired from my position as Director of Community Services and Director of Mental Health for Greene Co at end of December 2018. I had the honor of holding that position for 8 plus years. This position afforded me the opportunity to advocate for services for our most vulnerable populations in the areas of Mental Health, Substance Use Disorders and Developmental Disabilities. During this time I with my counterpart in Columbia County were successful in obtaining funding from Office of Mental Health to develop and staff a Mobile Crisis Assessment Team that would serve both counties, which proved to be very successful in preventing and diverting unnecessary hospitalizations. During this time I had the pleasure of helping in the formation of the Columbia-Greene Controlled Substance Task Force which worked with stakeholders on all levels to combat the opioid epidemic. I came to Greene Co Mental Health in 2003 and worked as Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner serving Adolescents and Adults providing Psychiatric Evaluations and Medication Management to adolescents and adults. I continued to provide medication services to a small caseload even while serving as Director of Community Services. During that time I worked with countless adults who had co-occurring disorders in the area of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders. I have lived in Greene Co since September 1987 although I was born and raised in Ireland. I completed a diploma school nursing program in England in 1980 and had the opportunity to advance my education at Russell Sage in Troy with a Bachelors and Master’s Degree in Nursing. I have always been drawn to area of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders having worked inpatient, outpatient, crisis services, day treatment for adults and adolescents. Prior to my retirement I was awarded the Greene County Chairman’s Legislative Award for Community Service in June 2018, the Columbia-Greene Community College President’s Award for Community Leadership in 2017 and Woman of Distinction honoree by George A Amedore, Jr in 2019. I have a very simple way by which I try to live my life which is do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I’m the mother of 3 sons, have 3 wonderful daughter-in laws and 2 adorable grandchildren.