Jordan is a pediatric nurse practitioner and program director for the school-based health center at Chelsea High School, a satellite clinic of Massachusetts General Hospital, where she provides primary care for the students.

Jordan began her career as a middle and high school teacher, first at The American School in Switzerland, and then at the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. Starting in the language department as a French and Spanish teacher, she quickly discovered that she loved working with the students outside the classroom. While teaching, she earned a Master’s Degree in Education with a specialty in Counseling and Guidance from California Lutheran University, and transitioned to a position as the Assistant Dean of the senior class. She also developed and taught the 10th grade Human Development program, and created and ran a Peer Support program.

When she realized that her next step should be to combine her love of health education and counseling with a more clinical aspect, Jordan pursued a Master’s Degree in Nursing from Yale University and became a certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. She believed that school-based health offered her the perfect opportunity to work with adolescents at the intersection of education and health care, aiming to reduce disparities and promote success by ensuring easy access to health services in a safe and trusted environment. She had found her passion. She stayed in New Haven to run a school-based health center there for 2 years before transitioning to Chelsea in 2000, where she has been ever since. Jordan loves working in and with the Chelsea community, where she is continually learning about courage and resilience and the strength of the human spirit.

Jordan is a strong advocate for school-based health care, serving as the Vice President of the MASBHA, and is an active volunteer for Williams College, previously serving as the President of the Williams College Society of Alumni.

Caitlin Thorn, MA is a Quality Improvement Advisor at Upstream Massachusetts. In this role, she consults with health centers, providing in-depth technical assistance and quality improvement to support same-day access to all methods of contraceptive care. Caitlin began her career in School-Based Health in New York City at the Institute for Family Health (IFH), where she was formerly the Director of School-Based Health and Adolescent Medicine. In that role, Caitlin oversaw a SBHC program of five locations around Manhattan serving ten public schools including elementary, middle and high schools. She spent much of her time working to grow and expand SBHCs while in New York both in her organization, opening new SBHC locations, and in the SBHC field, serving as a Board Member of the New York School-Based Health Alliance. Most recently, Caitlin served as the Director of the Boston Public Health Commission’s School-Based Health Program. In this role she oversees six School-Based Health Centers serving eight public high schools in Boston providing medical and mental health care. Caitlin is dedicated to health care access work in Massachusetts, and sits as a board member of the Jane Fund of Central Massachusetts, which exclusively raises money to provide micro-grants to women who are unable to afford the cost of their healthcare.

Emily Wilcox is a pediatric nurse practitioner working for the Boston Public Health Commission. She is the medical provider at the Boston Latin Academy school-based health center. Emily has been working in school health since 2007. She loves working with teens and completed a Leadership Education in Adolescent Health fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2008.

Lisa Riccio Howe is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Manager of the school- based health center at Greater Lawrence Technical School which is a satellite of Greater Lawrence Family Health Center. She began her NP career in 1988 at one of the first SBHCs in Massachusetts at Somerville High School. While there she learned the joy of earning trust to build therapeutic relationships with young people.

Witnessing and promoting the resilience of adolescents has been such an honor. She spent the next stage of her career as faculty in the NP program at University of Massachusetts Lowell and the Family Practice Residency at Beverly Hospital while practicing primary care in that community. During those years she was continually drawn to adolescent health. She was happy to return to school-based health in 2006 to help open a new SBHC at Everett High School, but was most excited to join GLFHC in 2010 to manage one of their SBHCs in the city where she was born and raised. At GLFHC she enjoys providing full scope primary care and teaching. She precepts interns/residents on adolescent rotations, lectures on various health topics such as confidentiality and teaches in all Freshman health classes. She has been appointed to GLFHC’s Board of Directors: Patient and Clinical Quality Committee.

She published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, and presented at conferences on topics such as teen dating violence and teen pregnancy prevention. She lives on the North Shore where she enjoys walking the beach and sunsets.

Maureen is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner is currently

working at Codman Square Health Center X Clinic, providing

sti treatment and counseling, and PrEP therapy. She is also

the Quality Assurance Coordinator at Boston ABCD Family

Planning Partnership.Program.

After graduating from New England Baptist Hospital School

of Nursing at age 20, she began her career as a Maternal

Child Nurse at Boston City Hospital caring for high risk

obstetrical patients and developed an interest adolescent

pregnancy and infectious disease prevention. Realizing how

much she loved caring for the prenatal patient, she began a

new career at Whittier Street HC as the RN Manager in the

OB/GYN department. It was there she was given an

opportunity to attend the PPFA OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner

Program, University of Pennsylvania. Within two weeks of

saying yes, she was traveling between Philadelphia and

Boston.

Her NP career finally took off at HVMA/Kenmore (formerly

HCHP) specializing in infertility, high risk OB, and adolescent

pregnancy.

Before retiring in 2017, Maureen worked at the Boston

Public Health Commission since 1998 in SBHC Program as

a nurse practitioner in several of the school based health

centers and later as the Director of Clinical Services for the

six clinical sites located in eight high schools.

Her special interests include public health, HPV and STI

prevention, adolescent health, and giving presentations to

the community, that educate parents and teens on sexual

health and healthy relationships. Maureen loves spending

time with her 3 grandchildren, traveling, and has a passion

for rafting and photography.

David is the Assistant Behavioral Health Director and School-Based Behavioral Health Lead at Hilltown Community Health Center (HCHC). HCHC is a Federally Qualified Health Center nestled in the rural foothills, “hilltowns”, of the Berkshire Mountains. He is also an adjunct faculty at Westfield State University in their Masters of Social Work program where he received his MSW in 2018.

David began working with children when he was 16 as a Lifeguard and Swim Teacher at his local YMCA. He continued his enjoyment of experiential learning by working as a camp counselor, snowboard instructor, and camp director. After finishing a BA in Psychology he worked as a Camp Director at YMCA Camp Hi-Rock in the Berkshires for four years before leaving to continue his educational career.

David entered the MSW program at Westfield State University (WSU) with the hopes of honing his skills for individual work with children. While there he was accepted into the Interdisciplinary Behavioral Health Collaboration (IBHC) Fellowship. Through this fellowship, David learned more about Integrated Health Care and was introduced to the concept of School-Based Health Centers. This was a transformative moment in his education and he decided then that he would work in school-based health care.

Shortly after finishing his MSW and getting his initial license, David began working at Hilltown Community Health Center where he focused on school-based health, health equity, and transgender youth health. He also has clinical interests in healthcare workers' vicarious trauma and preventing burnout. Simultaneously, he continued to work with WSU conducting research on the experience of MSW students in integrated field placements with the intention of improving the educational experience of MSW students in those settings.

When David is not at work he is in the woods, the garden, or on the slopes where he still teaches snowboarding on the weekends. His wife Samantha also works in the mental health field and they love attending live music whenever they can. They welcomed their first child Dorothy into the world this past November 2022.