Pittsburg, Kansas — Crawford County Mental Health Center’s (CCMHC) Governing Board has appointed Amy Glines, LSCSW, LCAC, as their new Deputy Director. Since 2009, Glines has been serving CCMHC as their Clinical Director, and as of 2022, their Project Director for the agency’s transition towards obtaining certification as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC).
Glines graduated from Pittsburg State University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology and a Business minor. During her tenure at Pittsburg State, she served as a Student Government Senator for two years and then as a Student Government President her junior year. She served the Student Foundation Board for three years and the Student Health Center Advisory Board for four years. Glines was a co-creator of the “Gorillas In Your Midst” program in 1995. Glines later obtained her Masters of Social Work degree from the University of Kansas in 1998 and now holds two licenses in the state of Kansas as a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (LSCSW) and a Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor (LCAC).
Glines began her mental health career working part time as a Mental Health Technician at the Addiction Treatment Center in Girard, Kansas, while attending Pitt State in 1994. After graduating, she worked as a case manager and psychosocial leader for adults, and later became the Program Administrator for Restorative Justice Authority where she assisted in the launching a new program for the 11th Judicial District. After moving to Garden City, Kansas, Glines served Compass Behavioral Health as the first ever children’s case manager in the Garden City region, and finished her tenure there as an inpatient therapist while she obtained her LSCSW licensure in 2001.
Before returning to CCMHC as an adult therapist in 2001, Glines developed specialty skills in adventure-based treatment after spending weeks with youth in Colorado while camping and contract work for DCCCA treating convicted sex offenders in the community. She continued this specialty work with CCMHC as a co-facilitator of a sex offender program.
In 2004, Glines was promoted and tasked with the development of a Utilization Review process for CCMHC, and later split those tasks with clinical work until 2009, when she was appointed as Clinical Director. In 2019, she was selected by the Kansas Specialty Dog Service to match with a certified facility dog named Sawyer, who joined the agency for animal assisted therapy and staff enrichment.
On November 1, 2022, Heather Spaur became Crawford County Mental Health Center’s new Executive Director and shortly after appointed Glines as the CCBHC Project Director when Spaur vacated the position. Under a calendar year later, Glines was appointed as Deputy Director by the Governing Board on October 5, 2023, after her accomplishments as CCBHC Project Director.
“I am honored to serve our community and CCMHC through our first year as a provisionally certified CCBHC. Year one will be a year to concentrate on administrative support for all of our clinical programs and a focus on quality measures internally and externally for the State of Kansas and our Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant,” stated Glines. She continued saying, “I am extremely proud of our staff thriving in an environment of rapid change to fulfil requirements of a CCBHC within one year. We have added or modified more programs this past year than all twenty-two years combined that I have worked at CCMHC.”
Crawford County Mental Health Center has been serving the mental health needs of Crawford County since 1961, offering adult, children, crisis, and substance use services. For more information, please call 620-231-5130 or visit www.crawfordmentalhealth.org.