Contributor

Jay Boll, LMSW

VP Laurel House, Inc., Editor in Chief www.rtor.org.

Jay Boll, LMSW, is the Vice President of Laurel House, Inc., and Editor in Chief of www.rtor.org, a gateway website that helps families find resources and support for their loved ones with mental health conditions. In over 25 years with Laurel House Jay has worked with hundreds of people living with serious mental health conditions and run multiple programs in psychiatric rehabilitation, including the Thinking Well program, which he adapted from the Neuropsychological Educational Approach to Cognitive Remediation (NEAR). This innovative program helps people regain and improve cognitive skills impaired by schizophrenia and other serious mental health disorders. As Editor in Chief of www.rtor.org Jay is passionate in his mission to identify the best practices and providers in recovery-oriented mental health care. Jay writes about his own family’s experience of mental health and mental illness in his blog The Family Side and on other mental health websites. Jay is a former Peace Corps Volunteer with five years of service developing housing, vocational training, and education programs for homeless youth in the Central American nation of Honduras. He has also lived and worked in Zimbabwe, Africa. Jay invites you to connect with him on Twitter @JayWBoll and to visit his website www.rtor.org.