Mental Health Programs

About CMHS

Anne Mathews-Younes, Ed.D.
Director
Division of Prevention, Traumatic Stress and Special Programs

Anne Mathews-Younes, Ed.D., is the Director of the Division of Prevention, Traumatic Stress and Special Programs at the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Throughout her 12 years with the Center for Mental Health Services, Dr. Mathews-Younes has worked in the Office of the Director and in each of the Center’s Divisions. As Division Director, she currently oversees the administration of programs that focus on some of the Nation’s most under served populations, including minorities, women, rural residents and refugees with mental illnesses. Dr. Mathews-Younes also is responsible for the administration of programs related to school violence and suicide prevention, child trauma, and terrorism and bioterrorism, as well as disaster mental health and disaster crisis counseling programs. She also provides oversight for programs that focus on special emerging mental health issues, such as workplace and domestic violence; the role of the faith community; the provision of culturally competent services; prevention, resilience, and recovery; and the mental health needs of refugees and torture survivors.

Before coming to Federal service, Dr. Mathews-Younes ran a number of day treatment, outpatient, and psychosocial programs in Massachusetts for adults with serious mental illnesses. In the 1980s, she spent 6 years with the District of Columbia’s Commission on Mental Health Services, working in various administrative positions. Her experience there included serving as the Chief of the Residential Placement Unit, where she was involved in removing children with serious emotional disturbances from out-of-state residential placements and returning them to the District, where they could receive services in their home community.

Dr. Mathews-Younes is a licensed psychologist and graduate of Harvard University’s doctoral program in counseling and consulting psychology. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in theological studies and is a trained occupational therapist.

7/2005