Paul Poplawski

Dr. Poplawski has a 44 year distinguished career of service within public mental health and substance abuse programs. He is a seasoned leader and advocate who has engaged in a variety of governmental executive roles in the strategic planning, financing and startup of clinical and recovery programs. In the last 10 years, he has been sought to facilitate organizational and programmatic transformation in moving "traditional" approaches to mental health and substance abuse treatment, toward the full inclusion of recovery/resilience-oriented philosophies, principles and practices. His work in Delaware, Montgomery County, Philadelphia, Texas, Minnesota and other jurisdictions has been instrumental in redefining the nature and structures of programs and practices. He is one of the original authors and architects of the nationally acclaimed system transformation in Philadelphia working with Dr. Arthur Evans, assisting him in crafting the Practice Guidelines for Recovery and Resilience Oriented Treatment, considered a groundbreaking treatise in the field.