Community Alliance
Elena Pepitone is a dedicated professional with experience in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion as the SOAR benefits specialist at Community Alliance since July 2022. Previously, Elena served as the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Chair for Kappa Kappa Gamma from August 2019 to September 2022, focusing on enhancing inclusive recruitment practices and fostering a diverse chapter environment. In addition, Elena contributed to the Asian Community & Cultural Center in 2021 by creating informative materials on Medicare and Medicaid, advocating for COVID-19 vaccinations, and leading discussions on public health. Elena holds a Bachelor of Arts in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, completed in 2022.
Community Alliance
At Community Alliance, our sole focus is, and always has been on adults with mental illness. Since 1981, this fact has separated us from more traditional social service agencies and treatment centers in the Omaha area. We are an organization of over 250 dedicated, concerned professionals and volunteers who believe in the potential of recovery for all individuals with a mental illness and we dedicate all our resources to support the journey of each individual we serve. We work to provide programs and opportunities to encourage individuals to develop the strengths and skills to deal with their mental illness or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder. Additionally, we serve as an advocate with doctors, social service networks, and throughout the community. We go outside the walls of the hospital and our own facilities to support people in their own neighborhoods and communities, where the strengths and confidences we have helped them develop can be put into practice. We advocate with government and others for greater access to the life-restoring services and needed policy changes that can ease the journey being traveled by so many individuals with mental illness and their families. And we work to help erase the stigma and myths that still surround mental illness and which still serve as roadblocks along the road to recovery.