Casey Meinster

Casey Meinster serves as the division chief of campus-based services at Hillsides. In this role, Casey provides clinical and administrative oversight to the legacy Hillsides Residential program, HillsidesCares, and the migrant children shelter program. The collective group of programs serve a wide range of children and youth ages 6 to 17 that come to Hillsides through the Department of Children and Family Services or through families’ health insurance and private pay.

Casey has dedicated her professional career to working with populations that need intensive behavioral healthcare and support. For nearly twenty years she has worked in various roles in facility-based settings including state hospitals in Northern California, juvenile treatment centers in Colorado, and residential treatment programs in San Diego, Altadena, and Pasadena. Early in her career, she made the decision to remain committed to this vulnerable population following personal life experience with losing loved ones to suicide.

Casey holds a Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliant International University, Alhambra CA and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Fort Lewis College, Durango CO. She also maintains a small private practice in South Pasadena seeing adolescents struggling with depression and anxiety.