Built from experience.
Grounded in dignity.

Scott’s clinical practice draws on Motivational Interviewing, CBT, DBT, IFS, relapse prevention, trauma-informed care, Thinking for a Change, Moral Reconation Therapy, and Recovery Oriented Systems of Care principles. He has worked with justice-involved people, post-overdose engagement teams, and individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders.

He has provided group and individual services in detoxification units, residential facilities, and community-based intensive outpatient programs. With Penny, he co-founded and facilitated the STAR diversion program in partnership with Findlay Municipal Court.

HRF’s biography documents his service on the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board Treatment Committee, collaboration with ADAMHS Boards and opioid task forces, and service on nonprofit boards, including Focus Recovery and Wellness Community.

He has presented on recovery, stigma reduction, and workforce development at the University of Findlay, the University of Bluffton, the University of Toledo, and Ohio Northern University, and provided testimony to Ohio’s Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review about workforce shortages and access to care.

His wider work includes the Beach Safety Hierarchy Assessment Scale, research on relational safety, and the book Lead With Safety. At Waypoint, his clinical and lived experience inform a practical commitment to reducing barriers and strengthening harm reduction access.

Penny spent many years as a jail-based case manager, helping people connect to care and navigate re-entry. Her work reaches people who have often been overlooked or repeatedly excluded from support.

She built three peer centers from the ground up, authored their policies, procedures, rules, and training manuals, and managed all three at the same time. Her leadership emphasized consistent, ethical, trauma-informed peer practice.

Her facilitation experience includes the Matrix Model, Living in Balance, SMART Recovery, and groups focused on art, yoga, life skills, and active recovery.

With Scott and Findlay Municipal Court, she co-developed Survivors Talking About Recovery (STAR). She recruited and coordinated guest speakers whose lived experiences helped bring a human perspective to court-ordered programming.

Across these roles, Penny has provided direct peer support to hundreds of people affected by substance use disorder. Her work combines lived experience, person-centered support, and persistence with people who have faced repeated incarceration and exclusion.

Waypoint carries that commitment into harm reduction: showing up, respecting people’s choices, and making safety and support easier to reach.