MHARS Welcomes New ISP Director

The MHARS Board of Lorain County welcomes Brooke Sherman, who started February 28 as our Intersystem Program Director.

Sherman has worked in the mental health field for more than 20 years, working at Personal and Family Counseling Services of Tuscarawas County in New Philadelphia, Ohio as an Intensive Home Based Counselor in her early career. Most recently, she worked at The Nord Center as its Crisis Services Director.

Sherman obtained her BA in Psychology at Mount Vernon Nazarene College in Mount Vernon, Ohio as well as her MA in Education and Community Counseling at Malone College in Canton, Ohio. She also obtained herLPCC-S from the State of OhioCounselor, Social Work, and Marriage and Family Therapist Board in 2003. Welcome, Brooke!

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Arielle Edwards

Arielle Edwards is the MHARS Board of Lorain County’s Program Officer, working with the Adult Services Director.  

Arielle has worked passionately in the mental health field for more than 10 years. Before joining the MHARS Board of Lorain County in 2019, she worked at the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court as a Probation Officer in The McDonnell Center Community Based Correctional Facility, where she served as a liaison between the facility, the Court and Probation Department. Earlier in her career, Arielle worked at Recovery Resources in Cleveland first as its EMPOWER Program Coordinator facilitating programming for incarcerated women with PTSD in a therapeutic milieu and then as a forensic liaison, in which she assisted those struggling with mental illness and substance use disorder charged in one of Cuyahoga County’s municipal courts and within the Common Pleas Court. Arielle holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology for Ohio University where she became a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.  She also earned her Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology from Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.  

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