Victoria Azzopardi New CEO of Ocean Partnership for Kids

TOMS RIVER, N.J. – Jan. 25, 2024 – PRLog — The Board of Trustees is happy to announce the appointment of Victoria Azzopardi, LCSW as the brand new Chief Government Officer (CEO) of Ocean Partnership for Kids (OPC), efficient March 1st, 2024.  She might be taking up for the present Government Director Mary Jo Buchanan, who’s retiring as of March thirty first, 2024.

Victoria is a mission pushed skilled, who has been with OPC because the Director of Scientific Operations since 2006.  She has intensive expertise within the NJ Kids’s System of Care, in addition to expertise in care administration, intensive in-home remedy, and because the Residential Group Chief with Worth Choices (at the moment PeformCare).  She additionally has served as college liaison for college students and supervisors with Adelphi College and as a Discipline Placement Supervisor.  She has overseen the unimaginable development of Ocean’s Care Administration Group (CMO), led the Care Administration Division in reaching CARF accreditation, and efficiently led Ocean Partnership by way of the unification course of with Youth Case Administration Companies.

Victoria has her Masters of Direct Scientific Follow in Social Work and her Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from Rutgers College.  She is a NJ Licensed Scientific Social Employee, has her Scientific Supervision Certification, and is a Nurtured Coronary heart Licensed Coach.  Victoria can also be very energetic within the Ocean County group, serving on the County’s Overdose Fatality Assessment Committee, Kids in Courtroom, the Juvenile Justice Detention Various Committee, in addition to many different County and state-wide associations.

“I’m completely thrilled and deeply honored to step into the function of CEO at OPC—an company that holds a particular place in my coronary heart, and whose mission resonates with my core values,” Azzopardi stated. ” I eagerly anticipate this extraordinary alternative to collaborate with our devoted employees, interact with our esteemed Board, and strengthen our partnerships throughout the group.

“Collectively, we’ll proceed to serve the 1,100 youth and their households in Ocean County who want our assist probably the most. I’m genuinely excited concerning the journey forward and the constructive impression we will create collectively.”

For extra details about Ocean Partnership for Kids, please go to www.oceanpartnership.org.

About Ocean Partnership for Kids Inc.
Based in 2005, Ocean Partnership for Kids (OPC) is Ocean County’s Care Administration Group (CMO). Its mission is to reinforce the nicely being of youth and their households by way of pure and group helps. OPC offers care coordination providers for Ocean County youth up the age of 21 years who’ve psychological well being, substance use, mental and developmental challenges. OPC strives to maintain kids and adolescents at residence, at school, and locally by connecting them to assets that meet their distinctive wants and assist them obtain their objectives.

OPC is a non-profit group obtainable without charge to all youth and households in Ocean County who meet the eligibility standards of the New Jersey Kids’s System of care. To be taught extra, go to https://www.oceanpartnership.org or www.oceanresourcenet.org.