Bruce C. Nisbet, LMSW, DFNAP

Bruce C. Nisbet, LMSW, DFNAP is President and CEO of Spectrum Human Services, a large not-for-profit community mental health agency with diverse treatment, crisis intervention and recovery-oriented programs serving Western New York. In addition, he is President of Health Home Partners of WNY, LLC, a joint venture of Spectrum, the Catholic Health System, and Evergreen Health which together provide intensive State designated Health Home care coordination services to high need, high cost Medicaid recipients in three counties. Prior to Spectrum Nisbet brings thirty years of experience developing, implementing and administering treatment programs for children, adolescents and their families. In 2013 the members of the National Academies of Practice, an organization chartered by Congress and whose members advise Congress on national health care policy, elected Nisbet a member and Distinguished Fellow of the Academies. He is a board member of New York Council for Community Behavioral Health Care as well as founder and Past President of the New York State Coalition of 853 Schools. He sits on the editorial boards of Best Practices in Mental Health and the Journal of Evidence- Based Social Work, and his scholarly interests and publications include the effects of organizational culture and climate on the adoption of evidence-based interventions as well as care coordination strategies facilitating an individual’s mental health recovery goals.