PENNSYLVANIA — Scott Constantini, associate vice president of primary care and recovery services integration for The Wright Center for Community Health, has been named to a three-year term on the Pennsylvania Mental Health Planning Council’s (MHPC) Adult Advisory Committee.

The Adult Advisory Committee is one of three MHPC committees under the direction of the deputy secretary of the state’s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. 

Constantini collaborates with hospitals, school districts, public health agencies, government entities and other community partners to expand access to and improve behavioral services across the region.

He also sits on the Lackawanna County Overdose Fatality Review Committee.

Among other roles, he oversees various federal grants to expand addiction services, such as medications for opiate use disorder, to address the opiate overdose crisis.

The MHPC consists of three committees: children’s advisory, adult advisory and older adult advisory committees. They aim to advise on a broad behavioral mandate that includes mental health, substance misuse, behavioral health disorders and cross-system disability.

For more information about The Wright Center for Community Health and The Wright Center for Community Health’s Opioid Use Disorder Center of Excellence, visit www.TheWrightCenter.org or call 570/230-0019.