Regan Kelly, MSW

With over 40 years of experience as a mission driven leader in the behavioral health and social service industries, Regan Kelly is committed to improving services to families and individuals of all ages. Having served her entire career in the greater Philadelphia region, she has been deeply involved in local systems transformation initiatives in fields of child welfare, mental health and recovery services. Prior to NET, Regan held operational and systems development roles at several behavioral health organizations in Pennsylvania, including serving as Philadelphia’s first coordinator of the Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP), a systems change initiative funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH); served as the Director of the Living In Family Environments (LIFE) program in Philadelphia, a state funded demonstration program designed to develop community alternatives to institutional care for youth; worked on the initial team at the Behavioral Health Training and Education Network, which functioned as an extension of Community Behavioral Health (CBH) when CBH was launched in Philadelphia; and served as a Committee Co-Chair for the Mayors Blue Ribbon Commission (2007). Under her leadership as a Vice President, NET was selected by the Department of Human Services to implement a child welfare transformation initiative designed to improve outcomes for children and played a lead role in implementing the city’s first Community Umbrella Agency (CUA).

Since assuming the role of CEO in 2013 , Regan has led NET to become the only Certified Community Behavioral Heath Center (CCBHC) in Philadelphia, a model designed to integrate mental health, addictions, and physical health care services, and expanded the continuum of addictions services to include several new resources to serve individuals with an opiate use disorder. She brings extensive knowledge of quality assurance practices, performance-based contracting, and managed care financial models with expertise in organizational and strategic planning, policy development, implementation of internal and external systems controls, as well as fiscal and program management that is results-oriented and mission-driven. Regan received her Master’s in Social Work from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from DeSales University.