When you toss a pebble into a pond,
at the point of contact you cause a change;

a change that ripples out in all directions.
And these waves of change are felt
by whatever else they happen to touch. 
This simple image symbolizes both
the vision and responsibility of who we are. 
 

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About Our Staff: Management Team
 
The ChangePoint professional and administrative staffs are highly trained and provide clients and referral sources with a caring and respectful environment and access to the latest treatment methodologies. Presently, ChangePoint has 53 counselors and administrative employees working at six different locations throughout the Portland metropolitan and Vancouver, WA areas.

Richard Drandoff MA, LPC
Executive Director, Co-founder
rdrandoff@changepointinc.com

Richard Drandoff, age 60, is the co-founder and Executive Director of ChangePoint, Inc. Richard has been in the addictions treatment field since 1970. He is a founding board member of the Oregon Gambling Addiction Treatment Foundation, a member of NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network Steering Committee, the past co-chair of the CTN Dissemination Subcommittee, and the current Board Chair of the Northwest Institute of Addictions Studies. Mr. Drandoff has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon and has presented workshops at various local, regional and national conferences over the past 25 years. Richard is married and has two children, Lilo and Simon.
Linda Bradshaw, M.A.
Program Manager for Multnomah County and Clark County
lbradshaw@changepointinc.com

Linda has worked in the A/D treatment and prevention field for 30 years. In agencies when Ms. Bradshaw was employed, over 65% of the clients were offenders. Ms. Bradshaw has provided clinical and administrative supervision to the counselors who served these clients for more than seventeen years. She was also the clinical supervisor for a year of an outpatient A/D unit whose clients were adolescents and their concerned family members.


Later, she was instrumental in designing an intensive outpatient program specifically for adolescents, which now has almost a decade of service provision. She was in charge of the JACHO and CARF accreditation process for her previous employer, and successfully accomplished these tasks. She has worked in both outpatient and residential treatment settings and has many years’ experience working with dui offenders. She is experienced in process management and process improvement strategies and has contributed a great deal to ChangePoint management team since joining three years ago. She holds a Certified Chemical Dependency certification and a Master’s in counseling. She is now pursing her Master Addiction Counselor certification through NADAC.
Michael Davis, AA, BFA, MDiv, CADC II
Program Manager for Washington County
mdavis@changepointinc.com

Michael’s experience includes 15 years working with A&D offenders (DUII, PCS, DCS) with associated property and person-to-person crimes (group facilitation, instruction, intervention, assessment, case management). He has eight years of experience working with DV offenders and has worked with post-prison youth released from Tillamook Boot Camp. Michael does intensive coordination with probation and parole officers and their supervisors and has extensive involvement with county and state organizations regarding DV offenders. Michael has been a Program Manager for ChangePoint for two years, after being the DV Program Supervisor for the previous 4 years. He directly supervises 14 counselors, is part of management team and has a large involvement in outreach.
Cindy Ostlund
Accounting and HR Manager
costlund@changepointinc.com

Cindy Ostlund started her career with Montgomery Ward in 1973 in the Sales Audit department. In 1983, she started in the accounting office at Janus Youth Programs, a local non-profit for youth. In 1999 Cindy moved over to Arras Inc, a service organization that was created by Janus Youth Programs and 2 other local non-profits to perform administrative and accounting functions for all three agencies. In 2005, Cindy joined ChangePoint as HR/Accounting Manager.

Cindy is single and lives with her 2 dogs and 1 cat. She is ChangePoint official picnic and games organizer!
Kevin May, B.S. Accounting
Billing Manager and IT Project Manager
kmay@changepointint.com

Kevin has worked in the finance office of ChangePoint for 7 years.  Kevin grew up on the Oregon Coast before attending Portland State University.  Prior to working at ChangePoint, he was a Tax Preparer for H&R Block in Central Oregon.  He is responsible for maintaining ChangePoint’s client database and oversees the IT, insurance billing and collections departments.  His hobbies include tennis, working on computers and occasionally getting pelted with paintballs. 

Batzaba and Maritza Piedrasanta
Maritza Piedrasanta
Office Manager
mpiedrasanta@changepointinc.com

Maritza Piedrasanta started her career with Orco Sales Supply in 1984 as a secretary.  In 1985 - 1989, she worked for different attorneys in California as a legal secretary.  From 1989 – 1993 she worked in three different job sites as a secretary/customer service coordinator. In 1993-1994, she worked for a maintenance Co. as a secretary/accounts receivables dept.  On September 1994, Maritza moved to Oregon with her husband and two children after the January 17, 1994 earthquake.  In 1995 - 2000, Maritza worked for Ginsburg & Neal, attorneys at law and joined ChangePoint on December 2000 as the Hispanic Program Outreach Coordinator and later her position was added as the Beaverton Office Coordinator.  Maritza is now the Office Manager for the Main 122 office and Beaverton office.  She has been involved in the community doing presentations on Alcohol/Drug prevention. 

 
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