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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,
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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! |
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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. |
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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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