Maurice Heidish, LCSW, is the past Director of the Community Partnerships Division of Family Services of Western Pennsylvania, a large diverse social service and behavioral health non-profit organization. He served in multiple roles with the agency with the last 14 being as Director of the Division. His early clinical experience entailed treating families with mentally, emotionally and/or behaviorally disturbed children and adults with co-occurring mental health and drug and alcohol dependence. Within his current Directorship/Administrative role, he has also provided direct service, trained, and led a team of Family Therapists.
Maurie specializes currently as an organizational and program development consultant, and a clinical supervisor for agencies providing Specialized Family Therapy. He also provides clinical supervision for those clinicians seeking to be licensed.
Mr. Heidish has been recognized by the Staunton Farm Foundation, which provides grants for behavioral health innovations. He received the 2011 Albert B Craig Memorial Award for this Specialized Family Therapy training regimen for Family Therapists. Mr. Heidish was also a finalist for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Community Health/Mental Health Leadership Program 2004. He was also nominated for the Promoting Justice award from the Foundation for the Improvement of Justice 2005, and nominated for National Council of Excellence in Innovations Awards, 2008.
Mr. Heidish has taught at the graduate school of Marriage and Family Therapy at Seton Hill University and the Counseling Psychology Masters Program at Chatham University, as well as providing Continuation Education Seminars for Post Graduates at the University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Social Work. He has made numerous presentations at the Senior leadership Conferences for the Alliance for Children and Families. He will be presenting his Specialized Family Therapy Training Module in October of 2013 at the National Conference of Marriage and Family Therapists in Portland, Oregon.