Health & Wellness Council

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“PWC’s Opioid Process Action Team – Where we Have Been, Where we are Going.”

Presented by: LeNelle Mozell MSW, LCSW, PWC CS and Dr. Alison Ansher, MD, MPH, PWHD

LeNelle Mozell is the Behavioral Health Program Manager for the Comprehensive Outpatient Recovery Program (CORP) with Community Services (We are the CORP of recovery!). This team provides therapy services to clients with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders. The CORP team has a several sub-specialties including a Peer Recovery Program called SOAR (Support Outreach Advocacy Recovery), as well as a program for women who are pregnant and/or parenting, the Women’s Recovery Project. LeNelle has worked at Community Services for 8 years and prior to beginning to work in Prince William County, she worked as the Program Director of the Residential Program Center’s Substance Abuse Unit in Arlington, VA. She oversaw the in-patient Detox as well as the 90-day treatment program. A native North Carolinian, LeNelle graduated from Duke University in 1992 and moved to Boston after graduation. She began working in a substantially-separate school system within Boston Public Schools providing services to children with behavioral issues. In 2003, LeNelle received her Master of Social Work from Simmons University, and began working in the SUD field in a Medication-Assisted Treatment Program before moving to Virginia in 2007. She is currently an LCSW in Virginia and North Carolina. LeNelle also has a private practice providing individual therapy to children and adolescents.

Dr. Ansher is the health director of the Prince William Health District that provides services for Prince William County, Manassas City, and Manassas Park. Dr. Ansher has worked in public health almost 30 years in the health district, beginning as the Director of Women’s and Teen health services, as well as developing and directing the local Tuberculosis program.

In 2004 to 2006, she was Acting Health Director while the Health Director served time overseas with the National Guard. Later, Dr. Ansher formally became the Health Director in 2006 to the present, a nationally accredited health department.

Dr. Ansher has been a clinical preceptor for George Mason and George Washington College of Nursing and Health Sciences for both nurses and nurse practitioners, as well as a preceptor for public health interns from schools in Virginia for students working on their MPH or Dr.Ph.

Dr. Ansher was the co-chair and one of the founding members of the Community Healthcare Coalition of Greater Prince William. This coalition has lead the local Community Health Assessments and the Community Health Improvement Plan work.

Dr. Ansher is an active participant in the GMU College of Health and Human Advisory Board, Metropolitan Council of Government Health Officers Committee, and Mason and Partners Advisory Board. She has written and received multiple grants, written publications, and received several awards for her service to the community.

Dr. Ansher received her Bachelor of Science degree in microbiology from the University of Maryland, College Park, Medical Degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Masters of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health.  She trained as an OB/Gyn at the Washington Hospital Center and was a Chief Resident in her last year of training.  She is licensed to practice medicine in Maryland and Virginia. 

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