Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison came out of a one-year retirement from public service to take the...
In 2016, after eight years as an executive at CPS Energy, which followed 24 years with the city of San Antonio, Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison began her retirement.Instead, she resumed her career in public service in 2017 by becoming president and CEO of the Center for Health Care Services, or CHCS, a local mental health authority that offers a wide range of programs for people with mental health and substance abuse disorders.
“I had not worked in the mental health or medical industry at all. But I saw it as an opportunity to continue to be in public service,” she said. “I just felt like I had more to give.”In her five years at CHCS, she has steered the agency through the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused a spike in mental health disorders in Bexar County, she said. When some patients had trouble engaging with their therapists through phone calls and video sessions, she worked to find a way to bring them in.
Jelynne LeBlanc Jamison is president and CEO of the Center for Health Care Services, the mental health authority for Bexar County.Jamison, who grew up in Lousiana and graduated from Southern University in that state, had planned to become a lawyer, like her mother, until she met Earl Lewis, a professor at Trinity University who persuaded her to consider the San Antonio university’s urban studies graduate program. An internship with the city of San Antonio led to a job and a 24-year career.
She recently sat with the Express-News to discuss the impact of funding cuts from the state, the shortage of mental health professionals in the U.S. and the pandemic’s impact on the mental health of children and adults. The following has been edited for brevity and clarity.I’m very proud of the bricks and mortar. I worked in public works for a number of years — so streets and drainage projects.
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