About me
Becky Brasfield is an award-winning Recovery Leader, Policy Researcher and Certified Peer Support Specialist based in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Brasfield is a staunch advocate for mental health recovery, disability rights, and justice reform. She currently works as a Policy Researcher for Human Services Research Institute. HSRI’s mission is to improve lives by crafting community-based, person driven systems in which all people live as healthy, fulfilled, empowered, and respected members of society.
Ms. Brasfield is also employed part-time as a Peer Support Specialist for Community Counseling Centers of Chicago where she provides recovery support services and innovative training programming. In 2022, Ms. Brasfield was named to Crain’s Chicago Business List of Notable Black Leaders and Executives. And in 2023, she was awarded with several fellowships including, the Human Services Research Institute’s Behavioral Health Fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation’s Cook County Racial Equity Fellowship, the Illinois Caring Across Generations Fellowship, and the Canary Impact Prize. In 2023, the Governor of Illinois appointed Ms. Brasfield to a three-year term as Commissioner of the Southeast Expanded Mental Health Services Program and Ms. Brasfield is an inaugural member of Disability Lead. She has been featured in a documentary film and recently published a book entitled 365 Wellness and Recovery: One Year of Group Facilitation Ideas based on her pivotal in-person service work during the global pandemic.
In addition to her many accomplishments, Ms. Brasfield also recently served as President of the NAMI Illinois Alliance of Peer Professionals, the state of Illinois’ first peer professional association. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Master’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Illinois. And her multi- and interdisciplinary work are grounded by the belief that through a commitment to mission, purpose, , and ethics, a person’s life can be dramatically transformed.
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