OPEN MINDS Consultants & Advisors

Dan M. Aune, M.S.W.
Senior Consultant

Dan M. Aune, M.S.W., OPEN MINDS Senior Consultant, brings with him a wealth of clinical supervision, administration, program supervision and development experience. Until joining OPEN MINDS, Mr. Aune served as the Director of Galatin Mental health Center in Bozeman, Montana. In this role, he provided leadership, management, and development of a community based mental health center serving three counties and approximately 3,000 consumers. Mr. Aune participated on the Western Montana Mental Health Centers leadership team in the management of 14 Community Mental Health Centers.

As the Pediatric Services/Clinic & Clinician Supervisor at PRAIRIE St. John’s in Fargo, North Dakota, Mr. Aune was responsible for delivery of pediatric psychiatric and chemical dependency services to both inpatient and partial hospital programming and managed Clinic & Clinician services within the hospital and clinic environment. In his role as Lead Community Liaison at Prairie Psychiatric Center in Fargo, Mr. Aune provided marketing, business development and community relations to a five-state area (North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Minnesota and Iowa) and developed marketing strategies for private psychiatric and addiction services.

Throughout the past 27 years in the behavioral health and social service field, Mr. Aune has also provided counseling and training services in a variety of clinical and organizational settings. Since 1998, Mr. Aune has provided consulting and training for the Dream Catcher Institute North America that offers its services across international borders, with multi-cultural ethnic groups in education, business, corrections, and health care settings regarding lead management to enhance quality and employee team efforts and to Native American tribes regarding social, mental and healthcare issues. Mr. Aune received his Bachelors of Sociology/Social Work from Montana State University and his Masters of Social Work from the University of Denver.