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Richard Louis, III
Advisory Board Member, OPEN MINDS

Richard Louis, Advisory Board Member, brings 12 years of experience in psychiatric hospital management and administration and over 10 years of program/contract development and operations experience in local, regional, statewide and national markets. Richard has held many executive management positions with some of the leading behavioral healthcare companies in the Country. Richard pioneered the development of public sector partnerships, contracts and community mental health system joint ventures in California by creating some of the first private psychiatric hospital based specialty programs for county, state and federal healthcare agencies. In 2000 Richard went on to establish community based residential, institutional and outpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment programs for public sector agencies as a for-profit provider. In 2001 he started a new company called CHE Correctional Services, LLC, providing mental health and drug & alcohol treatment programs for offender populations in juvenile halls, jails, community residential, and Inpatient hospital & Outpatient settings.

Richard values community service and plays an active role as a volunteer in various community groups and organizations. As such he has served in many past and present leadership roles in the community including: the California Hospital Association - Advisory Board, SCAN Health Plan - Advisory Board; the Board of Directors of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California, College Hospitals and the Intercommunity Child Guidance Center of Whittier. He has served on Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's Youth & Family Executive Committee, and testified on behalf of the National Association of Psychiatric Healthcare Systems before President Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Richard is currently a volunteer police officer with the City of Monterey Park Police Department in East Los Angeles serving since 1987. Captain Louis has held many assignments including 8-years on the Asian Street Gang Enforcement & Organized Crime Unit, is currently assigned to Field Patrol and is a Reserve Bureau Commander overseeing the Reserve Police Officer Program.