Karen Carloni, NCC, LCPC, CRC, brings more than 20 years of experience to the OPEN MINDS team as a Senior Associate. Ms. Carloni has extensive experience in non-profit management and program development, as well as fiscal oversight and grant writing.
Prior to joining OPEN MINDS, Ms. Carloni served as the Chief Operating Officer at Cornerstone Montgomery, a certified community behavioral health center spanning a four-county region. In this role, she worked alongside the CEO and the board of directors to ensure the development and implementation of the agency strategy. Ms. Carloni helped meet performance expectations under multiple grants (SAMHSA, county, state, private foundation), and managed budgets in multiple cost centers for an overall budget of $33 million and 450 staff. She also trained program directors and managers to ensure successful program delivery. In addition, she served as a freelance content writer for Choosing Therapy, writing articles in a variety of behavioral health content areas for an online blog.
Before that, Ms. Carloni served ten years as the Executive Director, Deputy Director, and PRP Director at Southern Maryland Community Network, Inc, a nonprofit organization with $6 million in annual revenue and 80 staff over a three-county, ex-urban area. She collaborated with the Board of Directors, internal and external stakeholders to provide excellence in service delivery in wide array of programs: PRP, vocational, residential, crisis, assertive community treatment, targeted case management, police liaison, justice reinvestment, and homeless outreach. Ms. Carloni ensured continuous adherence to CARF accreditation standards and COMAR regulations and a positive agency cultural climate and diversity, equity and inclusion in staffing, culture, and services. She oversaw the annual budget process and the development strategy. Ms. Carloni also managed the facilities and Medicaid/Medicare fee for service billing and grant funded programs. In April 2023, she successfully led and completed the strategic plan goal of merging with a CCBHC to ensure future sustainability.
Previously, Ms. Carloni was a Psychotherapist at Synergy E Therapy, where she offered private practice psychotherapy to adults, teens, and couples to meet mental health shortages during Covid-19. Ms. Carloni also served as the Emergency Psychiatric Services Consultant at Calvert Health. There, she preformed psychosocial assessments, linkage, and crisis intervention in the emergency department.
Ms. Carloni received her Master of Arts degree from the University of South Florida and her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida.