Dr. Arthur C. Evans steps down Friday after 12 years as commissioner of the city’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services – the name is one of myriad changes, large and small, that came under his watch. Evans brought tremendous vision and led a system-wide transformation effort focused on recovery, resilience, and self-determination. He embraced everything from prevention, early detection and intervention, to a variety of treatment types for the most serious mental illnesses while infusing the use of evidence-based practices throughout the agency’s work.
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