SmartSafeHealthy is based on the work of Paul Komarek, an author, consultant and educator who has focused on many of society's toughest problems for over forty years. Learn about his consulting work at www.HumanIntervention.net. Learn about his approach to the heroin epidemic at www.SharpStopHeroin.com and to mental health recovery at www.defyingmentalillness.net.
In 2020, to deliver this programming, and develop new programming, Paul formed SmartSafeHealth LLC. Joining Paul in this new venture are Kate Spelman, a registered nurse, and Jennifer Maria Padron, a nationally recognized peer support expert. This new team brings together multiple perspectives on what really helps people, what reforms are necessary, what techniques will pay off, and what's possible today.
In 2020, to deliver this programming, and develop new programming, Paul formed SmartSafeHealth LLC. Joining Paul in this new venture are Kate Spelman, a registered nurse, and Jennifer Maria Padron, a nationally recognized peer support expert. This new team brings together multiple perspectives on what really helps people, what reforms are necessary, what techniques will pay off, and what's possible today.
Paul Komarek
Paul Komarek is a consultant, author and educator whose specialties are curriculum design, program design, and program startups in regulated areas. Komarek has helped start behavioral health treatment programs, caregiver support programs, child care programs, youth development programs, job training programs, and small business development programs. He has helped clients secure millions of dollars of grants and sustainable funding. Learn more at www.humanintervention.net.
Jen Padron
Jen Padron uses emergent design techniques to embed peer support into a wide variety of systems and settings. A peer support innovator, she is familiar with the whole range of public and private peer health workforce models for young people and adults, Jen has successfully embedded Certified Peer Specialists into co-located networked care environments, community public mental health, and education settings. She has worked in frontier, rural, and urban infrastructure development, developed public health messaging campaigns and with regional and national crisis management services. Her subject matter expertise includes suicide, homicide, and secondary education. For more information, contact Jen at jennifermpadron (at) gmail.com.
Kate Spelman
Kate Spelman became an RN after working as a paramedic, in 1988. She has experience in many areas of care ranging from prehospital care to palliative care. She has cross cultural experience, management experience, and chemical dependency treatment experience. She worked in Central America for an extended period of time. Throughout her career she has focused on underserved clients and veterans.
