IMPACT Life was founded by Board President Domenica Personti, a recovery and re-entry expert with lived experience in recovery, extensive training and leadership. She has designed   and led numerous successful treatment, outreach, and prevention programs. Ms. Personti is a Delaware native who has represented the State at the local and National level as a trainer, motivational speaker, and industry leader. Ms. Personti was invited to speak at the White House in 2016 as part of the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys annual conference.  Ms Personti has 27 years’ experience in Behavioral Health Treatment and Prevention, including direct service and administrative management of programs. She brings many years of related experience in the operation of not-for-profit organizations, focusing on outreach, treatment, legislative advocacy, funding, prevention and education for the SUD population. She is a licensed clinician and holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. In addiction she holds multiple addictions and prevention certifications. While working at a local non-profit she participated in the creation of one of the first syringe exchange programs in the country. In addition, she also managed the first hospital-based peer engagement program in the Country, Project Engage, which won an award from the White House in 2007, for the program’s great impact and efficacy. In addition to those milestone programs, Domenica also helped develop and manage the first prostitution diversion program in the State. She has traveled all over the US training other states to adopt the methodology of these programs, through conferences and site visits. Ms. Personti has years of experience managing successful, complex programs. Her experience includes managing over $6.6 million in federal grants to provide intensive case management to homeless substance abusers, prevention grants targeting individuals who are underserved and diagnosed with HIV or HEP C, medical grants that allowed for mobile medical services statewide, plus Delaware’s first Prostitution Diversion Program, and Delaware’s first Naloxone Distribution Program. In her current role outside of Impact Life, Domenica manages programs with operating budgets in upwards of $41 million. She has assembled coalitions of practitioners statewide in Delaware, as well as Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey that interact with the population of focus, including community health/public health providers, law enforcement agencies, court professionals, corrections professionals, and local academic institutions.