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TASC hires director for health and justice center
A longtime staff member at Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities (TASC) has been named executive director of the organization's Center for Health and Justice, which supports law enforcement's diversion of individuals into community-based substance use and mental health treatment programs.
Jac Charlier joined TASC in 2011 and now becomes the first full-time executive director of the Center for Health and Justice. His recent efforts with the center have led to accomplishments such as design of research-based tools to screen for opioid overdose risk, as well as initiation of successful Illinois legislation to facilitate pre-arrest diversion to treatment.
TASC president Pam Rodriguez said of Charlier, “His experience in community corrections, his understanding of the importance of local solutions to solve local problems, and his ability to see the big picture as well as commonalities among jurisdictions, all have enabled him to successfully build coalitions that work toward common goals.”
