Eileen Schell MA
EILEEN SCHELL (she/hers) works for Mental Health America of SC as their Community Resource Coordinator. She worked for many years in the long-term care industry as the Social Services Director at several nursing homes and was the director of an assisted living community in Columbia. She then worked for Prisma Health for almost 22 years, educating about mental health issues and treatments as well as about Children’s Hospital and its specialty practices.
She is a past president of the Mid-Carolina affiliate of NAMI – the National Alliance on Mental Illness and the former chair of the SC Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She also served on the Chapter Leadership Council for the national AFSP office.
She has a Bachelor’s Degree from Tulane University and completed her Master’s Degree at Columbia College in 2005.