Karin Jeffers

Karin Jeffers is President & CEO of Northampton-based nonprofit community behavioral health agency Clinical & Support Options Inc. (CSO). She has served in this role since 2005. During her tenure at the helm, theagency has grown from a $4 Million organization with fewer than 90 employees across just three Greenfield, Mass. locations to what is now a $44 million agency with more than 750 employees at 20 locations across Western Mass. Jeffers moved to Western Mass. in 1987 when first attending Springfield College as an undergrad. She eventually earned a Master of Science in Counseling and Psychological Services and became a Licensed Mental HealthCounselor (LMHC). Shortly thereafter, she began her career as a clinician, focusing primarily on families and children. In 1992, Jeffers joined Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC), where she stayed 14 years. At MSPCC, Jeffers was promoted six times, eventually becoming Regional Director. Jeffers decided early in her career that leadership roles enabled her to effect positive change on both a “micro” and “macro” level. While she has always enjoyed the service-level interaction with behavioral healthclients, she also appreciates the broader ways in which solid nonprofit administration can improve communities. That is why, in 2005, Jeffers joined Greenfield-based Clinical & Support Options Inc. (CSO) as their President and CEO. During her 15 years as President & CEO, CSO has seen year-over-year growth in both revenueand program expansion. The agency has added more than 650 jobs in the last decade and prides itself on internal promotion. CSO has earned national accreditation and has been awarded several key statewide and Federal grants. Jeffers’ guidance now enables CSOto provide affordable behavioral health services to more than 19,000 families and individuals annually.