Heidi Cloutier

Heidi Cloutier is the Director of Wildcats for Recovery, the first Collegiate Recovery program in NH, Director of NH Collegiate Recovery and in her role as Co-Director of Training for the Children's Behavioral Health Team, provides training, consultation, and technical assistance in the development and expansion of substance use supports for youth and young adults, Youth Leadership and RENEW, an intensive support intervention to help at risk youth engage in high school completion and post-secondary options and Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), and Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).

Heidi received her MSW from the University of New Hampshire, is a NH Leadership Graduate, and was endorsed by the University of Connecticut’s New England Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports Training of Trainers Program. She has extensive experience working with youth and adults in transition planning, person centered planning, educational supports and community mental health. Heidi presents nationally on topics of transition planning, MTSS/ PBIS, Autism, Behavioral Health and Coaching practices for sustainability and fidelity. She coordinated a statewide effort to develop the NH Alternative Peer Group Model in 2019, convening individuals and families with lived experience with substance use disorders, treatment providers, and policy makers to define the APG Model implemented in NH, deveoped evaluation and data collection sytsems to support organizations implementing APGs and collegiate recovery programs. Heidi has co- authored several Training Curricula, and peer reviewed journal articles, as well as resource guides and videos used to improve behavioral health.