Nirmala Dhar MSW, LCSW

Nirmala Dhar is a licensed clinical social worker with a Master’s in Social Work from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and Bombay University, India. She is mission-driven and has a passion to work with the most vulnerable clients, often with cross-sector complex care needs.

Nirmala has worked for 35 years in all aspects and programs of behavioral health in the public sector in Missouri, New Jersey, and Oregon. She is a senior policy analyst and the Older Adult Behavioral Health Services Coordinator for Oregon Health Authority‘s Health Systems Division.

In this position, she is the Older Adult Behavioral Health Initiative Project Director, the PASRR Level II Coordinator, and the subject matter expert for her Division. Prior to this position she worked for Clackamas County Behavioral Health for 18 years. This included 10 years as the geriatric mental health specialist for the County. She has provided training on a variety of topics over the past twenty years locally and nationally and enjoys coaching and mentoring new clinicians. Her areas of professional interest include healthy aging, social justice, workforce development, quality improvement, health metrics, and service delivery innovations.