Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Administrative Board Members

Board Chair

Joan Clement, M.S.W., LICSW, resides in Council District 2. Ms. Clement has held supervisory positions in social work since 1980 at Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington Medical Center, and Veteran's Administration Medical Center. She has been an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine. Ms. Clement has also published several articles on emergency health services. She was the recipient of the1990 Outstanding Clinical Faculty Award from the University of Washington, Dept. of Psychiatry School of Medicine, and the recipient of the 1992 National Association Workers Knee/Whitman Lifetime Health/Mental Health Achievement Award. She has been on the King County Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Administrative Board since 1984. She served in various King County committees and task forces, which include Chronic Public Inebriate Task Force, Systems Integration Advisory Council, Human Services Roundtable Family Violence Work Group, Jail Psychiatric Services Task Force, and Mental Health Crisis Services Evaluation Task Force. Currently, she is the Social Work Supervisor for the HIV/AIDS program at Harborview Medical Center.

Vice-Chair

Pat Godfrey, resides in Council District 7. Mr. Godfrey was the Senior Staff Coordinator for the Washington State Senate. Mr. Godfrey was an advisor and confidant to Senate Leadership for nearly nineteen years, retiring in 2001. He joined the Board due to the depth of his interest in and commitment to recovery programs stemming from his personal experience with the disease of alcoholism. He has been sober for twenty-nine years and is active with alcohol and substance abuse recovery programs in the Federal Way area.

Linda Brown resides in Council District 4. Ms. Brown earned her Ph.D in Nursing from the University of Colorado. She worked as Research Scientist for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute-University of Washington from 1998 to 2003; as Research Assistant Professor, School of Nursing at the University of Washington in 1991-1998; and in nursing management positions at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics and Cedarcrest Regional Hospital in Connecticut. She has published in the areas of community and mental health, addiction, and program evaluation. She has spent 9-10 years doing program evaluation with public sectors programs including mental health, substance abuse, and criminal justice programs for offenders. Ms. Brown served as KCASAAB Chair in 2002-2006. She is currently serving as Board Liaison to the Mental Illness and Drug Dependency Oversight Committee (MIDD OC) and co-chaired the MIDD OC Prioritization Sub-committee.

Jim Benbow resides in Council District 2. Mr. Benbow is Associate Director of the Addictive Treatment Center at Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center. He has worked in the mental health and addictive treatment field for 30 years. The majority of his service has been with military veterans cared for by the VA Puget Sound Health Care System. He has several years of experience in the provision of treatment and social services for people with substance use and mental health disorders.

Roger Goodman resides in Council District 6. Mr. Goodman is an attorney licensed in Washington and is an appointed member of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Substance Abuse. Mr. Goodman served as senior staff in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1980s and 1990s in Washington D.C., and in the late 1990s he served in Olympia as Executive Director of the Washington Sentencing Guidelines Commission. In 2008, Mr. Goodman was re-elected to the Washington State House of Representatives from the 45^th Legislative District. In addition to his current legislative position, he serves as Executive Director of the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, working nationwide with bar associations on drug policy reforms.

Gina Grappone resides in Council District 4. Ms. Grappone earned her Bachelor of Arts in English (Honors) and Women’s Studies (summa cum laude) from the University of New Hampshire. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Science and Management of Addictions (SAMA) Foundation. For over fifteen years Gina has worked extensively and collaboratively to improve services and systems affecting underserved populations, with a focus on women, children and young adults. She has held communications and policy positions within non-profit organizations and state government, including the offices of governors in Arizona and New Hampshire.

Ruvin Munden resides in Council District 5. He graduated cum laude from Seattle University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Administration. As a recruiter he has done advocacy & community engagement for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Puget Sound. He has served for the last 7 years as an Activities Coordinator for a local drug and alcohol recovery community center in North Seattle. He also worked with children incarcerated at Echo Glen WA State Juvenile Corrections Facility as a Group Format Coordinator, and as a Sobering Technician for Recovery Centers of King County's Sobering Center. Most currently he is an active Board Member for Youthcare in Seattle. He has a deep passion for social justice and child welfare issues, and believes where community and government intersect is a place where great change can happen.