Jonathan P. Edwards is the Training Specialist for Parachute NYC, a federally-funded project within the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Through his advocacy and involvement in the behavioral health field for over ten years, and driven by his personal experience with the mental health system, Mr. Edwards has played an integral role facilitating individual and system-wide change through programming and planning, clinical practice, training, and supervision. In his recent position as Director of Peer Services and Assistant Director of Wellness, Recovery, and Community Integration at Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC), he oversaw daily operations of peer services and supervised an unprecedented 24 peer counselors in a single NYC hospital. He has been instrumental to developing and facilitating multi-family groups to support the relatives and friends of individuals who utilized inpatient services. He earned Green-level certification in Lean methodology and served as team leader for a rapid improvement event to define, operationalize, and implement wellness and recovery principles and practices within behavioral health services at KCHC. He is also involved with the Community Access Howie the Harp Advocacy Center as a Peer Training Program instructor. Mr. Edwards has presented nationally and internationally on supervision, culture change, and recovery-oriented practice. He is a NYS Licensed Master Social Worker and a Doctoral Candidate in the social welfare program at Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College.