Adam Bloom-Paicopolos, Executive Director
abloompaicopolos@masap.org
Adam Bloom-Paicopolos, MPP serves as the Executive Director of the Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services, Maine’s statewide behavioral health provider association. In this role, he leads the Alliance’s policy, advocacy, and education initiatives to improve access to high-quality, evidence-based behavioral health services for individuals, families, and communities across Maine. Adam brings extensive mission-driven experience addressing complex health care delivery challenges and strengthening behavioral health systems of care through Medicaid policy, collaborative stakeholder engagement, strategic partnerships, and systems change initiatives.
Prior to joining the Alliance, Adam held policy and consulting roles with ATI Advisory, Pointe Health, and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), where he partnered with state agencies, federal policymakers, and national health care organizations to advance policies and programs that improved health care access, quality, and outcomes, particularly for underserved and rural communities.
Adam earned a Master of Public Policy in Health Policy & Public Leadership and a Bachelor of Arts in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Maine Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Jennifer Christian, Associate Director
jchristian@masap.org
Jennifer Christian has over 20 years of experience in community outreach, partnership and development in the non-profit sector, including grant research, gift leadership development, special events coordination, communications, public relations, grant writing, conference planning, public speaking, and community partnership growth. Jennifer’s partnership-building skills reflect her life-long passion to enrich lives through community and collaboration. Previously, Jennifer created and directed Maine College of Art’s (MECA) Creative Community Partnerships (CCP)program, the College’s community learning resource center, established in 2002. Jennifer has also held positions as an arts education coordinator at Portland, Maine’s A Company of Girls, and has taught students and faculty from Pre-K through the University level through her unique codification of collaborative curricula.
Jennifer received her BA in history & international relations from Barnard College, Columbia University, NYC, and completed a thesis and graduate work in international affairs at King’s College, London, UK. Jennifer has also completed work towards a certificate degree from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in painting.