Daisy Berbeco Explained

Daisy Berbeco
State House:Vermont
District:Chittenden-21
Alongside:Taylor Small
Term Start:January 4, 2023
Predecessor:Hal Colston
Birth Date:Alaska
Party:Democratic
Residence:Winooski, Vermont
Alma Mater:Sonoma State University
University of Sussex

Daisy Berbeco is an American politician from Vermont. She has been a Democratic member of the Vermont House of Representatives for the Chittenden-21 District since 2023.[1] Berbeco is a member of the House Committee on Health Care.

Berbecos career has focused on mental health and substance use advocacy, policy and practice improvement. She spent six years at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, a Washington, DC-based member association that represents more than one million mental health and substance use treatment providers. Berbeco is a former mental health policy adviser[2] at the State of Vermont. She has served as the Secretary for the Finance & Policy Division of the National Association of Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and was a member of Vermont's State Substance Misuse Prevention and Oversight Council and the Vermont Suicide Prevention Coalition.

In 2023 Berbeco was appointed to the Executive Board of the Urban Institutes Vermont Prison Reform and Innovation Network as well as the Vermont Judiciary Commission on Mental Health and the Courts and the Vermont Agency of Human Services Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Steering Committee.

In 2024 Berbeco joined the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), Behavioral Health, Aging, and Disability Steering Committee and the Behavioral Health Committee of the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators. [3]

She is also a Justice of the Peace in Winooski, Vermont (2022-) and on the Advisory Board of the Hopi Foundation's peer-run Substance Use Prevention Center on the Hopi Reservation, Arizona (2019-). [4]

Electoral History

2022

See also: 2022 Vermont House of Representatives election.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Daisy Berbeco . 2024-02-06 . Ballotpedia . en.
  2. Web site: 2022-05-17 . Daisy Berbeco announces candidacy for Winooski State Representative . 2024-02-06 . Community News Service . en-US.
  3. Web site: Daisy Berbeco Experience and Results . 2024-06-11 . daisyberbeco.com/. en-US.
  4. Web site: Daisy Berbeco Experience and Results . 2024-06-11 . daisyberbeco.com/. en-US.