Patricia (Trisha) Strickland, BA

Patricia (Trisha) Strickland is the Assistant Program Director of Student Support Services. Previously, she served as the Assistant Program Director of Youth Mental Health Awareness Training (YMHAT) within the same department. Before joining Student Support Services, Trisha worked for three years in the Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services (BEESS), focusing on Dispute Resolution and Monitoring (DRM) as well as Instructional Support Services (ISS) at the Department of Education. Prior to that, she spent eight years working with Exceptional Student Education (ESE) at the district level. Trisha holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education for grades K-6 and in ESE for grades K-12. She also has endorsements in Reading and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), as well as in Social Science for grades 5-9.