Diana DiazGranados
Diana is the Executive Director of the Mental Health Coalition of Greater La Crosse and the Community Wellbeing Director at Great Rivers United Way, a newly established position aimed at fostering community mental wellness. She previously led Better Together, an eight-year youth mental health initiative, where her leadership significantly advanced strategies for increasing mental health literacy, resilience and community collaboration to support youth.
With extensive experience in community-level prevention, Diana enjoys working with organizations and communities to identify assets, address needs, and use data-driven approaches to inform decision-making. She began her career as a community health worker with the U.S. Peace Corps in Lesotho, southern Africa, and holds dual master’s degrees in social work and public health from Columbia University in New York. She is also a certified Mental Health First Aid trainer.
Diana’s global work includes leading the mental health response for International Medical Corps in Kosovo during the 1999 war, where she developed the nation’s first youth-focused trauma recovery program. She has also worked in Bangladesh, Guatemala, and Bulgaria,
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