Margaret Hannah, MEd, GCEC

 Margaret Hannah, MEd, GCEC, is the former Executive Director of the Freedman Center for Child and Family Development at William James College and the founder of INTERFACE Referral Service. She now serves as a Senior Consultant for the BHELS Center at William James College as well as a Master Coach Supervisor for the GCEC program.  She received her master’s degree in education with a concentration in community counseling and psychology from the University of Miami. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from William James College and has completed two years of coursework in the Doctoral Program for Leadership Psychology at William James College. Ms. Hannah has worked in schools and agencies for over 30 years, designing and developing programs and facilitating teacher and parent education programs and support groups. She has served as a project director for three federal grants for the delivery of mental health services within schools, and a grant to integrate mental health services between schools and community agencies. She serves or has served on many committees and task forces within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts advocating for mental health services, including the Massachusetts Academy of Pediatrics Mental Health Task Force, serving as a Commissioner on the Governor’s Commission on Post-Partum Depression and the Community Behavioral Health Promotion and Prevention Commission, Stakeholder group for the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative, and the City of Newton City-wide Emergency Response Team (CERT).  In addition to having served as the Executive Director of the Freedman Center at William James College, she taught in the School Psychology Department as Adjunct Faculty for 13 years.