Rose became Executive Director of NAMI PA York County in January 2007. Up until that time, she had been a member of NAMI for 15 years and the local affiliate president for 5 years. She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in Long Term Care Administration from York College of Pennsylvania in 1988. Previously, she worked as Director of an adult day care center for 4 years and as a senior center director for 14 years.



Her experience with having a family member with a mental illness inspired her transition into the mental health field in 2006. Knowing the importance of NAMI’s goals of education, advocacy, and support, she realized, as an affiliate president, that an office with staff available during daytime hours was necessary to accomplish these goals.



Rose serves on numerous committees, including the Service Area Planning (SAP) and Continuity of Care (COC) committees at Wernersville State Hospital, the Local Housing Options Team (LHOT), Recovery Oreinted Coalition (ROC), and the Evacuating Community Residents in Need (ECRIN) Advisory Committee. In 2009 she was apppointed to the Board of Directors at Wernersville State Hospital.  She is also a certified trainer for Pat Deegan’s “Hearing Distressing Voices”.  In 2009 she was selected to become a board member at Wernersville State Hospital.



She lives in Red Lion, with her husband, Jay. They celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary on February 14, 2008. She has 3 children- Marcus, Christopher, and Laura- and one grandchild, Alyssa. One of her proudest personal accomplishments is learning to scuba dive in 2007.