Chapter 01/Leadership Through Service
Verified contentCarroll D. Parks
BSW, MPA
Leadership Through Service
- DC ATRC
- Treasurer, Board of Directors
- Organization
- Hillcrest Children and Family Services
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Service
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Leadership
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Recovery
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Service creates opportunity.
Leadership strengthens systems.
Recovery restores lives.
Carroll D. Parks, BSW, MPA, serves as Treasurer of the DC Addiction Treatment and Recovery Coalition and is Chief Executive Officer of Hillcrest Children and Family Services — a role he assumed on March 1, 2025, after serving as the organization's Chief Operating Officer.
His career spans more than 35 years across behavioral health, human services and public administration, from direct clinical and program work to executive leadership. He has also served as Director of Adult Services for the District of Columbia Department of Mental Health.
That combination of clinical grounding, public-sector stewardship and executive management shapes the perspective he brings to the coalition: treatment holds when the organizations delivering it are strong, coordinated and accountable to the people they serve.
“Rehabilitation is a pathway to reclaiming lives.”
Carroll D. Parks
Sources & credit
Sources: DC ATRC Board of Directors listing (dcatrc.org); Hillcrest Children and Family Services announcement of Mr. Parks' appointment as Chief Executive Officer effective March 1, 2025. The quotation is carried from the tribute draft; its primary source is being confirmed.
After chapter one
One leader. One perspective.
Part of a much larger coalition.