Lowena West

Lowena West is the Director of Clinical Operations, Virtual Services Lead Developer, and responsible for Deputy Management (Under Contract) at Bahamas Association for Social Health (BASH), a residential care treatment and developmental mapping organization located in New Providence, Bahamas.  Her career has encompassed business planning, executive management, and social impacts within workplaces across the globe.  She is a former business development consultant who is now addressing behavioral and mental healthcare management and uncovering issues of substance use disorders as an International Certified Addiction Professional (ICAP I- #284) and Certified Evidence-based Prevention (INEP-Plus) Program Facilitator.  She brings over 15 years of clinical expertise in end-to-end behavioral science navigation to creating and sustaining the human potential of the certified and licensed clinical team service delivery that is results oriented, multidimensional, and client centered.  More than five years ago, she combined the best in secure and compliant network technology to ensure regulatory confidentiality with BASH’s (Fellow Seasoned Harm Reduction Program Designers) unmatched and industry leading (5) Phase Curriculum Model digitally.  Serving both in-person program and virtual she has organized and implemented a holistic approach to healthcare delivery systems that have enhanced the lives of clients and their families by implementing culturally diverse, clinical neuroscience, data-driven, and research-based treatment programs. Her related areas of interest and continued specialties include multiple therapy modalities for treatment seeking individuals such as cognitive behavior therapy, co-occurring conditions, brain maturity, family relationships style, trauma informed care, mindfulness, combination of models, and behavioral diagnostics.  Lowena believes that all people deserve access to mental and behavioral health with dignity to ensure a positive experience.

She integrates nutrition and wellness approaches to accelerate the balance of recovery and longevity-oriented healing.  Lowena West has co-authored a harm reduction book entitled “On The Road Again: A Street Worker’s Handbook (First Edition, 2002),” a publication in support of DOH International made possible with funding from the European Commission to establish a common response to drug use and its consequences in Asia and the Caribbean.  Lowena received her dual Master’s in Business Administration and Master’s in Community Economic Development from the University of Southern New Hampshire.