Ms.
Week’s career in human services has spanned both the public and
private/not-for-profit sectors. A graduate of Columbia University’s
graduate schools of social work and business, she has served as a
Manhattan Borough Manager for the New York City Department of Mental
Health and as the Commissioner of Mental Health for Orange County, New
York.
Nathalie brings to African Services’ board, 25 years of experience
working on the frontlines of the AIDS crisis in New York City. In 1982,
she became involved with the founders of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis,
lending her support to the development of services directed to an
as-yet unnamed epidemic. She became a volunteer at GMHC in 1985 and, in
1986, joined its Board of Directors. At that time, Ms. Weeks entered
county government and later served as Deputy Executive Director of GMHC
from 1990 to 1993.
Since then, she has been a deputy executive director of a hundred-year
old New York City settlement house providing mental health and HIV/AIDS
services, a private consultant to a number of not-for-profit and
governmental agencies, and is currently the Senior Vice President for
Behavioral Services at the Staten Island Mental Health Society where
she is responsible for the Children’s Community Mental Health Center.
Nathalie began her career as a certified social worker and has also
lived and worked extensively in Africa.
