Joe Dan Beavers is the President/CEO of LifeSkills, Inc. a community mental health center based in Bowling Green, Kentucky. With over 25 years in healthcare, his work focuses on expanding access to mental health, addiction treatment, and developmental disability services in rural communities.
LifeSkills was founded in 1966 and serves over 26,000 individuals each year through mental health, substance use disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities programs. In January of 2020 LifeSkills and the Pennyroyal Center merged, creating one of Kentucky’s largest community mental health centers.
Later that year, LifeSkills also helped lead the formation of the Community Health Network of Kentucky (CHN). CHN includes LifeSkills, Pennyroyal Center and three additional community mental health centers in Kentucky. Together CHN supports over 64,000 individuals annually through 55 programs across rural Kentucky.
Joe Dan has a BS in Accounting from Western Kentucky University, a Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration from the University of Kentucky and is a Certified Public Accountant.