Sam Joseph

Sam G. Joseph

Executive Director
Covenant House Michigan

About Sam Joseph:

Before joining Covenant House in 1997, Sam Joseph served as the administrator of mental health services for the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens in Jamaica, New York. There he developed and managed psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services for four hospitals and three long-term facilities. He developed programs that provided services to HIV infected infants, adolescents and pregnant women. Joseph also established and administered a specialized 168-bed program for mentally ill homeless adults, which became a model for the State of New York.

This administrative experience dates back to 1973 and includes 16 years to emotionally troubled young people. He has been an adjunct lecturer for post-graduate students in Mental Health Administration at the New School for Social Research and a visiting scholar at Columbia University, both in New York City.

Joseph received a BA in English Literature from Loyola College; an LPH in Rational Psychology and Natural Law from the College of the Jesuits; an MFA in Communications (Mass Media) from Columbia University in New York; and a post graduate certificate in mental health administration from the New School for Social Research in New York.