Our Mission, Values & Team
About SAE
We are a behavioral health consulting firm comprised of a broad range of clinical and executive content experts dedicated to helping agencies and providers sustain and grow their services to improve access to care and equity for vulnerable populations. We help clients achieve their goals through successful funding strategies at the local, state, and federal levels.
We specialize in mental health and substance abuse program development on behalf of clients who engage with the most at-risk populations across the life span, including the homeless, children and families, people coming out of prison, and those impacted by co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, including veterans.
Our innovative teams-led approach to increasing health literacy and improving health integration and access for vulnerable populations nationwide provides a client-facing, human-centered, integrated care approach to the human services organizations and agencies we work with.
Steve Estrine, Ph.D., Founder and President of SAE, brings the mentality of a 15-time NYC marathon runner to the company profile.
His more than 45 years of experience as a high-level administrator, strategic planner, and mental health and substance abuse program developer for the most vulnerable, at-risk populations across the life span has yielded millions in grant funding for programs serving the needs of these populations of care.
SAE (the business) was incorporated as SAE & Associates, LLC in September of 2005. Today, SAE embraces our new identity as SAE Behavioral Health Consulting, DBA (SAE BHC).
Our Mission
To Help Behavioral Health Providers Increase Resources & Operational Efficiency On Behalf Of the Populations They Serve
We Recognize
Times of crisis create dangers, but also provide opportunities for innovation and change
Systems – organizations, communities, public agencies – do best when they view themselves as part of a System of Care
More can be accomplished when stakeholders come together around a common agenda to create long-term solutions. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
There are no cookie-cutter problems and no cookie-cutter solutions
We Value
Systems focused change along a continuum from the individual, family, organization, community, and public sector
Provider-driven needs assessments and solutions
Data-driven strategies with measurable outcomes using evidence-based practices
Inclusion of community stakeholders and indigenous leaders in the identification of challenges and the development of feasible and sustainable solutions, “Nothing About Us Without Us”
Our Team
Steven A. Estrine, PhD
President & Chief Executive Officer
Steve Estrine, PhD, is the founder and president of SAE. He has more than 45 years of experience as a high-level administrator, strategic planner, and mental health and substance abuse program developer for the most vulnerable, at-risk populations across the life span. Dr. Estrine has held positions as Director of Adult Psychiatric Services of the New York State Office of Mental Health, Director of Public Sector Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital, and Director of Program Development at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health Systems. His guidance has yielded millions in grant funding for programs serving the needs of those who are homeless, coming out of prison, and/or impacted by co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, including veterans. His innovative approaches to increasing health literacy and improving health integration and access for vulnerable populations have been an asset to human services organizations and agencies since 2007. He is also the editor of Service Delivery for Vulnerable Populations: New Directions in Behavioral Health, published in 2011 by Springer publications. Dr. Estrine is a marathon runner, completing 16 NYC runs.
Zillah Glory
Chief Of Staff
Zillah Glory brings 23 years of communications-related experience and technical proficiency aggregated across a spectrum of business models that include leadership roles in not-for-profit arts organizations to online healthcare communications, website design, and small business marketing and development. She is keenly interested in humanizing the experts by leaning into whole-systems collective action to eliminate barriers in understanding – prioritizing the points of view of those struggling to gain access and expanding pathways to cohere, support, and funnel necessary care and knowledge where it is most needed and, ultimately, most effective.
Zillah is also SAE’s Director of Communications & Marketing. | zglory@saebhc.com
Rhonda Bohs, PhD
Director, Operations
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SAE’s team of prestigious experts is one of the most diverse in the field of mental health consulting. Not only is each person a standalone reservoir of knowledge and vetted experience, our teams are also uniquely selected to support and complement the needs of the applicant or entity.
