Executive Director
Dr. Dominique Simon-Levine has been a substance abuse researcher since 1998. She has worked extensively developing and evaluating federally-funded substance abuse programs for community-based organizations and low-income clinics in Massachusetts and New York. With an interest in recovery and substance abuse issues for 20 years, she saw a huge need to help families and loved ones develop the skills to help those with substance abuse issues recover fully in a supportive, whole, and lasting way in their families and in their communities. Her mission is to have AIR help fill that gap, in the Northampton area and beyond.
Read an article by Dr. Simon-Levine recently published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Clinical Consultants
Dr. David Scherer is a clinical psychologist whose work with troubled adolescents has contributed to the knowledge on best practices for treating adolescents with psychological problems. Dr. Scherer is widely published. He has been actively involved in providing therapeutic interventions for and training psychotherapists to work with children, adolescents, and families. He is a Lecturer in the Psychology Department in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Dr. Robert Meyers developed CRAFT and is Hazelden’s 2002 recipient of the Dan Anderson Research Award for significant research contribution in the field of substance abuse. He has published over 50 scientific articles and co-authored 5 books on addiction, including Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading and Threatening and Motivating substance abusers to enter treatment: working with family members. Dr. Meyers has been in the addiction field for 30 years. He is a research associate professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addiction.