Dave Rastatter has worked with children and their families for 17 years. He provided the daily leadership for youth Behavioral Health Services at North Colorado Medical Center for 10 years. He created and managed the Collaborative Education Program which today provides educational services to over 40 emotionally disturbed students. This process involved developing one cohesive program from many philosophies. Melding twelve school districts into one unit. Dave is highly skilled at forming community partnerships: Uniting many voices into one vision. He also managed the psychiatric services at McKee Medical Center for three years.

Dave is currently working as the Director of Child and Family Services for North Range Behavioral Health. He manages the operations of the Kathleen Painter Littler Center, a 24 bed residential center for children; Outpatient Child and Family Services including the behavioral health programming offered in our clinic site, the Juvenile Assessment Center, Platte Valley Youth Detention Center, School based Health Centers and numerous local high schools and alternative educational programs; Intensive Child and Family Services, including the Multi Systemic and Functional Family Therapy teams; Multicultural Services including the Integrated Behavioral Health Services provided at Monfort’s Children Clinic and Monfort’s Family Clinic at Sunrise Community Health Center as well as all operations in the southern Weld County area.

His current task is to design and implement a comprehensive countywide treatment system for children and their families. This process involves uniting many public and private agencies: Melding different viewpoints into one vision while placing the needs of children and families in the center.

Scott Shannon, MD graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Following a psychiatric internship he worked for four years in rural Arizona as a general practitioner. Scott then completed a psychiatric residency at a Columbia program in New York. After his child psychiatry fellowship at the University of New Mexico he moved to Colorado. His practice includes a wide variety of approaches including herbs, supplements, medications, nutrition, and acupuncture. Dr. Shannon served as the Principle Investigator on a recent research grant exploring the value of acupuncture in the nausea of chemotherapy.

Scott joined the American Holistic Medical Association in 1978 as a founding member. He served as president of that group from 2000-2001. Scott currently serves on the American Board of Holistic Medicine. Academic Press published his textbook for professionals, Handbook of Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Mental Health in 2002. Rodale Press published his book, Please Don’t Label My Child in August of 2007. Dr. Shannon lectures widely to professionals on the holistic/integrative treatment of psychiatric problems.

Scott has a long history of collaborative and multi-disciplinary innovation. In 1983 he developed one of the first integrated holistic medical clinics in the state of Arizona. In 1992 he founded Pathways, a multi-disciplinary mental health care clinic in Greeley, Colorado. Within 3 years this grew to 12 practitioners and a $1.2 million dollar budget. In 1997 Scott founded InnerHealth, a fully integrative medical clinic in Fort Collins. Two years later he was asked to start a hospital based holistic medical clinic at McKee Medical Center in Loveland. Scott finds value in collaboration and naturally moves towards collective innovation.

For more information about Dr. Shannon
please visit his website: www.wholeness.com