Chris McLaughlin, LCSW is the Executive Director of the Maine Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and is the owner and lead consultant of Inspired Consulting Group, LLC. A lifelong resident of Maine, he obtained both his BA in Psychology (1996) and his MSW (2001) from the University of Maine in Orono. Chris has spent the last 20+ years providing behavioral health services to youth and families across a variety of clinical settings including treatment foster care, residential treatment facilities, public schools, private practice, community-based case management programs, and psychiatric hospitals. Chris is an adjunct faculty member at both the University of Maine in Orono and Husson University in Bangor. He served on the Maine Board of Social Work Licensing for 5 years and is a member of both the NASW and the Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care (SSWLHC). He is a graduate of the Disney Institute leadership program and Maine’s “Daniel Hanley Health Leadership Development” (HLD) program. Locally, Chriswas recognized in 2019 for his advocacy work with LGBTQ+ youth and was named Health Care Social Worker of the Year in 2019 by the Maine Hospital Association and the Maine Chapter of the SSWLHC. Nationally, he was the SSWLHC’s 2019 recipient of the Eleanor Clark Award for Innovative Programs in Patient Care for his work on youth suicide prevention. Chris and his husband live in Hermon, Maine with their 3 dogs, Anna, Becky, and Sawyer.
