Denise Hunt, RN, MFT, is a Community Representative on the Commission. She is a former Behavioral Health Director for Stanislaus County.

She moved to the Central Valley from the Bay Area in 1973.  Her first human services job was working as a house manager for a halfway house/group home for young men on parole from the Youth Authority. 

She began working for Stanislaus County in 1975 as a mental health worker in the locked psychiatric hospital in Turlock.  As she pursued her education in nursing and counseling, attending school while working, she gained experience as a mental health emergency services counselor, a nurse in the psychiatric hospital, and an outpatient group and individual therapist.,/

Ms. Hunt gradually assumed management responsibility, first as an outpatient counseling center coordinator and then as the coordinator of the Older Adult Services Team, which provided mental health and Public Guardian services to individual’s age 60 and older.  She was appointed Older Adult Services Chief and Public Guardian in 1997, BHRS Assistant Director in 2002, and Behavioral Health Director in 2005.