Sunithi Kuruppu, MSSW, serves as the Director of Strategy and Innovation for the Clear Pathways initiative at Peg’s Foundation. She has 20 years of experience in the behavioral health and healthcare information technology (HIT) industries. Based on her clinical background and healthcare technology experience, Sunithi is uniquely positioned to drive strategic innovation in communities across disparate systems. She has focused throughout her career on serving public sector clients at the local, county/city, state, and federal levels. Her portfolio of work includes stakeholder engagement, facilitation, training delivery and content development; development, writing and strategic advisory for HIT procurements (e.g., Requests for Proposals, etc.); HIT roadmap creation and implementations (e.g., electronic health records, case management solutions, etc.); strategic advisory, market research and landscape analysis for HIT and behavioral health including mental health, substance use disorder and crisis service delivery; Go-to-Market strategy, opportunity vetting and support services (e.g., Medicaid/Health and Human Services lines of business).