Christine Edwards is the manager of our Fernley location. She has been a CADC since April of 2024. Christine has an Associate of Arts from WNC (Western Nevada College), a minor in substance use treatment from CASAT (Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies) at UNR (University Nevada Reno) and has completed her bachelor’s in social work from Umass Global/Brandman College as of April of 2023. Christine’s passion is working with substance use disorders. She believes treatment should be client-centered and solution-focused. Using evidence-based interventions such as motivational interviewing, she hopes to help clients gain the necessary skills to help manage their addictions. Christine also supervises all of the PRSS in the agency. She provides guidance and helps to ensure the PRSS have the support they need. Christine is currently part of the drug court team in Lyon County, where she advocates for our clients. Her professional goal is to help addicts become better at life and she accomplishes that at the administrative level as an office manager. She hopes to affect all of the clients that walk into her office on some level!