Richard Kunnert, MS. Ed.

Mr. Kunnert retired as Director of the Singer Mental Health & Developmental Center in 1996 after 30 years of serving in a variety of counselor and supervisor positions there.  He also served as Assistant Regional Administrator for Mental Health Programs (1971-1985) and Network Manager (1994-1996) for the Illinois Dept. of Mental Health.

Dick served as a member of the Rockford (IL) Diocesan Intervention Team for over 20 years, and is Chairman of the Mayor’s Task Force on the Homeless in Rockford, a post he also had held for more than 20 years.  He also serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Jubilee Center, Shelter Care Ministries, a member of the Illinois Board for the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Co-Chair of the Illinois Mental Health Planning & Advisory Council’s Office of Mental Health, a Volunteer Co-Leader of United Way’s 61104 Collaborative project in Rockford, and President of the Mental Health Association of the Rock River Valley.

His remarkable record of community service has been recognized by more than a dozen awards from mental health and community service organizations in cities all across Illinois — including Champaign, Chicago, DeKalb, Dixon, Galesburg, Rockford, Rock Island and Springfield.

Dick has facilitated Lead Like Jesus Encounters since 2003 — working with groups of Catholic priests, permanent deacons and ministry professionals, as well as ecumenical groups of clergy and laity, and former prisoners on probation and parole.

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