Leonetta Rizzi, Executive Director of the McHenry County Mental Health Board

Leonetta Rizzi has been the Executive Director of the McHenry County Mental Health Board (MHB) since January 2022.  She understands this community and the challenges provider agencies, their clients, and families are facing.  She is extremely committed to the provisions under the Community Mental Heath Act for the planning and funding of a truly integrated quality system of care for Mental Health, Intellectual/Developmental Disabiities and Substance Use Disorder in McHenry County. She has made many accomplishments to date, and she’s received a 2023 Distinguished Service Award for collaboration with Crystal Lake District 47 resulting in $5.6M federal mental health grant for that district.

Leonetta has an accomplished leadership, behavioral healthcare, and corporate healthcare career which began over 30 years ago working with at-risk youth and families. She has brought her leadership and diverse skill-set full circle here at the MHB and back to an industry that is truly her core passion. Her vast experiences range from inpatient & outpatient behavioral health services for youths as well as adults, Crisis Services including Critical Incident Stress Debriefing & Disaster Preparedness, SASS services, CCBYS, Child Welfare, Healthcare Innovations, Population Health, Accountable Care Organizations, National Health Clinic Collaborating Physician Operations/Contracts to Corporate Integrated Business Planning.  With a plethora of accomplishments in all these arenas including facilitating many of the strategic initiatives for a portfolio of business accounts valued over $22.5B, she is most proud of her work leading Crisis Services in McHenry Co from 1995-2011 and continues to forward to dedicating her service to ensuring a quality comprehensive integrated system of care is sustainable for generations to come in McHenry County. She has served on many local, regional, and state committees as well as healthcare and nonprofit boards. 

Leonetta is a proud tri-Husky, holding a BSN, MS in Family & Child Studies, and an MBA all from Northern Illinois University.

The Willow Creek Community Resource Day (CRD) Team

The Community Resource Day (CRD) exists as a collaboration of both government and nongovernment agencies, churches, faith-based organizations and nonprofit organizations who have the common vision of walking alongside our neighbors in need in McHenry County who are facing homelessness, personal crisis, situational trauma and lack of resources. Each agency/organization utilizes their specific resources and abilities to help meet the needs of our guests with dignity and compassion. Each of us realize that on our own, we can only do so much, but together, we are able to make a tangible difference in helping our guests move from under-resourced to having what they need, from feeling powerless to being empowered and from hopeless to hopeful! 30+ agencies/organizations contribute to the mission of CRD.

The CRD team includes (pictured from L to R): Julie Davis, Associate Campus Pastor of Willow Crystal Lake, Megan Bennett, formerly of McHenry County Housing Authority, Deb Anderson, CRD Agency and Volunteer Coordinator, and Gina Zinck, Coordinated Entry Lead for McHenry County.