A Learning Community Event for Integrated Behavioral Health Professionals
“Grand rounds” for integrated behavioral health care, community health, and human services. Our free, monthly lecture and discussion series features guest speakers who are content area experts and leaders in the field on current and emerging trends and healthcare practices
About Dan Gelbtuch Dan Gelbtuch was born and grew up with his three siblings in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Greater Boston’s Jewish Community. He studied history and religion at Wesleyan University and received a Master’s in Education from Queens College. Dan taught for three years in the New York City public school system, focusing on social movements. He returned to Boston in 2007 to begin the Jewish Organizing Initiative (JOIN),where he received community organizing training and began his career as a youth organizer at Dorchester Bay Youth Force. During his ten years as the Youth Force Director, Dan co-founded the Youth Jobs Coalition. Most recently, he has been interested in how to connect his spiritual path and his organizing work. Dan is currently exploring this and other key questions through his work at both Kirva and Episcopal City Mission (ECM). Dan is the lead organizer for Kirva. He focuses his time on program development and program support. He is especially excited about the work he is doing in partnership with Dayenu to build a curriculum that supports Jewish climate justice activists and the work he is doing as part of our Dismantling Racism from the Inside Out project to bring that curriculum to more Jewish social justice organizations. At ECM, Dan is the co-director of philanthropy and helped to launch a funding program that supports ECM grantees to access healing resources.
