Chief Officer of Program Support and Resource Development and Senior Vice President for Texas
WestCare Texas
San Antonio, Texas
Beverly Watts Davis is the Chief Officer for Resource Development and Program Support for WestCare Foundation and the Senior Vice President for Texas Operations. The WestCare Foundation operates in 17 States and 3 U.S. Territories to improve behavioral health, empower community residents, and reduce trauma and substance-abuse related community harm. She has over 40 years of experience in leading and managing public agencies, non-profit organizations, and private companies. Ms. Watts Davis has served in many leadership capacities to include service at the Senior Executive Service level of the federal government as the Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary and Director of The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) federal agency, the Executive Director of San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc. nonprofit agency, Senior Vice President of the United Way of San Antonio, State Director for the Corporation for National and Community Service, Adjunct Professor, State Coordinator for the Texans War on Drugs during the 1980s, and an elected official in Austin/Travis County, Texas for 11 years.
She served as an Advisory Board member of the National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention, the National Center for State Courts, Youth Crime Watch of America, Center for Public Policy & Political Studies, and One Star Foundation. She served on the Texas Task Force for State and Local Drug that funded the first 12,000 treatment beds in Texas prisons and was instrumental in developing and helping pass the Drug-free Communities Act legislation which has funded over 7000 communities to prevent substance abuse by youth and its related harm.
Ms. Davis has a Bachelor Degree from Trinity University with a triple major in Political Science, Social Sciences, and Economics and a Master Degree from Webster University in Human Resources Management.
Monday, April 15, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM CT