Ms. Smith-Butterwick has been working with families in the state of Michigan for 20 years, and within the field of addiction and mental health services for 15 years.  She was the Women’s Treatment Specialist for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for, providing oversight and technical assistance for women, youth and family substance use and co-occurring disorder treatment programs, and currently services as the Manager for the Prevention and Treatment Section in the Office of Recovery Oriented Systems of Care.  Ms. Smith-Butterwick has implemented standards for women’s substance use disorder programming within the state, and worked closely with the state child welfare agency to ensure policy reflects process within both systems.  In addition, Ms. Smith-Butterwick has implemented Enhanced Women’s Services programming within the state to support the needs of women with substance exposed infants, and is currently working with providers to implement a project to reduce the effects of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.  She has coordinated the State Youth Treatment Planning and Implementation grant and continues to provide oversight of the grant activities, in addition to providing technical assistance and oversight to the Opioid STR grant.  She has contributed to Michigan’s technical advisory on trauma informed care and services and worked to expand education to the substance use disorder field.  Ms. Smith-Butterwick holds a Master’s of Social Work from Michigan State University, and gives back to the program through field supervision of social work interns.