For 30+ years Julia Ojeda has been providing solution-based leadership training and consultation in the education, healthcare, and social services sectors, as an experienced facilitator, trainer, coach, networker, and change agent. Her work is rooted in an equitable, people-centered, integrated approach to progressive change, system-wide reform, strategic management, and organizational development. From 2013-2023, she managed Peer Recovery Support Services for the Massachusetts (MA) Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Addiction Services (BSAS). She was instrumental in the growth of Peer Recovery Support Centers in MA, which grew from 5 in 2023, to what is now 39 by 2024.
She created the first statewide Peer Recovery Education Program with 12 curriculums and 19 facilitators in recovery, where over 7000 MA residents participated. She championed the first deaf/hard of hearing peer recovery coach team in the state, possibly the country and managed MOAR (MA Organization for Addiction Recovery) for ten years.
As a person in sustained, long-term recovery and an active member of the recovery community, including the national Habla Hispana recovery network, she is a champion for the peer recoveryworkforce movement and the development of Recovery Oriented Systems of Care promoting Prevention, Intervention and Treatment efforts locally and nationally.