Bill Spinks, M.Div. LADC1

Director of Prevention & Intervention Services

Bill has been associated with Bay State Community Services (BSCS) since its inception in 1991.  Previously for 15 years, he was the Executive Director of the South Shore Council on Alcoholism (SSCA), and he was instrumental in helping forge the merger of SSCA with the other four agencies that formed BSCS. Bill also previously worked for the Washingtonian Center for Addiction as the Director of Acute Treatment Services and for the Boston Alcohol Safety Action Project, the first federally funded program that led to the passage of the new DUI law in Massachusetts.

Bill oversees the BSCS innovative prevention programming for underage drinking and opioid abuse. He also administers BSCS intervention services including the certified Batterers Intervention and Generalized Violence Program and the largest Driver Alcohol Education and Second Offender Aftercare Program in Massachusetts.

Bill has served on various local boards and committees over the years and currently is involved with the Association of Behavioral Health Care Driver Alcohol Education Directors/ Second Offenders Aftercare Committee, and the Impact Quincy Coalition.

 

After attending Boston College Bill received a Master’s Degree in Divinity from St. John’s School of Theology in Massachusetts. He has been a Certified Employee Assistance Professional and is currently a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC 1) and a Certified Batterers Intervention Program Instructor.