Taylor Lacroix, LCSW, LADC-I

Taylor Lacroix, LCSW, LADC-I is the Clinical Service Director of Community Services at Open Sky Community Services in Worcester, MA. In this role, she oversees 24 community-based programs assisting over 2,000 individuals and families experiencing justice involvement, homelessness, substance use and mental health disorders, and other social determinants of health needs. Taylor was a leader in the development of the Behavioral Health for Justice Involved pilot program with MassHealth and Trial Courts in 2019 which now has statewide contracts and Medicaid benefit coverage (CSP-JI). During Spring 2020, she helped lead the "Outreach Connect Refer" model to support incarcerated individuals being released during the uptick of COVID-19. Most recently, Taylor has been a leader in the development and implementation of the state's first Department of Correction funded after incarceration support service, Community Compass at Open Sky. She has been working for non-profit human service agencies in the community, incarcerated settings, and residential settings since 2013. In 2022, Taylor was recognized as 40 Under Forty by Worcester Business Journal.