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Yerachmiel Stern is the Executive Director of Pesach Tikvah. Before being appointed Executive Director, he served for ten years as the Borough Park Clinics Director. In that role, he helped Pesach Tikvah to build up a rich and effective group of resources in all capacities including psychiatry.

Directing the Borough Park Clinics was of particular importance to Mr. Stern because he grew up in Borough Park. When he began his tenure as Clinical Director, the Borough Park, Kensington, and Flatbush areas lacked affordable mental health care. He successfully brought excellent, sophisticated mental health care to those underserved neighborhoods.

Mr. Stern completed both his graduate and undergraduate degrees at Touro University. He joined Pesach Tikvah as an intern and weekend counselor at the agency's Community Residence. In his second year of internship, he proved to be an asset to the agency: Mr. Stern is bilingual in Yiddish and English and had a talent for treating children and adults of all denominations and backgrounds. He was particularly adept at treating children and worked as a school-based clinician for three of his early years at Pesach Tikvah.

Though he came from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy training background, Mr. Stern pursued training in other modalities including Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic, and Sand Tray Therapy for children. His mastery of multiple modes of psychotherapy has served as a model for Pesach Tikvah's clinicians, many of whom pursue trainings beyond what their universities provided.

As Pesach Tikvah enters its 40th year, Mr. Stern is guiding the organization toward a future of excellence in mental health care and developmental disability services.