Mission & Data Driven

Chelsea Hughes is a native of the Jefferson City area, currently residing in the beautiful, small town of Bonnots Mill, Missouri. Chelsea earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Lincoln University and then her Master of Business Administration with an Emphasis in Accounting from Columbia College. While pursuing her degrees, Chelsea worked for a small, privately owned business where she found her passion for small business operations and accounting. Chelsea then worked in state government for a brief time before realizing she wanted to get back into the private sector. In 2016, she took an opportunity with the Missouri Behavioral Health Council, where she is the Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration. While her primary role is centered around the Council’s finances, she enjoys participating in various other operations and events at the Council. Chelsea has been part of the Council’s CCBHC journey and has aided in the financial reimbursement model and the management of technical assistance and support that are critical to the success of CCBHCs. Chelsea currently sits on the National Council of Mental Wellbeing’s Finance and Audit Committee, which is a great honor. Getting to play even a small role in the Council’s mission and seeing everything come together from a project, financial, and outcomes perspective is one of the most rewarding parts of the job. In her free time, Chelsea can usually be found enjoying life on the golf course or sitting around a warm campfire with her husband and two small children, Wyatt and Whitley.

Born and raised in Missouri, Katie Horstman grew up in Wardsville and graduated from Lincoln University, earning her degree in Business Administration. From there, she began pursuing a career in service at the Missouri Retired Teachers Association. Then, she joined the Missouri Behavioral Health Council, where she managed the Council’s first annual conference. The Missouri Behavioral Health Conference is a first-class conference that has grown exponentially in attendance and has expert speakers. As the Executive Vice President of Education and Events, Katie and her team now host several other large conferences and regional events around the state, as well as manage and support evidence-based training, trauma, and zero suicide learning collaboratives, onsite learnings at the Council’s training facility, and provide continuing education credits. Katie gives her job two enthusiastic thumbs up and enjoys molding the training programs for the Council. Katie and her husband have two daughters and enjoy farm life in the booming metropolis of New Bloomfield, Missouri.