Kelly Fischetti is a Certified Addiction Counselor who has worked in the field for the last 10 years.
Currently, Kelly works at an outpatient facility, White Oak Wellness, where she works directly with local inpatient rehabs to get people into higher levels of care on a daily basis. Kelly also does community outreach, including providing resources to people experiencing homelessness
Addiction has directly impacted Kelly’s life. Helping people who are struggling and also ending the stigma around the disease has been her passion for as long as she can remember.
Although she works in the field of addiction, Kelly said she doesn’t consider it “work because it doesn’t feel like work to me. I would be helping and fighting for this community regardless of my current position.”
She is committed to fighting for all of those who we have lost to the disease (including her beautiful cousin Toni Voithoffer), and for everyone out there who is ready or not quite ready to get help yet. Going forward, she will continue to educate the community to end the stigma around substance use disorders, harm reduction, and all things mental illness.
Kelly’s nomination for this award said “anybody would be lucky to have her in their corner.”