Pam Pearce, CRM
Executive Director

Pam Pearce is dedicated to helping individuals and communities prevent substance use concerns by ensuring they have the information and tools needed to make informed decisions and thrive. Passionate about advancing primary prevention, she works to raise awareness of how early education and support can change lives and strengthen communities. Pam serves on the Prevention Committee of the Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission, the executive board of the Clackamas County Mental Health and Addiction Council, and the Oregon Alliance to Prevent Suicide. She is a founding member of the Oregon Coalition of Prevention Professionals and co-founder of Harmony Academy, Oregon’s first recovery high school. Pam also helped lead the passage of Oregon’s groundbreaking prevention legislation, HB 3321, by educating all who would listen on the importance of establishing a framework for a statewide primary prevention strategy.

Steve Burch
Board President

Steve and Stacey are native Texans who moved to Oregon several years ago to begin a new chapter in their lives. Their three children have all been students in the West Linn School District. Steve is a Certified Financial Planner with View Pointe, and Stacey is thankful to be able to stay at home to wrangle the children and their crazy schedules. They are active in the community, have served on PTO boards as facilitators for Financial Peace classes, regularly volunteer in various positions, and have been known to attend a city council meeting or two. They are honored to be a part of the prevention work being done in their community. Like many others, their lives have been touched by substance use, and they look forward to working with other community members to bring about awareness and positive change.

Ryan Opsahl

Ryan Opsahl is the Director of Clinical Outreach for Crestview Recovery Services. Ryan manages and maintains various marketing processes and is responsible for developing and maintaining referral sources nationally while generating referrals from clinicians and other sources. Ryan has worked in the addiction treatment field since 2010 and is passionate about helping guide individuals down a path to successful long-term recovery. He uses his experience as a recovering alcoholic/addict to help referral sources access any helpful resources that will assist their clients in achieving growth, change, and wholeness.

Lee Stewart
Treasurer

Lee Stewart is an art historian who has taught Art History part-time while raising her three sons. She graduated from Princeton University and received her PhD in Art History from Columbia University. Originally from the East Coast, she moved to Oregon with her husband in 1992 and taught at Portland State University and the Oregon College of Art and Craft. 

Lee is alarmed by the increasing normalization of cannabis use among teens in Oregon. With cannabis commercialization, youth perception of risk has decreased while their actual risk has increased exponentially with the creation of high-potency products. She, therefore, seeks to educate on the harms to youth from cannabis and to advocate for more primary prevention and protective policies. She is a certified parent educator through Johnny's Ambassadors and a member of the Parent Action Network of Smart Approaches to Marijuana. In addition to Community Living Above, she is on the Big Village prevention coalition board. She sat on the Community Impact Subcommittee of CPOT (Cannabis Policy Oversight Team) and is a member of the OLCC's Advisory Committee.

Anne Marie Lowe
Operations Director/Manager

Anne Marie is a career financial director, bringing over 20 years of banking and nonprofit management experience to local nonprofits. Her financial expertise includes working as a commercial banker in Portland, providing a range of financial products and services to a commercial banking client base. Anne Marie has worked in the nonprofit sector throughout her career, bringing expertise in relationship and cash management to the nonprofit industry. Her nonprofit experience includes advancing organizations through development and fundraising initiatives, fiscal management, budgeting, grant writing, workshop creation and facilitation, event management, and strategic planning for various nonprofit missions within the Portland metropolitan area.

Lowe holds a degree in International Business from Linfield College. Anne Marie, an active West Linn community member, is an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Portland, where she served as president from 2010 to 2011. Her other community involvement includes serving on the Salvation Army's Advisory Board and the Royal Rosarians.

Garth Anderson

Garth is an Oregon native and a person in long-term recovery. He is the Director of Outreach at Atlas Treatment Center of Portland and has been a recovery peer mentor at 4D Recovery Centers. Growing up in West Linn, he experienced the problems associated with teenage drug and alcohol use and came out the other side in recovery. He joined CLA to see how he could make a difference in the community in which he grew up.

Coalition Members

Community sector representatives address local youth substance use. As a coalition, they are motivated by local conditions to implement solutions that create a safe, healthy, and drug-free community.

Steve Burch, View Point Wealth

Ellen McMillan, CLA Advisor

Rosemary Reynolds, Retired KXL Radio

Nalini Velutrein, MD

Sergeant Oddis Rollins, West Linn Police Department

Jennifer Epstein, Song for Charlie

Robin Henderson, PsyD, Chief Executive, Behavioral Health, Providence, and Chief Clinical Officer, Work2BeWell

Ryan Opsahl, Regional Director of Clinical Outreach, Crestview Recovery and Bayview Recovery

Representative Jules Walters, District 37, Oregon, Former Mayor of West Linn

Kathleen Self, Riverwest Church

Lee Stewart, Parent, Substance Use Prevention Advocate

Cheryl Wilson, LSW, West Linn Wilsonville School District

Cadence Cox, CLA Board Member, Student Representative

Brian McCrady, Drug and Alcohol Prevention Specialist, Children, Family & Community Connections, Clackamas County

David Goode, West Linn Rotary

Garth Swanson, CLA Board Member

Kelly Sloop, Community Member, School District Board Member

Priscilla Koczian, Young Life West Linn

Tracy Swartley, Parent, West Linn Community