Meet Our Cohorts: JPS Network and Texas Wide

Hannah Bednar is an LMSW, LCDC, serving as Manager of Grants at JPS Health Network. She obtained her master’s from TCU in 2016. Her current role is managing grants focused on Substance Use Disorder and Maternal Health services. Her teams are all comprised of different levels of professionals who are integrated into the fabric of Primary Care at JPS. Her favorite pastime is spending time with her children and her husband at Lake Granbury.

Chelsea currently serves as a Family Intake Therapist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas for the Psychiatry Department. Chelsea’s role includes completing emergent psychiatric level-of-care assessments in the emergency department, providing provisional mental health diagnoses alongside the multi-disciplinary team, completing phone call referrals and intake assessments for outpatient mental health services, and serving as a liaison for psychological services throughout the entire medical network. Chelsea attended the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work at Baylor for her Master’s in Social Work, and was a participant in the Integrated Behavioral Health Certificate Program. She is originally from southern Alabama and attended the University of Alabama where she completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work with a minor in Psychology. Chelsea is currently attending Texas Woman’s University and completing her Master’s in Healthcare Administration in hopes to, in the future, utilize her social work skills at the administrative level, as well as at the individual micro level with patients in a pediatric healthcare facility. Outside of her career and academics, she enjoys college football (roll tide and sic’ em!), reading, thrift shopping, sewing, pilates, baking, trying new coffee shops, and spending quality time with her family and friends. 

Diana Castillon has been a dialysis social worker for Fresenius Kidney Care in Eagle Pass, Texas for almost 21 years. She obtained her BA and master's degrees from Baylor University. Her primary focus is helping End Stage Renal Disease patients that are on in-center hemodialysis, adjust to this life-sustaining treatment. In her role, she also assists with case management needs, addresses depression and anxiety concerns, and obstacles to treatment adherence. Her goal with participating in the clinical fellowship is to gain an understanding of the different mental health diagnoses, as well as to strengthen her clinical knowledge to better help her patients in adjusting to this treatment. In her time away from work, she enjoys exercising, reading, and spending time with friends and family, as well as her two cats. She occasionally competes in local BBQ cook-offs. 

Whitney Cunningham, LCSW, is a United States Army Veteran working for JPS Hospital on a five-year SAMHSA Grant Funded SBIRT program. She has been working in the mental health field for the past five years. She is in the second year of her PhD studies and is still working to determine her dissertation topic. She is a proud owner of 5 fur babies and three chickens, Molly, Lulu and Pearl. She hopes to learn more about integrated care in a primary medical home setting while in the Baylor Clinical Fellowship.

Lesley Goynes, LMSW, currently works as a Substance Use Disorder Clinical Specialist at JPS. She is part of an SBIRT grant looking to bridge the gap between primary care and substance use treatment. She conducts therapy with patients wanting to decrease their substance use and referral to treatment when needed. She also works at True Worth Clinic primarily with the homeless population. She enjoys reading, exercising and listening to podcasts. From this fellowship, she hopes to strengthen her clinical knowledge to better assist the patients that she sees each day.

Claudia Muñoz Trejo is an LMSW working at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. She works as a SUD Clinical Specialist in the Primary Health Clinic. Her role focuses on helping patients who consume alcohol or use substances. Her hobbies include: reading, binge watching shows on Netflix, traveling, and spending time with family and friends. She also loves spending time with her dog and cat.

Brett Spivey is an LMSW serving in Primary Care family medicine clinics in Waco, Hewitt, and Gatesville, TX with Baylor Scott & White. He obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Baylor University in 1996, 2003, and 2025. His primary focus is to employ advanced practice modalities in the development, implementation, and evaluation of treatment plans and provide plan of care interventions for resource and referral assistance, crisis intervention, prevention, education, patient advocacy, bereavement, therapy, and counseling. Over the past two years he has interned with Supportive Palliative Care in adult and pediatric in-patient settings. He is passionate about holistic collaborative care models where medical teams and social work intersect to improve outcomes for patients and work environments for colleagues. Brett is looking forward to learning more about how to care for his patients through Integrated Behavioral Health models as well as attaining his clinical licensure. In his time away from work, he enjoys spending time with his family somewhere outside, cooking, reading, or watching their favorite tv shows. 

Adriane Watters is an LCSW working as a Substance Use Disorder Clinician at a JPS Community Health Clinic in the Stop Six area of Fort Worth Texas. Her focus is to provide support to the clinic for patients who require substance use treatment and to serve as a patient navigator for those individuals. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, home design and decorating. Adriane would like to utilize the work that she does in this fellowship to build on her current skills.