Dr Frank Scarpati

President/Chief Executive Officer

Frank Scarpati has a Doctorate in Higher Education from the University of Southern California, a Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management from Pepperdine University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Columbia College. He is a certified Psychotherapist; a Licensed Independent Substance Abuse Counselor (LISAC); Master’s Level Addiction Counselor (State, National, and International); Compulsive Gambling Counselor; and Community College Teacher. Dr. Scarpati has also completed advanced training from the Center for Applied Science as a Relapse Prevention Specialist; the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as a Labor Relations Mediator; and a Reality Therapist Certification from the Los Angeles based Reality Therapy Institute.

Since February 1996, Dr. Scarpati has been the Chief Executive Officer of Community Bridges, an Arizona private non-profit whose programs include: 3 Inpatient Crisis Care/Medical Detoxification Centers (total of 80 beds) with over 20,000 crisis entries and 5,000 medical detoxification protocols annually; 3 residential treatment programs, including a 56-bed Residential Treatment Program for 24 pregnant women and 32 children, and 2 additional residential treatment programs for addiction and mental illness; 5 Intensive Outpatient/Relapse Prevention Treatment Programs that serve over 3,500 adults each year; 5 geographically separate Rural Stabilization Recovery Units (50 beds total); 2 Urban Stabilization Recovery Units (32 beds total); and a Prevention, Education, and Community Development program serving over 30,000 individuals and families each year.

Dr. Scarpati is the founder and Executive Director of the Education and Training Institute, a consulting organization whose focus is the prevention, education, and treatment of addiction. He has provided community development services to 25 cities within the State of Arizona; mediation services through the Arizona Attorney General’s Office; student support group facilitator training for administrators, teachers, and school psychologists throughout the United States, Canada, and Pacific Rim countries; and prevention program consultation services to police departments and school systems throughout the United States. Dr. Scarpati is also a consultant/trainer for the Federal Government’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT).

During his teaching career, he taught at both the university and community college levels; provided college courses to inmates of the Arizona State prison; charter school educational programs to youth gang members; and continues to provide human resource seminars on individual and organizational development, equal opportunity and treatment, sexual harassment, human relations, and ethics. Dr. Scarpati maintains a private practice limited to addiction treatment for high-risk, high profile individuals.

During his 27-year career in the United States Air Force, he gained considerable experience as a Combat Electronics Technician – 8 years (including two tours in Viet Nam); an Air Force Recruiter (4 years in High Schools and Colleges; and 4 years recruiting Doctors); upon graduation from Officer Training School, he became the Director of Human Service Programs for Military members and Clinical Director of hospital-based treatment programs (3 years in the U.S. and 3 years in Europe); and 5 years as the Regional Administrator of 18 chemical dependency treatment centers (inpatient and outpatient) located in 7 countries throughout the Pacific.