Sherry L. Hoover, MSW, joined The Healy⁺ Group in 2023 as Project Specialist. In this role, she provides exemplary service to every client from the proposal stage through project completion, ensuring the success of each partner engagement. Her extensive duties also include finance support, conference planning, and onboarding for new employees and associates. Immediately prior to Healy⁺, Sherry served in sales and customer support for the Professional Crisis Management Association, where she worked with universities, K-12, and the health care sector. 

Sherry’s deep and rich experience in criminal justice programming informs her work at Healy⁺ as she coordinates projects pertaining to campus safety, security, and policing. Currently, she serves as an appointed member of the Criminal Justice Community Engagement Task Group, part of the Mecklenburg County, NC, Safety and Justice Challenge Initiative. As a Task Group member, she provides recommendations to the North Carolina Criminal Justice Advisory Group and collaborates with criminal justice stakeholders. Formerly, as Program Director for the Chesterfield County Sherriff’s Office in Virginia, Sherry collaborated with county and state stakeholders to develop an evidence-based innovative program for substance-dependent program participants. At Offender Aid and Restoration, a community-based nonprofit organization, she provided pre- and post-release program services to incarcerated adults. She delivered case management services for re-entry planning and provided increased stability for participants’ release.

Sherry also provided strong project management skills to Rehabilitative Services and Vocational Placement, Inc., where she provided vocational career coaching, counseling, and continued employment-focused support for high-functioning neuro-divergent and intellectually disabled adults. In this role, she ensured meticulous documentation to meet government requirements.

Sherry holds a Master of Social Work in Social Work Administration, Planning, and Policy Practice from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is also a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Family Studies.