Dana Hendrickson is the Central Regional Resource Coordinator for Maryland’s Commitment to Veterans.

Dana provides behavioral health resource coordination to veterans and their families in Baltimore City and Baltimore, Harford, Cecil, Howard, Carroll and Anne Arundel Counties. She has successfully completed the ‘Serving Our Veterans Behavioral Health Certificate’ program, with coursework focusing on military orientation and specific issues affecting veterans and their families. 

Dana is also a proud military spouse, with a husband serving active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. They have two sons. Combined experience from both her personal and professional lives gives Dana a rich background in providing human services to a number of populations. 

She began her work in Delaware as a family services specialist with child protective services.  She later worked as a program director with the YMCA Resource Center, where she taught life skills education for the YMCA Resource Center’s Back on Track Program, which served adolescents on probation within the Delaware juvenile justice system.

Following a move back to Maryland, she spent eight years providing case management and supportive services to inmates of the Anne Arundel County Detention Center, working with adult males on work release, in intake and men and women on home detention.  She is also an adjunct faculty member in the psychology department at Baltimore City Community College.

Dana received her bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Delaware and her master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Towson University. She resides in Pikesville, MD.