Sirona Recovery

As one of The Difference Principle’s two Co-Founders, Nick Sayner brings experience, education and a long list of list of accomplishments working in the criminal justice system and with nonprofit organizations in the County, State and Nation. Nick began his career with Wisconsin Community Services (WCS) as a volunteer in 1995. He worked in various capacities of the pretrial services program while at WCS, ending his tenure as manager of the release planning program in 2001.

Nick joined Justice 2000 in 2002 where he held multiple positions including release planning case manager and supervisor, forensic tracking case manager, program coordinator and held the position of Pretrial Services Program Director before taking the position as Division Director when Justice 2000 merged with Community Advocates in January, 2010. In addition to his many years in pretrial services with WCS and Justice 2000, Nick expanded his career path in the criminal justice field that encompasses his active involvement in Milwaukee County’s Community Criminal Justice Council (MCCJC).

In August of 2010 he was asked by the MCCJC executive committee to serve on the Evidence Based Decision Making policy team and was soon selected to co-chair a working sub-committee focusing on pretrial services. In 2010, the National Institute of Corrections selected Nick to take part in both the “Orientation for New Pretrial Executives,” and the “Short Term Technical Assistance Training Seminar,” certifying him to act as a NIC Pretrial Services Technical Assistance provider. In November 2011 Nick was elected to an at large board member position of the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (NAPSA) the professional membership organization for pretrial practitioners. In 2012, Nick was invited to take a position on the State of Wisconsin’s Problem Solving Court Subcommittee of the State Community Justice Council. Nick received his Master of Public Administration Degree with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management from the Keller Graduate School of Management in 2013. 

COPE SERVICES

In an effort to serve more individuals, COPE Hotline (now the COPE Line) recently joined a new behavior health organization, Sirona Recovery. Sirona Recovery’s mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals and strengthen communities through collaboration, shared resources, and multi-disciplinary problem-solving strategies. The COPE Line is just one of many programs in the Sirona network that provide a blend of substance use prevention and intervention services with a behavioral health focus on co-existing mental health disorders. www.sirona-recovery.org

Our name has changed, but our services have not! For over 40 years the COPE Line (formerly COPE Hotline) has provided a safe and confidential hotline that helps reduce the challenges many citizens face daily. The mission of the COPE Line is to offer emotional support and crisis intervention to those in need. The program is a 24-hour, 7-day a week anonymous and confidential telephone line that is free of charge and available to any resident in the following five counties: Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Waukesha, and Washington. With its twofold focus on emotional support and crisis intervention, its priority is on the health and wellbeing of residents in those five counties.

Listed below is information on Nick Sayner, CEO of Sirona Recovery who will be speaking on Friday morning, April 2, 2021.

Nick Sayner, MPA
CEO and Founder

• 22 years of Nonprofit Experience
• Founder of JusticePoint, Justice Initiatives Institute, Sirona Recovery and The Difference Principle
• 15 Years of nonprofit Upper Management Experience-
• Board Experience
• Charter Member of The Rotary Club of Mequon Milwaukee Afterhours
• National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (NAPSA) since 2012, currently serving as Board President
• Vice President of the Nonprofit Helping Hands Foundation
• Major Project Involvement
• Evidence Based Decision Making Initiative Statewide Policy Team (Wisconsin)
• National Institute of Corrections Pretrial Executives Network
• Born and Raised in Mequon, Homestead High School - Graduating Class of ‘96