Leslie Beebe Receives NAMI Lexington Pioneer Award

Leslie Beebe, MSN, RN, senior lecturer, received the 2018 NAMI Lexington Pioneer Award. NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

Leslie Beebe received her BSN from Spalding College and her MSN from the University of Kentucky. She has been in the field of psychiatric nursing for the past 31 years. She has worked as a nurse care manager at several inpatient psychiatric units in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. Those units included adolescent, adult and substance abuse/detoxification. Beebe has been a psychiatric clinic instructor with the College of Nursing since 2000 and recently began lecturing psychiatric mental health nursing to undergraduate students. She is a member of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and was formerly a board member of the Lexington Dream Factory for 16 years. She also has been involved with the Nurses Assisting Nurses (NAN) project, where she provided individual and group work with chemically dependent nurses in Kentucky. Her areas of interest include working with the chronically mentally ill, the underserved, and the chemically dependent.