Laylah is a Program Assistant at the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, where she focuses on the SNAP-Ed program. She finds herself most energized while coaching, facilitating, and mobilizing communities. Laylah is a Certified Life Purpose & Career Coach, Youth & Teen Mental Health First Aid Instructor, and published author who enjoys assisting individuals and organizations in discovering new paths and acquiring the most effective tools for identifying solutions, setting appropriate goals, and carrying out innovative plans of action.
Laylah is the founder of COPE Network, a social company that provides tools and services to adolescents and their families so that mental health issues and stigma are no longer a barrier to general health. She has developed and executed programming for mental health agencies, school districts, and hospitals with the goal of enhancing the general well-being of youth, recently incarcerated adults, and single moms.
Laylah attended Ursuline College's MBA program in Management and The University of Toledo's Healthcare Administration program. In 2022, she was named Youth Mental Health First Aid Instructor of the Year by Mental Health America of Northern Kentucky and Southwest Ohio and received the Valeria A. Harper Cultural Competence in Mental Health Award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness for her outstanding work with minority populations in the mental health field.