Kevin McEneaney took charge of clinical programming for Phoenix House as Senior Vice President, Director of Clinical Services in 1983. He became chief operating officer in 1995 and was named Executive Vice President the following year. A key leader in the drug abuse treatment field, he served as president of Therapeutic Communities of America, an organization representing 60 treatment agencies with more than 500 programs in the United States and Canada, from 1998 to 2002.

An early graduate of Phoenix House, Mr. McEneaney has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University in New York and a certificate in public relations management from New York University. In 1993, he took part in the "Achieving Breakthrough Service" program of the Harvard Business School's Executive Education Program.

Mr. McEneaney started his clinical career in the early 1970s. He developed a pilot community drug abuse clinic in Boston, for Phoenix House, working with Tufts University and the New England Medical Center. While Director of Public Relations for Phoenix House, from 1972 to 1983, his activities were not limited to communications. In 1979, he developed the Phoenix House Drug Education and Prevention program that reached more than 40,000 students and several thousand parents in private and public schools throughout the country. An outgrowth of this prevention program was IMPACT, the Phoenix House drug intervention program for drug-troubled teenagers and their parents.

In 1990, Mr. McEneaney was instrumental in bringing Phoenix House treatment programs to New York State's Marcy Correctional Facility and the Taconic Correctional Facility for women in Bedford. He served as a consultant to the New York City Board of Education's special project to develop a high school for students with emotional and drug abuse problems. Mr. McEneaney also served as a member of the Greater New York Coalition on Drug Abuse, the New York Sate Task Force on Drug Abuse, and the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth.

In 2000, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services named Mr. McEneaney to its National Treatment Plan Initiative Panel and its Reducing Stigma and Changing Attitudes Panel. The same year, as president of TCA, he opened the conference on "New Directions in Therapeutic Community Research," sponsored jointly by TCA and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Mr. McEneaney has lectured on the issues of drug abuse throughout the United States and abroad and often appears on television and radio. At the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities Year 2000 Conference, he was honored for his leadership in the treatment field.