Stanley Covington has a Master of Special Education from Coppin State College, Baltimore, MD; a Bachelor of Science, Criminal Justice, Coppin State College, Baltimore, MD, and studied Industrial Psychology at the University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD.

He has over twenty years of successful and progressive experience in diversified areas of program development, business development, community resource, training management and related aspects of administration.  He has a demonstrated record of developing and administering behavioral health care programs that have achieved professional recognition. Stanley has excellent communication and leadership skills with a proven ability to motivate individuals on all levels. He is results-oriented, well-organized, and experience with interfacing and negotiating with government and private agencies.

Stanley is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Alternative Solutions for Youth, LLC (ASY), Washington, DC - A private behavioral health care organization which operates a 32-bed youth residential treatment program, an 8-bed youth shelter, a community-based child, youth, and family intensive psychiatric outpatient center, and a therapeutic afterschool program.

His accomplishments include

• Development of a multi-million dollar behavioral Healthcare organization for youth and families in the District of Columbia.
• Since 2000, created full and part-time employment for more than 200 people from the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
• Development of a youth residential treatment program from the ground up that has provided treatment services to more than 100 youth (and families) in the District of Columbia
• Development and supervision of the operation of an Outpatient and Intensive Outpatient Program that has successfully provided treatment services to over 300 children, adolescents and parents in the District of Columbia.
• Founder and operation of a therapeutic afterschool program that provided mental health afterschool services to 50-60 children and adolescents a day.
• Successfully maintained ASY's three-year CARF Accreditation (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities).
• Vice President, Community Development 2/1997 -11/1999
• During employment with the Psychiatric Institute of Washington, Washington DC (A private 80-bed psychiatric hospital in Northwest DC that provides inpatient acute psychiatric treatment to children, adolescents, adults and seniors), he developed outpatient programs in Fairfax, Virginia and the District of Columbia for the hospital as sidelight programs; assisted the hospital with the design and development of a successful adolescent program for adjudicated youth in the DC area, and created and successfully obtained the hospital's first drug court contract for adults in the District of Columbia.