Scott earned a Master’s Degree from St. Louis University in Urban Affairs with an emphasis on criminal justice policy. He worked as a probation and parole officer in St. Louis, before being appointed to the position of Planning and Policy Specialist for the Department of Corrections in 1987. In 1992 he was appointed as the Department’s first Chief of Substance Abuse Services and subsequently as the Assistant Division Director over Substance Abuse Treatment Services. In 1997 Scott returned to the Board of Probation and Parole, where he served as Assistant Division Director and then Chief State Supervisor until his retirement in 2010. Currently, Scott provides consulting services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health, concentrating on behavioral health and recovery support services. For the past two years he has focused his services on recovery housing by facilitating the affiliation process with the National Alliance for Recovery Residences and implementation of a recovery housing accreditation process for the Missouri Coalition of Recovery Support Providers. He is also now Vice President of the Missouri Recovery Network, President of the Board of Directors for the Healing House and New Beginnings, Inc., and Secretary for the Koinonia House Board, both transitional housing programs in Jefferson City, Missouri.
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