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Daisy Berbeco

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Daisy Berbeco
Daisy Berbeco
Member of the Vermont House of Representatives
from the Chittenden-21 district
Assumed office
January 4, 2023
Serving with Taylor Small
Preceded byHal Colston
Personal details
BornAlaska
Political partyDemocratic
ResidenceWinooski, Vermont
Alma materSonoma State University
University of Sussex

Daisy Berbeco is an American politician from Vermont. She has been a Democratic member of the Vermont House of Representatives for the Chittenden-21 District since 2023.[1] Berbeco is a member of the House Committee on Health Care.

Berbecos career has focused on mental health and substance use advocacy, policy and practice improvement. She spent six years at the National Council for Mental Wellbeing, a Washington, DC–based member association that represents more than one million mental health and substance use treatment providers. Berbeco is a former mental health policy adviser[2] at the State of Vermont.

She has served as the Secretary for the Finance & Policy Division of the National Association of Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and was a member of Vermont's State Substance Misuse Prevention and Oversight Council and the Vermont Suicide Prevention Coalition.

In 2023 Berbeco was appointed to the Executive Board of the Urban Institutes Vermont Prison Reform and Innovation Network as well as the Vermont Judiciary Commission on Mental Health and the Courts and the Vermont Agency of Human Services Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Steering Committee.

In 2024 Berbeco joined the National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP), Behavioral Health, Aging, and Disability Steering Committee and the Behavioral Health Committee of the Conference of Chief Justices and the Conference of State Court Administrators. [3]

She is also a Justice of the Peace in Winooski, Vermont (2022-) and on the Advisory Board of the Hopi Foundation's peer-run Substance Use Prevention Center on the Hopi Reservation, Arizona (2019-). [4]

Electoral History

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2022

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Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden-21 district Democratic primary, 2022[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Progressive Taylor Small (incumbent) 1,011 53.0
Democratic Daisy Berbeco 883 46.3
Democratic Write-ins 13 0.7
Total votes 1,907 100.0
Vermont House of Representatives Chittenden-21 district general election, 2022[6]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Daisy Berbeco 1,813 43.6
Progressive/Democratic Taylor Small (incumbent) 1,735 41.7
Independent Jordan Matte 575 13.8
Write-in Write-ins 38 0.9
Total votes 4,161 100.0


References

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  1. ^ "Daisy Berbeco". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  2. ^ "Daisy Berbeco announces candidacy for Winooski State Representative". Community News Service. 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  3. ^ "Daisy Berbeco Experience and Results". daisyberbeco.com/. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  4. ^ "Daisy Berbeco Experience and Results". daisyberbeco.com/. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
  5. ^ "2022 August Primary Election Detailed Results". Vermont Secretary of State.
  6. ^ "2022 General Election Results". Vermont Secretary of State.
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