Leadership - Access Services

Our Leadership

We are passionate about empowering individuals towards wholeness and belonging.

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President & Chief Executive Officer

Sue Steege

jess fenchel
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating & Program Officer

Jess Fenchel

Controller

Victoria Atkins

Vice President of Housing and Children’s Services

Debra Curtin

Vice President of Intellectual Disability & Autism

Abby Grasso

Vice President of Behavioral Health

Jessica Halpin

Vice President of Quality & Innovation

Meg Perillo

Vice President of Culture & Engagement

Andelyn Wasson

Board Chair

Percell Berry, Jr.

cindy bergvall
Board Treasurer

Cindy Bergvall

Board Member

Tom Miorelli

Board Member

Carol Johnson

Board Member

Steve Kirsch

Board Member

Tracy Burke

Board Member

Allena Moncrief

President & Chief Executive Officer

Sue Steege

Sue Steege is the Chief Executive Officer of Access Services, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting individuals with developmental disabilities, mental health needs, and other special needs. With over four decades of experience in the field, Sue began her career in 1981 while earning her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Eastern University. Since rejoining the field in 2002, she has served in key leadership roles at Access Services, where she is known for her commitment to high-quality, community-centered care.

Sue holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership from Cairn University and a certification in nonprofit management. She serves on the Board of Directors for North Care, a women’s clinic in Lansdale, PA, and for PAR (Pennsylvania Advocacy and Resources for Autism and Intellectual Disability), the state’s largest and most active association of intellectual disability and autism service providers.

Sue brings a passion for person-centered services, organizational excellence, and empowering others—both in her professional role and in the broader community.

 

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating & Program Officer

Jess Fenchel

Jessica Fenchel has been a transformative leader at Access Services for over 10 years, where she has helped launch and grow innovative programs across crisis services, forensics, schools, and homelessness. With a deep belief that help should be helpful and that people deserve our best, Jess has led cross-sector collaborations that integrate behavioral and physical health systems and has pioneered new models of partnership between law enforcement and crisis systems—contributing to reduced arrests for individuals in mental health crisis.

She holds degrees from Messiah College and LaSalle University, with additional training in Applied Behavior Analysis, Nonprofit Management, and Trauma Recovery. Jess currently serves as President of the MAX Association Board, Secretary of the NAMI Montgomery County Board, and as a member of the Pennsylvania Behavioral Health Council. A respected trainer and advocate statewide, Jess is also a loyal Buffalo Bills fan and enjoys time outdoors with her husband, three kids, and dog.

Controller

Victoria Atkins

Victoria brings to Access Services her 23 years of experience in the non-profit industry, including housing development, higher education and healthcare, moving from a senior accountant to serving as a controller over the years. She is driven by her passion to contribute to social change in our communities.

Victoria received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Temple University and her master’s degree in non-profit management from Eastern University. When she’s not actively working to make a difference in the community, Victoria loves to travel, work in her garden, tend to her house plants and spend quality time with her growing family.

Vice President of Housing and Children’s Services

Debra Curtin

In her role as Senior Director at Access Services, Debra has been significant in fundraising and advocacy to support new housing and homeless programs. Prior to this role she was the Director of the Homeless Street Outreach Program and was involved in the program’s initial startup and implementation. She was also connected to the design and startup of the Street Medicine Program in Pottstown, Montgomery County.

Debra’s expertise includes program design and development, fundraising, advocacy and leadership development. Her 15 years of experience in Human Services includes work in the Mental Health, Housing and Homelessness, and Children and Families service systems. Debra is passionate about integrated health, community service and collaboration across service systems.
She balances all of this with time spent running and with her wonderful husband, two children, and dogs.

Vice President of Intellectual Disability & Autism

Abby Grasso

Abby comes to Access with over 25 years of experience supporting individuals and families in the human services sector, including mental health, intellectual disabilities, autism, and substance use disorder services. Her experience has centered around leadership, program development, advocacy, and caring for people. Abby is committed to person-centered, trauma-informed care and believes that people and their experiences matter.

Abby earned her undergraduate degree from Cedar Crest College; her master’s in clinical social work from Marywood University and holds a certificate in Nonprofit Management from Lasalle University’s School of Nonprofit Management. She is a volunteer with Montgomery County’s Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) team and enjoys reading, live music, gardening, Philly sports, and spending time with people and animals that make her happy.

Vice President of Behavioral Health

Jessica Halpin

Jess Halpin has a passion for people; valuing growth, change, and the power of presence. In her Behavioral Health career, Jess has focused on developing programs and advocating for people to have the ability to grow and move forward in their goals. Jess comes to her role with a background in clinical work, higher education, and program development. She is excited to continue to support Behavioral Health programs to serve people well in the communities where they work.

Jess is an LCSW who received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from University of Pennsylvania, has training in trauma-informed care, is a Certified Psych Rehab Practitioner, and received a certificate from the Harvard Business School Online CORe program. Jess would rather hear about your goals than talk about herself, loves being outside, and is at her best with a cup of coffee in hand.

Vice President of Quality & Innovation

Meg Perillo

For over 25 years, Meg has delivered competent services collaboratively, with passion, enthusiasm, high integrity, and a commitment to serving the community – keeping focus on quality, driving results, and relationship building at the forefront.

For the last 9 years, Meg has worked as sole proprietor of a successful community behavioral health consulting business. A community leader experienced in Finance and Operations, small and large-scale Project Management – Meg brings to the table a wide variety of cross-system management and clinical experience within government, public and private sectors across Human Services, Education, Behavioral Health, and Criminal Justice systems.

Meg received her bachelor’s in education from the University of Tennessee and a master’s in counseling from Arcadia University. She is fluent in American Sign Language (and you will often see her talking with her hands). Since 2018, Meg has served as Treasurer and Finance Chair on the Board of Directors for a K-8 Charter school serving 700 kids in Philadelphia.

Meg enjoys spending time with her family – on the water, on the soccer field, or on the basketball court. She also loves the outdoors and getting lost in her backyard which borders the Wissahickon Valley Park in Northwest Philadelphia.

Vice President of Culture & Engagement

Andelyn Wasson

Andelyn has a passion for helping organizations share their story in meaningful ways. With 15 years of experience in marketing, communications, and relationship management, Andelyn is excited to bring this passion to Access Services.

Before joining the Access Services team in 2021, Andelyn served on the leadership team of an international nonprofit, overseeing their US operations. Prior to that, Andelyn spent seven years in the corporate sector, working as a Communication Consultant for Vanguard.

Andelyn holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a master’s in Business Administration (MBA).

Andelyn serves as a Trustee at Chelten Church, enjoys travel and experiencing new places and cultures.

Board Chair

Percell Berry, Jr.

Percell is an Executive Information Technology Leader with 24 years of leadership, and more than 30 years of IT experience. He has expertise in infrastructure, data center management, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, application development, service desk and end user support. Percell’s strengths also include strategy, business transformation, MA&D, program and change management. His proven track record with delivering and managing diverse corporate systems solutions without losing his strong customer focus has made him successful. Percell has led large-scale global IT outsourcing and insourcing initiatives to align with business goals and cost objectives.  He is highly effective with both building and maintaining business relationships.

Prior to joining NiSource as Vice President of Information Technology in October of 2022, Percell led his own independent consultant business for 7 years. He held Chief Information Officer consulting roles for several companies.  Before opening his IT consulting business, he was a Vice President of Information Technology for Arris International PLC. He led the corporate global service delivery strategy and support.  Percell had a long career with Motorola before joining Arris International, where he served in several IT senior leadership and executive roles.

Percell attended Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and completed his study of Electronic Engineering Technology, and attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for Industrial Management and Applied Engineering.

He and his wife Angelina currently reside in Collegeville, PA. They enjoy spending time with their family. Both are active in their church and servant leaders for the Gifted to Serve Ministry, which prepares and serves meals for those in need in connection with the Chosen 300 Ministries. Percell is an avid golfer and enjoys playing every chance he gets. Over the last 5 years, Percell has served on the Board of Directors at Access Services as Secretary and assumed the role of Chairperson in 2023.

Board Treasurer

Cindy Bergvall

Cindy is a Director at the accounting firm of Bee, Bergvall & Company and a strategic consultant with the firm’s Catalyst Center for Nonprofit Management. As a consultant, Cindy has provided a variety of services to strengthen nonprofit’ strategic planning, financial modeling, key performance indicator development, due diligence and facilitation for nonprofit mergers, and training.

She provides training for a variety of nonprofit and other industry conferences both locally and nationally. Cindy also teaches on Nonprofit Financial Leadership as an Adjunct Faculty for Cairn University’s graduate program.

Cindy serves on the lead team for the Philadelphia Gospel Movement and is a member of the C12 Group. She is active in the Pennsylvania Institute of CPA’s, serving on the Board and several committees. She is also part of the Business Advisory Group for the Community Development Corporation, Called to Serve.

Cindy and her husband serve with the Youth Group at Trinity Community Church. They also serve with International Students Incorporated, working with students at Penn and other Philadelphia campuses.

Board Member

Tom Miorelli

Tom currently serves as Director of Strategy & Integration, Animal Health Global Supply Chain Management for Merck & Co, Inc.  His major responsibilities include supply chain integration of new product, site and company acquisitions and long-term capacity planning for Animal Health operations. Tom has worked for Merck for more than 33 years. He has a degree in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University and has completed master’s level coursework in Organizational Leadership at Cairn University. Tom also previously served as an officer in the PA National Guard Military Police Corps.

Tom is an active member of Calvary Church of Souderton where he has served on the International Ministries Team for over 17 years and has led multiple adult and student service trips throughout North and South America. He is also a board member for International Therapy Outreach Teams which serves students with disabilities and their families in Haiti.

Tom and his wife, Theresa, reside in Montgomery County. They have six adult children and are enjoying being grandparents to three grandchildren.

Board Member

Carol Johnson

Board Member

Steve Kirsch

Steve currently works as Bethesda Director for SeeJesus Ministry. Bethesda’s mission is to equip the church to disciple people with intellectual disabilities through creating adapted curriculums and training teachers how to use them. Prior to retirement from the corporate world, Steve was the CFO for Colorcon, Inc., a Global excipient manufacturer to the pharmaceutical industry. After thirty-four years at Colorcon, Steve worked at its parent company Berwind Corporation for six years as Vice President of Finance until 2017.

Steve has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Drexel University and an MBA from Temple University. Steve is a member of Calvary Church in Souderton, PA where he serves as a special needs sunday school teacher and small group Bible study leader. He has served on the Board of Northcare Women’s Clinic, Deep Run Valley Sports Association, and sits on the Finance committee for SeeJesus Ministry.

Steve and his wife Claudia have been married for 39 years and reside in Bucks County. They have four adult children and two grandchildren.

Board Member

Tracy Burke

Tracy is currently employed in a Vendor Management and Governance role at CSL Behring supporting the clinical trial supply chain. Prior to this he worked in numerous roles over a 28 year period at Merck spanning operations within quality, site support, technology, engineering, and manufacturing. He has a degree in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Following VMI Tracy served on active duty as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps where he participated in several deployments, including a combat tour to Fallujah, Iraq in 2005.

Tracy has been involved in numerous ministries over the years including Christian Service Brigade, deacon board, and security operations. Tracy resides in Souderton, Pennsylvania where he is also the Borough Council President. Tracy and his wife, Dawn, are the proud parents of 4 adult children and eight grandchildren.

Board Member

Allena Moncrief

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