Lyon new Early Intervention director

The Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Community Services Board has named Elizabeth “Liz” Lyon as the new director of Early Intervention Services, effective Jan. 1. She succeeds Kathy Phillips, who is retiring. Lyon will supervise both the Rural Infant Services Program (RISP) and the Healthy Families Program, both based in Urbanna.

Lyon brings with her 20-plus years of clinical experience, program development, administrative knowledge and advocacy educative services from Henrico County to the region. In the past decade, she has focused her therapeutic skills by supporting families and children within the local schools, domestic violence shelters, early intervention programs and outpatient rehabilitation assistance services.