Christin Santiago, is a Recreational Therapist, with 20 years-experience of working with children and adolescents with trauma, neuropsychiatric diagnosis and sexual harmful behaviours. She is the Director of Recreational Therapy for the Whitney Academy in Massachusetts. In her senior role at Whitney, Christin has developed many programs using innovative therapeutic activities in order to assist adolescents develop their internal and emotional skills through activity, movement, and clinically sound strategies that assist in them managing their trauma symptoms. Christin also has an international reputation as a skilful and engaging trainer, having both trained and supervised across the USA, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia and the UK. Christin also coaches across a multitude of (seven) sports as a part of the Special Olympics of Massachusetts. The program offers her clients the opportunity to develop their skills through traditional sports as well as to build relationships outside the Academy. In 2016 she was chosen as the Coach of the Year for Special Olympics of Massachusetts, and in that same year was one of 16 coaches to be considered for National Coach of the Year. In 2018 she was selected as the Head Athletics Coach for Special Olympics of Massachusetts to participate in the National USA Games in Seattle, Washington. And in 2019 she was inducted into the Special Olympics Hall of Fame. Christin is a NAPN Advisory Board Member, and is the Chair of Board of Directors for the Skills Clinic in Sweden.
