Robert R. Detore

Board of Trustee

Robert R. Detore has been Chief Executive Officer of Turning Point, Inc. since 2015. Turning Point, Inc. is a nationally accredited and state licensed inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment organization located in Paterson, NJ. He is the founder and CEO of Correctional Health Services, Inc. (CHS) from 1989-2001. CHS was the major provider of healthcare services to seventeen county Juvenile and adult correctional facilities and private correctional facilities in New Jersey from 1989 -2001. CHS was acquired by Prison Health Service, Inc., the largest correctional health services corporation in the US.

He was a former Board member of Community Education Centers, LLC., Mellon Bank FSB, Cathedral Healthcare Services, Inc., East Orange General Hospital, Wynoma M. Lipman Child Advocacy Center, and since 2011, the President of the Board of Trustees of The Robert Treat Academy Charter School, operating on two campuses with 700 students in Newark, New Jersey and since 2020 a Member of the Board of Trustees of The Bridge, Inc., Adolescent and Adult counseling center, West Caldwell. In December 2023 he was appointed by Governor Phil Murphy to the Opioid Recovery & Remediation Advisory Council.

He is a graduate of George Washington University and holds master’s degrees from New York University and Seton Hall University. He served twenty years in elective office, most recently as the Mayor of Verona Township