MORGAN 
LAURA 
BATHGATE
DERIGGI

Laura has been with Community Behavioral Health since 1999 beginning as the Director 
Morgan Bathgate is a college student at Messiah University studying Psychology. She 
graduated in 2020 from Mechanicsburg Area Senior High where she also played water 
of Clinical Management responsible for the oversight of behavioral health services. She is 
polo, swam competitively, played violin, maintained a 4.0 GPA and took six Advanced 
currently the Director of Integrated Clinical Consultation Services for Community Behavioral 
Placement (AP) classes.
Health and the Department of Human Services. In that role, Laura is responsible for program 
development, integrated service planning, training and clinical consultation. Her role with DHS 
She was diagnosed with Autism when she was 3 years old. Morgan likes to remind people 
includes assessing behavioral health needs of dependent and delinquent children, youth and 
that she may think differently, learn differently and at times struggle to focus—but she 
families, program development, clinical consultation to the Courts and consultation to the new 
embraces her extraordinary abilities. She is different—but not less.
Community Umbrella Agencies. She specializes in case planning and program development 
for young adults involved in multiple systems of care.
Morgan describes herself as family oriented, artsy, techie, bookish, musical and 
adventurous. She loves nature, animals, video games and drawing.
Laura is originally from Pittsburgh. Prior to her move to Philadelphia, she was responsible for 
planning and program development for behavioral health services, assisted in developing a 
unified system of care for clients with serious mental illness and mental retardation, directed 
the Act 152 drug and alcohol managed care program, and worked in private managed care. 
Laura’s experience includes both private and public sector human services and encompasses 
every disability area and system. She is an adjunct professor at Alvernia University since 2000 
teaching various courses in behavioral health and human services, and most recently in the 
Undergraduate Social Work Program.

She is also adjunct professor at West Chester University and Alvernia University, teaching in 
the MSW Programs.Laura is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work 
in 1989. She was awarded the Social Work Alumni Fellowship and the Student Leadership 
Award. In 1989, she was awarded the Citizen of the Year award in the City of Pittsburgh for her 
work with homeless individuals and won the Distinguished Advocate Award presented by the 
Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia in 2007.