**Background Information**

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# *Presenters/Resource Persons*

***Lynnette S. Araki*** is a Senior Health Policy Analyst in the Office
of Planning and Evaluation in the Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) and serves as the lead staff member on several
cross-cutting projects for the agency, including the joint Federal
agency contract to improve access to mainstream programs for people who
are homeless or at risk of homelessness; the HRSA Work Group on
Homelessness, which is responsible for developing and monitoring
implementation of the Agency's workplan to address homelessness in HRSA
programs; coordination of the Agency's input to the Secretary's
Workgroup on Ending Chronic Homelessness; and the HRSA Pacific Basin
Initiative.

***Jeanne Awrey*** currently serves as the Manager Student Support
Services for the Orange County Department of Education. As the Support
Manager, Ms. Awrey's role at the department is to help educate and
provide technical assistance and support to the 28 Orange County School
Districts Homeless Liaison's, community services agencies, shelter
providers, the County of Orange service agencies, and more than 34
communities throughout the county. Ms. Awrey has more than 20 years of
experience working in education. She has worn many hats, from an
Assistant Program Director for Orange Unified School District Child
Develop Services to a Director of Operations for a large corporate child
care agency.\
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Ms. Awrey holds a bachelor of science degree in child development and a
Child Development Supervisor Permit from the State of California
Commission on Teacher Credentialing. Currently, she serves on the
Anaheim Collaboration to Assist Motel Families, Orange County Continuum
of Care and OC Partnership-Info Links Shelter Provider Forum.

***\"Gigi\" (G.T.) Belanger*** is a Public Health Advisor in the Center
for Mental Health\'s (CMHS) Homeless Programs Branch at the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration where she has worked
since 1997. As Assistant Director of the PATH Program, Ms. Belanger
assists in the administration of the program. She is also involved in
the administration of the joint CMHS/Center for Substance Abuse
Treatment initiative on the Development of Comprehensive Drug/Alcohol
and Mental Health Treatment systems for persons who are homeless and the
multi‑departmental initiative to end Chronic Homelessness. Ms. Belanger
began her government service 28 years ago with the National Institute of
Mental Health which included working in the Division of Biometry and
Epidemiology, the Office of the Director and finally in the Refugee
Mental Health Program which was assumed by the Center for Mental Health
Services in 1993. She has a particular interest in evidence‑based trauma
interventions for people who are homeless.

***Mary K. Bishop*** was hired in January, 2005 as Orange County's
Homeless Prevention Manager. New to California, Ms. Bishop formerly
worked for the State of Wisconsin managing the Adolescent Pregnancy
Prevention and Pregnancy Services Board, a government agency that
granted Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and State GPR
funds via competitive grants to nonprofit agencies providing
intervention and prevention services to youth at-risk for teen
pregnancy. Ms. Bishop brings special expertise recommending public
policy and disseminating information regarding poverty/prevention
education and services including shelter services to legislators,
schools, medical and social service agencies, and nonprofits. She has
directed statewide multidisciplinary educational conferences working
with the National Fatherhood Initiative, the National Association and
Education of Young Children, and the Wisconsin Family Child Care
Association. She also brings many years experience directing nonprofit
agencies that worked with low-income families and high-risk children and
served as Director and Consultant for Satellite Family Child Care, Inc.,
a government-funded child care accreditation system that gained national
attention for its collaborative partnerships with State and local
governments, nonprofit agencies, schools, Head Start, and private early
childhood entrepreneurs.

Since coming to Orange County's Homeless Prevention Division, Mary has
served as government liaison to the Continuum of Care system. Currently,
she is spearheading countywide efforts to draft Orange County's 10-Year
Plan to End Homelessness and serves on the local Emergency Food and
Shelter National Board Program board. She also serves on the SuperNOFA
Associated Grant Application Team and recently coordinated the County of
Orange Employee's Independence From Hunger Food Drive that generated
21,000 pounds of food to feed Orange County's hungry. Mary holds a
master's of science in business management and organizational behavior
focusing on nonprofit leadership and management.

***Cynthia Blatt*** came to HUD almost 5 years ago from the U.S.
Department of Veterans Affairs where she was employed for eight years.
After receiving her master's degree from the University of Southern
California in 1992, Ms. Blatt went to work for the VA as a Clinical
Social Worker and completed all the requirements for licensure shortly
thereafter. As a clinician, her specialties included the treatment of
adult response to severe trauma, drug and alcohol addiction, severe and
persistent mental illness and homelessness. Ms. Blatt is additionally
certified in critical incident stress debriefing and domestic violence
interventions---including clinical, legal and development of community
responses---and is further trained and certified in the treatment of
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Since coming to HUD, Ms. Blatt oversees competitive funding and grant
administration to HUD's Special Needs Assistance Programs. Currently,
Ms. Blatt's assignments include grant administration in the Continuum of
Long Beach and the Continuum of Los Angeles. This funding includes
Supportive Housing Program (SHP) Grants, Shelter Plus Care (SPC) Grants,
and three special Demonstration Grants awarded in the Los Angeles
Continuum. In addition, Ms. Blatt provides training and Technical
Assistance to grantees in all Southern California Continuums.

***William F. Bolton*** is currently the Multifamily Hub Director in the
Los Angeles U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
office. In this position, he is responsible for the development and
management over 1,500 insured and subsidized developments. With a staff
of 80, the Los Angeles Multifamily Hub manages a portfolio worth more
than \$11 billion dollars and develops over 60 new developments
annually. In addition, the Hub administers project based Section 8 and
other project rental assistance programs with an annual budget in excess
of \$450 million.

Previously, he was Manager of the Sacramento Office, served as the
Director of the Office of Indian Programs in Region 9, managed the
Multifamily Housing Division in Los Angeles, and coordinated housing
support activities in the San Francisco Regional Office of Housing. He
has been a member of several Departmental task forces, including the
Energy Efficient Mortgage Program, the Multifamily Housing
Reorganization Team, and the Performance Accountability Team that
changed HUD's evaluation system for managers.

Mr. Bolton received his undergraduate degree in Engineering from the
University of California at Santa Barbara and attended Cal Poly at San
Luis Obispo for his graduate work in engineering and management.

***Diana Bowman*** directs the National Center for Homeless Education
(NCHE) at SERVE in Greensboro, NC. NCHE provides information and
resources to help educators, service providers, and other stakeholders
improve educational opportunities for children and youth experiencing
homelessness. Ms. Bowman has presented workshops on meeting the
educational needs of homeless children and youth at national and State
conferences and has conducted trainings for local homeless education
liaisons across the Nation. She has facilitated national symposia on the
transportation needs of homeless children and youth, collaboration
between Title I and homeless education programs, and the role and
responsibilities of State coordinators for homeless education in
implementing the McKinney-Vento Act. She has authored a variety of
practitioner-oriented publications and articles in the areas of homeless
education, collaborative program planning, and meeting the needs of
children at risk.

Formerly, Ms. Bowman was employed at Appalachia Educational Laboratory
(AEL) in Charleston, WV, where her responsibilities included program
coordination and strategic planning to help schools and school districts
address the needs of at-risk children. Before her work at AEL, Diana
worked in various classroom settings with at-risk children and youth and
conducted workshops on adult literacy. She holds a master's degree in
public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University, master's degrees from Marshall University and the University
of Akron, and a bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary.

***Barbara Broman*** is the Deputy to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Human Services Policy within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS). The Office of Human Services Policy is responsible for policy
development, research and evaluation related to welfare reform, supports
for low-income families, and services for families, children, and youth.

Ms. Broman has served in other management positions in the Department
where she analyzed and developed policies, and conducted and coordinated
research and evaluation, specifically focused on children and youth
issues; coordinated the formulation of the Department\'s legislative
proposals; and directed the legislation, regulations, and public affairs
activities for the HHS Office of Inspector General.

***Ed Cabrera*** is the Regional Coordinator of the Western States
(Region IX) for the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
(USICH). He coordinates the Region IX Interagency Council on
Homelessness and partners with jurisdictional CEOs in California,
Arizona, Nevada, and Hawaii.

Mr. Cabrera previously led the Southwest Border Initiative in California
for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
for 5 years. In this capacity, he provided outreach and technical
assistance that resulted in \$1.2 million in federal grant funds awarded
to organizations serving his targeted communities.   

Prior to his work at HUD, Mr. Cabrera was a part of the Service
Employees International Union, where he conducted policy research and
analysis related to health care, health care systems, welfare and
welfare reform and participated in organizing efforts in Los Angeles,
Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Mr. Cabrera was a 2004 Fellow with
the Council for Excellence in Government and a Minority Leaders Fellow
at the White House.  He has completed the Executive Education Program at
the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and is a graduate of San
Francisco State University.    

***Patricia Carlile,*** Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs for
HUD's Office of Community Planning and Development, is responsible for
annually managing over \$3 billion in new and existing HUD grants. These
funds provide both housing and supportive services to families and
individuals who are homeless or at high risk of becoming homeless. Many
of these individuals are mentally ill, addicted to drugs and alcohol, or
infected with HIV/AIDS or related diseases. Ms. Carlile is working with
20 other agencies to help achieve the Administration's goal of ending
chronic homelessness.

Ms. Carlile also served in several other senior-level positions in the
Federal Government. For the first Bush Administration, she was Executive
Director of the Interagency Council on the Homeless, coordinating the
homeless activities of 17 Federal agencies. For the Reagan White House,
she directed the recruitment of executives for presidential
appointments. During the national energy embargo, Ms. Carlile helped
staff the new Federal Energy Administration. She later moved to the
Department of Treasury to work on international issues.

Prior to joining the current Administration, Ms. Carlile owned her own
management consulting and executive search firm. She provided assistance
in strategic planning, organizational development, and human resources
to the affordable housing, real estate development, health care,
financial services, high technology, and manufacturing industries, as
well as associations. Previously, she was a partner of an international
executive search firm and established the Washington, DC, office. Ms.
Carlile began her consulting career in health care and human resources
with Arthur Young.

Ms. Carlile received her master's degree in liberal studies from
Georgetown University and her bachelor of arts degree from Pace
University in New York City. She is originally from Texas.

***Chinwoo Choi*** is a Program Manager with the Office of Community
Planning and Development (CPD) in the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development Los Angeles Field Office. Mr. Choi is a fifteen year
veteran of CPD and has served in the Los Angeles and Honolulu Office.
Mr. Choi currently manages the South Team which encompasses Orange,
Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial Counties.

***Randy Cooper*** is a Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of
Labor (DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy. He is currently
detailed to assist with the development of the Department's Homeless
Assistance Programs.

***Ann Denton*** has nearly 20 years of experience working with and for
people with disabilities. In that work, Ms. Denton has focused on the
housing needs of people with disabilities, particularly people with
serious mental illness. She has worked with communities and State
agencies throughout the country on Continuum of Care planning and
creating housing for people who are homeless. She has provided
leadership in the area of targeting resources to people who are most in
need, especially people making 30 percent or less of the household
median area income.

Ms. Denton provides leadership at the State level in all these areas.
She has served as the past Chair of the Texas Interagency Council for
the Homeless and is a founding member and a current board member of the
Texas Homeless Network. She helped to create and implement the Supported
Housing Initiative, an activity of the Texas Department of Mental Health
and Mental Retardation, which has been identified as a "best practice."
At present, she advises advocacy groups throughout Texas on the local
Consolidated Planning Process and provides energetic input to the State
ConPlan.

Ms. Denton is the Director of the Austin office of The Enterprise
Foundation, a national foundation devoted to the development of
affordable housing and decent and safe communities. Ms. Denton's office
operates a statewide training and technical assistance project with the
goal of increasing the number of housing units that are affordable,
available, and accessible for people with disabilities. Also, the Austin
office operates a leadership training project for people with
disabilities. This project provides training to people with disabilities
in 12 communities over 5 years, resulting in new leaders and measurable
system change at the local level.

***Judith Dobbins*** has spent more than 30 years in Washington, DC, in
the design, development, and management of human service programs that
respond to the needs of children, youth, and families in the
Metropolitan Area.

With a master's degree in social work from Howard University, Ms.
Dobbins began her career at the Children's National Medical Center as
coordinator of a program designed to determine the impact of methadone
treatment on pregnancies and the neonatal outcomes for mothers addicted
to heroin. Following this, she joined the Washington Urban League where
she had an opportunity as Director of Youth and Family Services to
develop and implement a citywide program designed to divert
pre-adjudicated youth from the juvenile justice system. Crucial to that
program's success was parental involvement and the development of
several educational and employment opportunities for youth participants.
Her work in forging strong collaborative relationships with public- and
private-sector organizations strengthened the efforts on behalf of youth
and their families.

In early 1990, Ms. Dobbins became Executive Director of the District's
Coalition for the Homeless, the second-largest provider of shelter and
housing services to more than 5,000 individuals (children and families)
annually who are homeless in the District of Columbia. She joined
Covenant House Washington, an affiliate of the largest child care agency
in the United States and abroad, in 1997 as Director of Programs. In
March of this year, she was appointed Executive Director of Covenant
House Washington, which is celebrating 10 years of service to the
Washington Metropolitan Area. Her vision is to improve access to
affordable housing for youth and young adults and to seek increased
vocational training opportunities that will prepare them to earn a
living wage.

Ms. Dobbins serves on the Far Southeast Family Strengthening
Collaborative Board, the Community Partnership for the Prevention of
Homelessness Board, the African American Women's Resource Center Board,
the D.C. Alliance for Youth Advocates Board, and other boards and
collaboratives that share missions for improving the quality of life for
the most needy and disadvantaged in the Washington, DC, community.

***Mary Ann Donovan*** is the Executive Assistant to the Administrator
for Policy Development and Research in the Employment & Training
Administration (ETA). In this capacity, she is responsible for
representing ETA on the Interagency Working Group to Improve Human
Service Transportation Coordination and the DOL Working Group to End
Chronic Homelessness. Ms. Donovan is one of the lead coordinators for
ETA's annual Workforce Innovations Conference. She also focuses on
issues related to Prisoner Reentry and improving educational
opportunities for at-risk youth. Prior to this assignment, she was a
policy analyst in the Office of Youth Services and the Department of
Education and the DOL National School to Work Office.

***Peter Hansen Dougherty*** is the Director of Homeless Veterans
Programs for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He serves as
the Department's principal advisor on homelessness and oversees the VA's
internal homeless working group and the Department's Advisory Committee
on Homeless Veterans. Prior to joining the VA, he worked on both the
U.S. House and U.S. Senate Committees on Veterans Affairs, where he
prepared oversight and legislative hearings for a variety of programs,
including housing, insurance, claims adjudication, mental health, and
homelessness. He drafted legislation on a number of VA programs related
to housing, employment, and homelessness. Mr. Dougherty has been
recognized for his work on veteran's issues by the National Coalition
for Homeless Veterans, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), and the VA, receiving the Meritorious Service
Award in 2001.

***Sherrie Downing*** is the owner and principle of Sherrie Downing
Consulting. As such, she provides a variety of professional services
around issues that include homelessness, poverty, low-income housing,
substance abuse, mental health and prevention. She is the editor of the
statewide *Prevention Connection* newsletter and many other statewide
publications, provides training and facilitation, and has served as the
primary writer/consultant for numerous successful State and Federal
grants. She has functioned as the Coordinator for the Montana Council on
Homelessness since inception in June 2004.

***Francine Feinberg*** is the Executive Director of Meta House, Inc. in
Milwaukee. Dr. Feinberg has become a national leader recognized for her
development of a very successful, truly integrated approach to treatment
for women with substance use disorders. Meta House is a well-established
community-based agency that has been addressing the needs of homeless
families headed by women with addictions and mental health disorders.

In 2002, Dr. Feinberg was honored with a "Sixth Annual Symposium for
Faith and Community Based Organizations Award" as a "National Leader
Recognized for Community Service in the Field of Substance Abuse
Treatment" by the DHHS. Meta House has also received a HUD "Best
Practices Award in 2002. In addition, at the Federal level, Dr. Feinberg
was a member of the Advisory Committee for Women's Services of the Joint
Council of SAMHSA until June 2004. She was also a member of the Joint
Council's Sub-Committee on Co-occurring Disorders and chaired one of the
committees writing the national Treatment Improvement Protocol for
substance use treatment of women to be published by the Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT). She is called upon to advise SAMHSA on
issues regarding family treatment and evidence-based practices. In the
State of Wisconsin, she was a member of the State Council for Alcohol
and Drug Abuse until 2004 and still sits on the Treatment and
Intervention and the Planning and Funding committees. She is a current
member of the Milwaukee Child Welfare Partnership Council and was a
member of the Governor's Task Force on Welfare Reform and Alcohol and
Drug Abuse under Governor Tommy Thompson.

Dr. Feinberg has written published materials that focus on the children
of women that abuse substances, including a chapter called
"Substance-Abusing Mothers and Their Children: Treatment for the Family"
in the book entitled *Children in Families at Risk*, edited by Lee
Combrick-Graham, 1995. She also co-authored the paper Secret Gardens:
Rediscovering and Sowing Resiliency in Families Affected by Alcohol and
Other Drug Abuse, presented at the International Evaluation Conference
in Vancouver in 1995. Most recently, she developed a Diagnostic
Assessment Workbook for Gender-Responsive Treatment for Women used by
programs and their assessors.

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***Charlene Moran Flaherty*** is Community Services Program
Administrator for the Arizona Department of Economic Security. In this
capacity, she is responsible for homeless, domestic violence, refugee
resettlement, hunger, and community action policy and program
development.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Moran Flaherty served as Arizona
State Homeless Coordinator and as Homeless Planner for the Maricopa
Association of Governments, where she developed the Maricopa Regional
Plan to End Homelessness. She also has served as Director of Medicaid
Programs for Prudential Health Plan of New York and New Jersey, Director
of Development for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for Central and
Northern Arizona, and Analyst for Health & Welfare and Appropriations
Committees of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Ms. Moran Flaherty has a bachelor's degree in psychology from La Salle
University, Philadelphia, and a master's degree in political science
from the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
She was named the 2002 Advocate of the Year by the Arizona Coalition to
End Homelessness.

***Gary Grier*** has been Program Services Manager for AIDS Foundation
Houston for the past 10 years, overseeing such Programs as the Stone
Soup Food Pantry, The Spirit Wellness Center, Beecher Wilson Apartments,
and Pathways to Success Vocational Opportunities Program. Mr. Grier
graduated from University of Houston (UH) with a bachelor's degree in
political science and a doctorate of jurisprudence from the UH Law
Center in 1991. He continued his law career in litigation practice with
a medium-sized firm until 1996.

Since 1996, Mr. Grier has provided services and helped design and
implement service programs to over 10,000 HIV-positive persons in the
greater Houston area. He has presented many times on employment and
hunger issues at conferences including the United States Conference on
AIDS and the Association of Nutrition Services Agencies Conference. He
is a member of the Houston Food Bank Advisory Committee and the Mayor's
Task Force on AIDS in the Workplace. The Stone Soup Food Pantry is the
2004 recipient of the Bandini Award for outstanding Food Pantry Program
and has been a participant in the Community Food and Nutrition Program.

***Jamie Hart,*** Director of the Intercultural Health Practice Area,
brings great passion and intellectual rigor to myriad programs devoted
to improving health quality, access, and cultural competency for those
most in need, including those facing homelessness, HIV, sickle cell
disease, trauma, incarceration, and co-occurring disorders. She is an
expert trainer and facilitator whose work focuses on bringing together
diverse grantees, planners, and other audiences to focus on strategic
planning, capacity building, and systems change. In her role as Project
Director for the Homeless Policy Academies, she has facilitated Federal
Interagency Planning Committee efforts, designed and facilitated
pre-Academy site visits, served as a State team facilitator at the
meetings, managed the day-to-day operations for the contract, and
coordinated the provision of technical assistance across several Federal
contracts. Dr. Hart also directs two newly awarded HRSA contracts
focusing on Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act
Grantees' efforts to recruit and retain people of color who are HIV
positive in care and ability to assess the severity of need for programs
and services and distributing funds accordingly.

Dr. Hart also has served as the Director for several Office of
Population Affairs assessment projects within Title X clinics on the
integration of HIV prevention, the use of couples-based services, and
the delivery of clinical training for providers. She was also the Deputy
Project Director of the Substance Abuse and Infectious Disease
Cross-Training Initiative -- funded by CSAT, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), and HRSA -- which provided resources for
training, technical assistance, and systems integration to infectious
disease, substance abuse, mental health, and public health
practitioners.

Prior to coming to HSR, Dr. Hart worked on issues related to
multicultural teaching and conducted her dissertation research on
reproductive health and access to health care for African American women
at the University of Michigan. She holds a master's of public health in
health behavior and health education, along with a master of arts degree
and a doctorate of philosophy in African American history.

***Paul Hippolitus*** is the Acting Director of Programs for the Program
Management Division of the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Disability
Employment Policy.

***Wayne Itoga*** is a Program Manager in the Los Angeles Field Office
of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he
manages a team of colleagues administering the Department's entitlement
grant programs.  During his 14 years with the Department, Mr. Itoga has
worked with entitlement communities from San Luis Obispo to San Diego.
He has also managed the Department's McKinney Act Programs for homeless
persons, and numerous special projects and supplemental appropriations.
Prior to HUD, he was with the California Coastal Commission.

 

Mr. Itoga has a bachelor\'s degree from California State University at
Long Beach and has done graduate work in Public Administration at the
same institution. He has also attended the Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University, and the School of Public Affairs at the
University of Maryland, College Park.

***William Joiner*** is currently a Marriage and Family Therapist Intern
working as a mental health clinician at a residential treatment facility
for teen mothers and at-risk girls in Los Angeles. Many of these girls
have been homeless, their families have been homeless, and most have a
fear of becoming homeless after they leave the facility. As clinician,
he provides individual therapy and facilitates a substance abuse
prevention and early intervention program. Mr. Joiner holds a bachelor's
degree in psychology and a master of science degree in psychology,
marriage, and family therapy option from Los Angeles City College.

***Charlene E. Le Fauve*** currently serves as Branch Chief for
Co-occurring and Homeless Activities at the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, in
the Division of State and Community Assistance. She is also the Acting
Chief for the Data Infrastructure Branch in the same Division and brings
a background in clinical psychology with specialized training in the
treatment of addictions and co-occurring disorders spanning many years.
Her federal career includes policy, legislation, and research
experiences at NIDA, the White House Office of National Drug Control
Policy, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She
came to SAMHSA last summer from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse
and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Division of Treatment and Recovery Research
where she served as a program officer for pharmacotherapy and behavioral
clinical trials research for the treatment of alcohol use disorders with
co-occurring psychiatric illness. Prior to her position at NIAAA, she
served as a legislative analyst at the White House Office of National
Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). While at ONDCP she served as a Special
Assistant and Scientific Consultant to the Director, General Barry
McCaffery (1999-2001).

She is a graduate of the University of Georgia doctoral program in
Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Behavioral Medicine.
Following post doctoral training in Substance Abuse Medicine at Virginia
Commonwealth (MCV) University\'s Medical College, Dr. Le Fauve joined
the faculty in the medical college where she served in positions
including Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry (adjunct), Assistant Professor of Community Medicine and
Preventive Health (adjunct), Psychology Intern Supervisor, Psychiatry
Resident Psychotherapy Supervisor, and Consultant to the Department of
Anesthesiology Chronic Pain Management Program.

During her tenure at MCV she secured extramural funding to conduct
psychiatric and behavior genetics research from the National Institute
on Drug Abuse. She is a member of the American Psychological Association
and the Research Society on Alcohol and has served on government-wide
interagency task forces working with groups on alcohol and substance
abuse research, policy and legislative strategies.

***Joseph Lisante*** has been an Economic Development Specialist,
Program Manager, Financial Analyst and Senior Community Planning and
Development Representative with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD) at its Field Offices in New York City (1984-1995) and
in Los Angeles (1995-Present). Previously he served as an Operations
Officer and Facilities and Controls Officer with Chase Manhattan Bank in
New York City, and from 1965 to 1969 was an Artillery Officer with U.S.
Marine Corps Reserve. Mr. Lisante holds a BBA in Management and
Economics from the City College of New York and has completed 36 credits
of graduate study in Finance and Accounting from Baruch College of the
City University of New York.

***Anthony "Tony" Lowery*** is the Housing Director for Safer Foundation
in Chicago. He has developed and directed housing programs for people
who are chemically dependent with criminal records for the past 10
years. He currently is directing Safer Foundation's first Re-Entry
Housing Initiative in the organization's 33-year history of providing
services for people with criminal records. He is a member of the State
of Illinois Governor's Community Safety & Re-Entry Working Group and the
Midwest Re-Entry Housing Forum.

Mr. Lowery's previous experience includes developing Drug Prevention and
Economic Development programs in Chicago Public Housing communities were
he was the recipient of two National Association of Housing and
Redevelopment Official Awards for his work. He holds a bachelor's degree
from Tennessee State University and certification as an Alcohol and Drug
Prevention Specialist in the State of Illinois.

***Kate Lyons*** is the Associate Vice President (VP) of Programs. She
works with the VP of Programs to provide leadership and support to all
SEARCH Programs in addition to continuing her duties as Program Manager
of the Employment Education Center and Scattered-site Housing programs.
Ms. Lyons has been running these programs for SEARCH since 1998 and was
promoted to Associate VP of Programs in 2003. She supervises a team of
24 employees and oversees budgets and budget revisions, compliance
issues, and contract administration. She participates in all aspects of
grant concept generation and narrative construction for government
grants. Prior to joining SEARCH, she held a variety of management
positions in the employment education field working with
low-income/disadvantaged youth and adults. Ms. Lyons holds a bachelor of
science degree in psychology from the University of Houston.

***Philip F. Mangano*** is the Executive Director of the United States
Interagency Council on Homelessness. Mr. Mangano was appointed by
President Bush to lead the Council in March 2002. The Interagency
Council is responsible for creating the Federal strategy and
coordinating the response to achieve the realization of the President's
commitment to end chronic homelessness. Under Mr. Mangano's leadership,
the Council, which is comprised of 20 Cabinet Secretaries and agency
heads, has forwarded a strategy of intra-agency, interagency,
intragovernmental, intergovernmental, and intercommunity collaborations
to end homelessness. Governors of 53 States and Territories have taken
steps to create State Interagency Councils on Homelessness, and over 200
Mayors and County Executives are underway with or have completed a
10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. Since Mr. Mangano's
appointment, the Council has convened the Federal agencies as Regional
Interagency Councils on Homelessness in the Federal regions. Each
Council is supported by a Regional Coordinator, who provides technical
assistance and support to States, cities, and counties in their
jurisdictional initiatives. The Council has prioritized prevention as a
central theme of homelessness policy and encouraged strategies based on
the President's Management Agenda: evidence based, customer responsive,
and results oriented.\
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Prior to his appointment by President Bush to lead the Interagency
Council, Mr. Mangano was the founding Executive Director of the
Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance (MHSA), a statewide coalition
of 80 agencies which operate over 200 programs. During the 12 years of
Mr. Mangano's tenure, MHSA developed statewide strategies to reduce and
end homelessness in Massachusetts. Mr. Mangano also participated in the
creation and development of a variety of community-based organizations,
including a social justice group in Los Angeles and Social Action
Ministries of Greater Boston. For several years, he was a full time
volunteer on St. Anthony's Breadline in downtown Boston, and he
subsequently became the Director of Homeless Services for the City of
Cambridge.

***Joan McAllister*** has worked with the North Carolina Independent
Living program since 1995 and is the State coordinator of NC LINKS, the
name of the program since 2000. A passionate advocate on behalf of youth
and young adults who have been in foster care, Ms. McAllister provides
leadership to the 100 county Departments of Social Services in regard to
effective programs, appropriate use of the county allocations and LINKS
Special Funds, and information about other agencies that provide
services to current and former foster youth.

Ms. McAllister is a 1970 graduate of the University of North Carolina
School of Social Work. In addition to her work at the North Carolina
Division of Social Services, she serves as a consultant for the National
Resource Center for Youth Development, Casey Family Programs, the Urban
Institute, and other national youth-serving organizations. With Barbara
Bergman, she has helped to provide leadership to the newly formed North
Carolina Collaborative on Youth in Transition, which seeks to improve
information sharing and service delivery to youth transitioning to
adulthood from public service systems. She also has served with the
Discharge Planning Task Force of the North Carolina Plan to End
Homelessness.

## *Judy McBride* joined the staff of Family Justice in July 2003. As a Senior Policy Associate, she shares experience in working with nonprofits and Federal and local government. Her nonprofit experience includes working at YouthBuild USA, overseeing its capacity-building grant and loan fund programs, and at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, managing development and trustee relations. Ms. McBride's government service includes working at the U.S. Department of Justice, helping to implement offender reentry initiatives and efforts to address the needs of people with mental illness in the justice system; at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Department, Office of Congressional Relations and Intergovernmental Affairs, working with Federal, State, and local government staff; and at the District of Columbia City Council developing local legislation. With professional training in law and developmental psychology, Judy also directed the American Bar Association (ABA) Criminal Justice Standards Project, its Gun Violence Project, as well as a national project working with State courts to implement the ABA Guidelines for the Evaluation of Judicial Performance. 

***Flavio Menasce*** is a Presidential Management Fellow within the ASPE
Office of Human Services Policy.\
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ASPE conducts policy-relevant research and plays a policy coordination
role across the many agencies in the Department, taking the lead on a
range of departmental activities related to homelessness, such as the
Secretary's Work Group on Ending Chronic Homelessness and serving as the
liaison between the Department and the Interagency Council on
Homelessness. Mr. Menasce works on policy and research issues related to
homelessness, in addition to\
other topic areas.

***Jim Miller*** started spending his weekends serving meals to homeless
people in the parks over 20 years ago.  He envisioned a place where
families in need could go when they had lost everything.  Mr. Miller
realized his vision by founding a private nonprofit organization,
Shelter For The Homeless in 1985.  The year 2005 commemorates the
agency's 20th year of continuous service.

 

As Executive Director, Mr. Miller directs a shelter network consisting
of 42 locations in Orange, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles Counties.  On
any given night 1,043 people have a safe place to sleep thorough our low
income and transitional housing programs.  He manages an annual budget
of over two million dollars.  He has completed the Nonprofit Executive
Management Institute program through the University of California,
Irvine.  Through his leadership, Shelter For The Homeless has become one
of the largest shelter providers in Southern California.

***Richard Morris*** is with the Office of Youth Services in the U.S.
Department of Labor

***Steven Nelson*** has served as Director of Employment Services at the
Jackson Employment Center for over 14 years. He has a bachelor of
science degree in public management and accounting from the University
of Arizona in Tucson. He also serves as an Eller College Associate at
the University of Arizona. Mr. Nelson has served three terms as Chair of
the Tucson Planning Council for the Homeless, which is the lead entity
for the Continuum of Care planning process in the City of Tucson/Pima
County. He developed the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Supportive Housing Program "La Casita" to provide young adults and
parenting teens employment assistance with vocational training and
transitional housing assistance to fill the gap in services to youth. La
Casita was awarded a *HUD National Best Practice Award* in August 2000.
Mr. Nelson has played a lead role in developing employment programs for
special populations within the One-Stop System in Pima County.

***Crucita Nuanez-Ochoa*** was initially introduced to Chicanos Por La
Causa, Inc. (CPLC), as a participant of the CPLC Via de Amistad
Employment and Training Center for Women. In 1986, Ms. Nuanez-Ochoa
became an employee of the organization. Since then, Ms. Nuanez-Ochoa has
worked her way up the corporate ladder from receptionist to her current
position of Director of Domestic Violence Programs for CPLC. She has
held the position of director since 1996. Her work experience with CPLC
includes everything from answering phones and conducting case-management
and client advocacy to developing and managing programs. As Director of
Domestic Violence Programs, Ms. Nuanez-Ochoa is responsible for
fundraising, contract and financial management, supervising and
providing staff training, and carrying out the day to day operations of
the center. She holds a national certification in Domestic Violence
Counseling. Ms. Nuanez-Ochoa is currently serving as interim president
of the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence Board of Directors.
She also serves on the The Regional Homeless Council Board.

***John O'Brien*** is the Regional Coordinator of the New England States
(Region I) for the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
(ICH) and is responsible for coordinating the activities of the USICH
within six states. A Vietnam veteran, he is also the Council's liaison
to the VA Secretary's Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans.

Mr. O'Brien has worked with homeless people and those at risk of
homelessness for more than thirty years.  For the 13 years prior to
assuming his position with the ICH, John was the Executive Director of
the Shattuck Shelter-Center for the Homeless, a public/private
partnership that provided emergency shelter, support service programs,
HIV/AIDS programs and permanent housing options to 300 women and men
each day.  From 1970 to 1989, he developed and implemented substance
abuse treatment programs for adults and youth in Greater Boston. 

He is a past President and member of the Executive Committee of the
Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance. He served on Boston's
Strategic Homeless Planning Group and the Massachusetts Department of
Public Health Commissioner's Task Force on Homelessness. He is also a
former member of the Board of Directors of Boston Health Care for the
Homeless.

***John Parvensky*** has served as the President and CEO of the Colorado
Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) since 1985. An attorney by training, he
has extensive experience in the development, implementation and
administration of housing and service programs for the homeless
population. Under his leadership, CCH has developed nearly 1,000 units
of housing for homeless and low-income families and individuals in
Colorado. CCH has secured numerous grants from HUD through the
Supportive Housing and Shelter Plus Care Programs. CCH also administers
a HRSA Health Care for the Homeless Program (Stout Street Clinic), a
PATH program and a CSAT grant. Mr. Parvensky recently served as
President of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and
serves on the Board of the National Coalition for the Homeless. He is a
leading advocate for integrated health, mental health, and substance
treatment services in conjunction with affordable housing development
for the homeless population. He recently received the prestigious
Leadership for a Changing World Award from the Ford Foundation.

In 1990, he developed the Metro Denver Homeless Families Project with
CCH, a multicounty initiative providing comprehensive housing and
supportive services to "multi-problem" homeless families. The project
was one of 10 demonstration projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation's Homeless Families Project.

***Patricia A. Post*** is a policy analyst and communications manager
for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, a membership
organization of health care providers working with homeless people
across the United States, based in Nashville, TN. She is the author of a
monograph on Medicaid enrollment barriers for eligible homeless people
(Casualties of Complexity: Why Eligible Homeless People Are Not Enrolled
in Medicaid, 2001) and a report on health problems and health care
access barriers experienced by homeless people in rural America (Hard to
Reach: Rural Homelessness & Health Care, 2002). Last year, she oversaw
the production of a manual to educate clinicians about appropriate
documentation of medical impairments in support of their patients'
applications for Federal disability benefits (Documenting Disability:
Simple Strategies for Medical Providers, 2004). These documents were
published by the National Council with support from the Bureau of
Primary Health Care/HRSA/DHHS. Ms. Post also edits a bimonthly clinical
newsletter for the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network
(Healing Hands) and a series of recommended clinical practice
adaptations to optimize care for individuals who are homeless.

Ms. Post staffs the National Council's SSI Task Force and directs the
TennCare Shelter

Enrollment Project, an outreach initiative to improve health care access
for sheltered homeless children in Tennessee. She is the former
President of a statewide health care consumer group in Tennessee that
advocates for medically underserved populations and works to maximize
the effectiveness of TennCare, Tennessee's Medicaid managed care
demonstration program. Before joining the National Council, she served
as Executive Director of the Tennessee Perinatal Association, as a
consultant to the Vanderbilt University Center for Health Services\'
Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker project, and as the Director of a
center for education and research in orthopedics at Vanderbilt
University Medical Center.

***Ron Reepen*** is a Health Insurance Specialist with the Region IX
Office of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services with the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.

***John Rio*** is a Senior Program Associate at Advocates for Human
Potential and Co-Director of the Chronic Homelessness Employment
Technical Assistance Center supported by the DOL. He also provides HUD-
and SAMHSA-supported technical assistance. He has over 30 years of
experience in rehabilitation & recovery services, supportive housing,
and in homeless assistance services. His experience includes developing
HUD-financed housing, operating mental health inpatient and outpatient
services, and directing employment service programs that have helped
people with complex needs to maintain their housing and pursue their
life goals.

Mr. Rio's work has focused on developing materials, delivering technical
assistance, training, and designing strategies to help increase the
availability and capacity of supportive housing across the country. He
has produced the Supportive Housing Training Series for HUD, coordinated
national training activities, developed a listserv network for HUD Safe
Haven operators, managed the evaluation of the national multisite
evaluation of Next Step: Jobs, and conducted numerous workshops on
workforce development and supportive housing development and service
linkages. He has managed several Federal grants, including demonstration
projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Ford
Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Annie E. Casey
Foundation in New York, Chicago, Columbus, Bridgeport, and San
Francisco.

***Josephine Robinson*** On March 15, 2005, Josephine Bias Robinson was
appointed Director of the Federal Office of Community Services (OCS). As
the agency's Director, Mrs. Robinson provides direction and leadership
over the Office that provides state and community based grant funding
and economic development support for low income neighborhoods.

Prior to the OCS appointment, Mrs. Robinson was Senior Advisor and Chief
of Staff to the Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH), for the Office of
Public Health and Science, in the Office of the Secretary at the
Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Mrs. Robinson provided
advice to the ASH on matters of population-based public health and
related health and science policy and oversaw the development and
implementation of OPHS initiatives and campaigns including: Safe and
Bright Futures for Children, The Heart Truth Campaign, Take a Loved One
to the Doctor Day, World AIDS Day, and National Women\'s Health Week.
Mrs. Robinson also served concurrently as the Acting Executive Director
of PACHA from February 2003 to May 2004.

From January 2002 through 2003, Mrs. Robinson served as an Associate
Director, in the White House Office of Public Liaison, where she
organized and managed events, briefings and meetings for President Bush,
White House Staff, Cabinet Members and senior government officials. Mrs.
Robinson's portfolio included: healthcare issues, including Medicare,
prescription drugs, research and innovation; drug control policy; issues
such as victims' rights, domestic violence and welfare; and
entertainment. In addition, from January 2001 to 2002, Mrs. Robinson
served as the Executive Assistant to the White House Chief of Staff;
Andrew H. Card, Jr. Mrs. Robinson also has worked in the United States
Senate as a Professional Staff Member to the Joint Economic Committee,
chaired by former Senator Connie Mack.

While working in the private sector, Mrs. Robinson was the Manager of
Federal Affairs for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America

Mrs. Robinson is a founding Advisory Board Member of the Children's
Charities Foundation (CCF) which raises money for charitable
organizations, in the metropolitan D.C. area, that serve low-income and
at-risk children and youth. CCF hosts a gala and runs the BB&T Classic,
a NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Mrs. Robinson is responsible for
producing half-time entertainment and sponsor timeout promotions,
selecting singers for the National Anthem, and assisting with game floor
operations for the tournament.

Mrs. Robinson received her Bachelors degree in International Relations
and Politics from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.

***Vicki Robinson*** is a native of Tacoma, WA. Ms. Robinson began her
career in public service in 1990 for the State of Washington's
Department of Social and Health Services and has worked in all areas of
public assistance, including TANF, food stamps, Medicaid, and long-term
care programs. As a program analyst for the Food and Nutrition Service
(FNS), Ms. Robinson analyzes waiver requests from States, provides
policy clarifications, and develops training on Food Stamp Program
policy. Ms. Robinson delivered a presentation to program staff members
on access issues facing homeless families. She has participated on FNS
grant committees on topics such as Florida's modernization of the Food
Stamp Program. Ms. Robinson also analyzes waiver requests for benefits
under the Disaster Food Stamp Program and works with staff members from
nutrition and budget to ensure the program is administered quickly,
accurately, and within budget constraints. Ms. Robinson worked with
State and local staff in Baton Rouge as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

Ms. Robinson has received two Certificate of Merits, one for her
participation in the implementation of the restoration of Food Stamp
Program benefits to legal immigrants established under the 2002 Farm
Bill, and one for assisting in the Hurricane Isabel Disaster Response.
Ms. Robinson has a master's of business administration from Auburn
University in Auburn, AL.

***Ebony Ross*** has a wide range of experience in evidence-based
strategic planning, HIV capacity building, technical assistance
provision, and analytical and applied research in the fields of
behavioral medicine and public health. She is also proficient in project
management of federally funded multisite projects. As a Senior Policy
Associate at HSR, Ms. Ross serves as a project manager for two new HRSA
projects with Ryan White CARE Act grantees and as a technical assistance
manager for two systems integration projects focused on homelessness and
reducing health disparities in pediatric asthma. Previously, Ms. Ross
managed a HRSA-funded project that provided technical assistance to 175
minority community-based and faith-based organizations. She also
cofacilitated regional HRSA-funded training workshops to enhance the
capacity of Minority AIDS Initiative grantees, grassroots organizations,
and faith-based organizations to address HIV/AIDS within communities of
color She also managed numerous projects for the CDC and its partners,
including codevelopment of a capacity-building framework for CDC
grantees; development and facilitation of focus groups for the CDC
Office of Women's Health; and facilitation of a strategic planning
retreat for Prevention Programs for the CDC Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention and the Capacity Building Branch staff.

***Marybeth (Beth) Shinn*** is Professor of Psychology and Public Policy
and former Chair of the Psychology Department at New York University.
Her work focuses on poverty; homelessness; and the community,
institutional, and policy environments that affect individual
well-being. She and her colleagues have conducted numerous studies of
homelessness in New York City. These include a 5-year study of homeless
and housed poor families, a study of alternative models for sheltering
homeless families, and an evaluation of the Department of Homeless
Services' census of people living on the streets. She also has worked on
experimental evaluations of a program in New York to house homeless
individuals with mental illness and chemical dependencies in their own
apartments, directly from the street, and a program in Westchester
County to get families out of shelters and into housing, with
structured, time-limited services. Other current research interests
include welfare reform, prevention of homelessness, and methods for
assessing the social contexts of people's lives.

Ms. Shinn received her doctorate of philosophy in social and community
psychology from the University of Michigan in 1978 and her bachelor of
arts degree in social relations from Radcliffe College, Harvard
University, in 1973. She has worked actively with various government
agencies, including the Department of Homeless Services, the Human
Resources Administration, the Department of Health in New York, and the
Federal Interagency Council on Homelessness. In more-academic circles,
she is president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social
Issues. She also has served as president of the Society for Community
Research and Action and received that organization's award for
Distinguished Contributions to Theory and Research.

***Gary Smith*** is a Senior Project Director at the Human Services
Research Institute (HSRI). He will codirect (along with John Agosta)
HSRI project activities and serve as a Principal Investigator. Mr. Smith
is a nationally recognized expert in the arena of long-term care policy,
Medicaid, and the Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) waiver
program, focusing on policies that affect individuals with intellectual
and other disabilities. He has worked in the human services arena for
more than 30 years, concentrating on policy analysis and system change.
Presently, Mr. Smith is a managing partner for the Independent Living
Research Utilization's Community Living Partnership National
State-to-State Technical Assistance Center, and he furnishes technical
assistance to 2004 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Systems Change Rebalancing grantees. He also is under subcontract with
MEDSTAT as technical writer for the DHHS/CMS/Center for Medicaid and
State Operations/Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group initiative
to revise the 1915(c) HCBS waiver application. Mr. Smith has extensive
experience working directly with States to design HCBS waiver programs
for persons with intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Mr.
Smith served as the Principal Investigator for the preparation of the
recent DHHS/ASPE publication *Using Medicaid to Support Working Age
Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses in the Community: A Handbook.*

From 1987 to 2001, Mr. Smith served as Director of Special Projects for
the National Association of State Directors of Developmental
Disabilities Services, Inc. (NASDDDS). Prior to joining the Association,
he was Deputy Director of the Colorado Division for Developmental
Disabilities and held other senior State government management positions
in Illinois and Colorado. His work at NASDDDS focused on (1) providing
technical assistance to States in using Medicaid funding options to
expand and enhance community services for people with intellectual and
other disabilities and other system management topics and (2) conducting
special studies that focused on improving the delivery of publicly
funded services and supports for people with developmental disabilities.
He is the author or co-author of several publications concerning the
Medicaid HCBS waiver program, waiting lists, supported living, and other
topics. He was principal author of *Understanding Medicaid Home and
Community Services: A Primer*, a DHHS/ASPE publication concerning the
full range of Medicaid options and benefits that support community
living for people with disabilities. Mr. Smith is located at the HSRI
Portland Oregon office.

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***Juanita Villalobos*** is a regional representative with the Office of
Community Planning and Development, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.

***John Wagner*** comes to the Department of Transitional Assistance
(DTA) with an extensive background in welfare-related issues both in
Massachusetts and Wisconsin. In Wisconsin, he served in the Department
of Health and Human Services where he helped to craft and implement the
state's welfare reform program with then-Governor Tommy Thompson.

Mr. Wagner came to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and
Human Services (EOHHS) in January 1995. At EOHHS, he served as Chief of
Staff and Undersecretary. He was responsible for overseeing the overall
administrative functions of EOHHS as well as human service policies and
initiatives, including welfare reform, homelessness, and workforce
development.

Governor Jane Swift appointed Mr. Wagner as the DTA commissioner in
April 2002. Governor Romney reappointed him in January 2003. DTA manages
over \$1 billion in State and Federal spending, including cash
assistance, Food Stamps, Supplemental Security Income, Employment
Services, and sheltering programs for the homeless. DTA currently has
approximately 1,600 employees.

Since being appointed, Commissioner Wagner has focused on three
priorities: increasing access to the Food Stamp program, redesigning
services and programs to the homeless, and crafting welfare reforms that
will replace the current State program when the Commonwealth's welfare
waiver expires in 2005.

In September 2004, Massachusetts Health and Human Services' Secretary
Ronald Preston named Wagner the Assistant Secretary for Children, Youth,
and Families. In addition to being DTA Commissioner, Mr. Wagner is
charged with coordinating policies for children and families across
Massachusetts' health and human services system.

A graduate of Marquette University, Mr. Wagner holds a master's degree
in public policy from Georgetown University and a master's degree in
public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard.

***Rufus Washington*** is a Senior Community Planning and Development
Representative with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
in Los Angeles, California.

***Marsha Werner*** is the Federal Project Officer for the Policy
Academy on Homeless Families with Children. She also is the Federal
Manager for the Social Services Block Grant program at the Office of
Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, DHHS. She
has extensive experience as a program and management analyst.

***Carol Wilkins*** is the Director of Intergovernmental Policy with the
Corporation for Supportive Housing, where she works to develop and
support the implementation of policy solutions to end long-term
homelessness for people who have complex health needs and multiple
barriers to employment. She has more than 25 years of experience in
public finance, human services, and policy work, including work with the
California Legislature's office of the Legislative Analyst, with the
State Assembly Ways and Means Committee, as Deputy Mayor of Finance in
San Francisco, and as Finance Director for the San Francisco Housing
Authority. She joined the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) in
1994, where she was responsible for planning and directing the
implementation of the Health, Housing and Integrated Services Network,
an award-winning collaboration of nonprofit and local government
agencies which integrates the financing and delivery of affordable
housing and an array of services to homeless and disabled adults in
California. She is the co-author of *Laying a New Foundation: Changing
the Systems that Create and Sustain Supportive Housing*, as well as a
series of white papers, "Financing the Support in Supportive Housing:
Challenges and Opportunities in the Medicaid Program," published by CSH.
She is the author of "Building a Model Managed Care System for Homeless
Adults with Special Needs: The Health, Housing and Integrated Services
Network" in *Current Issues in Public Health* and co-author of the
chapter "Making Homeless Programs Accountable to Consumers, Funders and
the Public," presented at the 1998 National Symposium on Homelessness
Research and published by HUD and the DHHS. She was a member of the
expert panel convened in February 2000 by the U.S. General Accounting
Office on homelessness and barriers to using mainstream programs.

Ms. Wilkins served as a member of California's Co-Occurring Disorders
Workgroup, where she was asked by the Workgroup co-chairs and members to
help craft the final report to present policy and financing
recommendations. She is currently a member of California's Joint Action
Council on Co-Occurring Disorders and serves as a consultant to
California's Department of Mental Health, supporting the implementation
of the Mental Health Services Act (Proposition 63). She has served as a
member of the faculty for each of the HUD/DHHS/VA/DOL Policy Academies
on Improving Access to Mainstream Services for People Experiencing
Chronic Homelessness, as well as for the Policy Academy on Family
Homelessness, where she has served as an expert on Systems Change,
Housing, and the Dynamics of Homelessness and the Impact of Supportive
Housing on Services Use and Costs. She has been invited to deliver
presentations and technical assistance to national and regional groups
in more than 20 States to facilitate systems change and to increase the
capacity of State and local governments and nonprofit agencies to create
integrated systems to expand supportive housing opportunities for people
with disabilities and those who are homeless.

***Francine Williams*** is a Senior Project Associate at Policy Research
Associates, Inc. (PRA) in Delmar, New York. In this capacity, she
directs and coordinates multiple projects within PRA's Homeless and
Housing Division, including national technical assistance contracts for
the Policy Academies on Homelessness and HUD's McKinney-Vento and PHASES
(chronic homelessness) grantees. She is also the former Director of the
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness which was
operated by PRA under contract to the U.S. Center for Mental Health
Services for 16 years. Ms. Williams also served as PRA's Homeless and
Housing Division Manager, with oversight and management responsibility
for all of PRA's homeless and housing projects. Prior to coming to PRA
in 1997, Ms. Williams worked in employment and residential programs for
people with mental illnesses, many of whom had been homeless.

***Girley A. Wright*** is a Program Analyst in the Office of Planning,
Research, and Evaluation at the Administration for Children and
Families. She serves as the Project Officer for a major initiative to
assess the effectiveness of programs designed to enhance employment
outcomes for TANF recipients and other low-income parents who have
demonstrated difficulty entering and sustaining employment.

***Melvin V. Worthy*** was born in Detroit Michigan, drafted in 1965,
and sent to Fort Knox Kentucky for basic training and then to Fort
Bevoir Engineering School in Virginia. In May 1965, he was sent to join
the 25^th^ Infantry Division in Cu Chi South Vietnam for 1 year. He was
discharged in 1967 and immediately started work on the assembly line for
the Chrysler Corporation. He changed jobs in 1971 and after some college
courses went to work for a radio/TV station in sales and worked for
General Motors' Chevrolet traffic department.

Mr. Worthy left General Motors and came to Los Angeles in 1978. He has
worked for the VA for 25 years. He is currently the Los Angeles Regional
Office's Veteran's Homeless Outreach Coordinator.

**Betty Zamost** has worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
for over 26 years. Prior to joining the VA, she received a masters in
social work at Boston University and a masters in public administration
from the University of San Francisco. While working for the VA, she
obtained an additional Masters in Public Administration in Health Care
from the University. Ms Zamost has held a variety of positions
throughout her VA career. Her One-Stop VA program was highlighted at the
regional One VA conference and written up in the VA Vanguard
publication.\
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Currently Ms. Zamost is the Coordinator for VA Greater Los Angeles
Healthcare System\'s homeless Grant & Per Diem program. This is the
largest Grant & Per Diem program in the country providing transitional
housing to homeless veterans and their families.

###### *Facilitators*

***Donna Aligata*** is President of Gold Cottage Industries, LLC, a
diverse team of homebased consultants committed to "Building and
Sustaining the Community Through Collaboration." Gold Cottage Industries
provides its clients with a variety of technical services, including
strategic planning, program design, training, facilitation, executive
coaching, and technical assistance.

For the past 30 years, Ms. Aligata has worked to facilitate cross-agency
collaboration, form strategic alliances, improve program outcomes, and
design programs related to the recovery community, mental health
consumers, and people dealing with stigma related to HIV/AIDS and
homelessness. She served for 8 years as Director of Development and
Chief Operating Officer for a national nonprofit health services firm.
She also served as Director of the Prison Technical Assistance and
Training Project for SAMHSA for 3 years. Subsequently, she leveraged
over \$1 million to found The Center, a State of Connecticut addiction
counselor-training institute, where she served as Director. The Center
provides 250 courses annually for developing certified counselors to
work in the community. Mrs. Aligata also served for 4 years as Project
Director of a substance abuse and infectious disease Cross-Training
Initiative, funded by CSAT, the CDC, and HRSA. On this project, she led
a team of multidisciplinary trainers working in 32 States and
facilitated a Federal interagency advisory group's collaborative process
for bringing agencies together to create policy change.

***David Carrillo.*** With 25 years of experience as a facilitator,
trainer, and administrator, Mr. Carrillo's long history of multicultural
collaboration and advocacy culminated with his establishment of the
National Center for Cultural Healing in 1992. Most recently, he
completed a 2 ½-year assignment as Manager of Diversity Education and
Training for the Newspaper Association of America, during which he
developed, marketed, and delivered diversity products to member
newspapers.

Mr. Carrillo's work experience within the Federal System includes the
National Service Leadership Program, the Corporation for National
Service, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, CSAT, the Indian
Health Services, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Office of Juvenile
Justice Delinquency Program, the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and
Drug Prevention Information, and HRSA. He also spent 2 years with the
National Volunteer Training Center, training and developing volunteers
to work with youth.

On the corporate level, Mr. Carrillo has been a facilitator with such
groups as the Texaco, Johnson and Johnson, and Georgia Power diversity
training teams. Other national efforts, like AmeriCorp, America's
Promise Fellows, and Vista Volunteers, have earned him a strong
reputation for working with what others call hard-to-reach or unwilling
audiences. He works to bring these groups together to increase
communication and finding common interests and goals.

***Charlene Moran Flaherty*** is Community Services Program
Administrator for the Arizona Department of Economic Security. In this
capacity, she is responsible for homelessness, domestic violence,
refugee resettlement, hunger, and community action policy and program
development.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Moran Flaherty served as Arizona
State Homeless Coordinator and as Homeless Planner for the Maricopa
Association of Governments, where she developed the Maricopa Regional
Plan to End Homelessness. She also has served as Director of Medicaid
Programs for Prudential Health Plan of New York and New Jersey, Director
of Development for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul for Central and
Northern Arizona, and Analyst for Health & Welfare and Appropriations
Committees of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

Ms. Moran Flaherty has a bachelor's degree in psychology from La Salle
University, Philadelphia, and a master's degree in political science
from the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University, New Jersey.
She was named the 2002 Advocate of the Year by the Arizona Coalition to
End Homelessness.

***Martha "Marty" Fleetwood*** is the Founder and Executive Director of
HomeBase, a nonprofit legal and technical services provider focused on
breaking the code of homelessness. She holds a bachelor of arts degree
from the University of California at Irvine and a doctorate of
jurisprudence from Harvard Law School. With a lifelong social justice
commitment, she has held significant positions of responsibility with
the United States Department of Justice and the legal arm of the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She
currently serves on the Board of Directors for Regents of the Franciscan
School of Theology.

Ms. Fleetwood has supported Federal and State governments by serving on
the faculty for national conferences of the VA and the DHHS. She has
been a facilitator (and provided followup technical assistance to teams)
at the Mainstreaming Policy Academies for Families and for Chronically
Homeless Individuals, sponsored by the DHHS, HUD, the VA, the DOL, and
partner Federal agencies. She has served as Co-Lead Facilitator for the
National African American Mental Health and Substance Abuse Summit held
by SAMHSA. Ms. Fleetwood is a facilitator for the National Policy
Academies on Co-occurring Mental and Substance Abuse Disorders, an
expert presenter for SAMHSA on Cultural Competency in Serving People Who
Are Homeless, and Discharge Planning to Prevent Homelessness.

Ms. Fleetwood has advised the White House Office of Management and
Budget and Domestic Policy Council, the Federal Reserve Bank, and
Departments of Education and Labor on homelessness issues. Additionally,
she has assisted HUD by offering advice on Section 3 of the Housing Act,
conducting annual policy briefings, serving at expert meetings, and
providing McKinney-Vento homeless programs technical assistance.

***Patrick Moynahan,*** Executive Vice President and Chief Operating
Officer of Cloudburst Consulting Group, Inc., has more than 20 years of
experience in the design, implementation, and assessment of social
policy and programs for governmental agencies and nonprofit
organizations that provide services---such as housing, health,
homelessness, and economic and community development---to socially and
economically disadvantaged persons. Mr. Moynahan directs Cloudburst\'s
policy research and program evaluation work with a variety of clients,
including the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and
Health and Human Services. Recently, he supported HUD\'s Office of
Special Needs Assistance Programs in assisting continuum of care
communities to evaluate their Homeless Management Information Systems
needs. Mr. Moynahan is an experienced trainer and technical assistance
provider in HUD homeless assistance programs, and he has directed the
development of policy reports and studies assessing the effectiveness of
HUD programs, including reports to Congress. Mr. Moynahan received a
professional degree in architecture from the University of Notre Dame.

***Michael Sanders*** serves as a trainer and consultant for numerous
child welfare agencies. With nearly 15 years' experience in both public
and private child welfare systems, he applies his enthusiasm for
children and families in a humorous and exciting presentation. He has
written and trained numerous curriculums for social workers, foster
parents, and youth and community partners. Mr. Sanders provides
technical assistance for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, with the
Family-to-Family Initiative in the area of redesigning the processes of
recruitment, training, and support and retention of resource families.
His career has focused on adolescent issues; therefore, his passion has
been developing a youth involvement initiative within child welfare
practice.

***Jamie Taylor*** has worked with planning, implementing and funding
nonprofit programs for over 20 years. She has coordinated the
development of services and partnerships in the health care, mental
health, housing, employment, substance abuse, and public policy arenas.
She works with collaborative planning teams on multiple interagency
collaborations; facilitates with SAMHSA and HUD National Policy
Academies; coordinates planning and development of coalitions and
service teams focused on ending homelessness; creates capacity-building
initiative with statewide youth development organization; provides
strategic program planning and capacity-building support to
community-based nonprofits; and serves as a development consultant with
Pathways to Housing New York and Washington, DC. She is also working in
partnership with a Uganda Foundation and the development of health
services in a rural health district of Uganda. Ms. Taylor holds a
bachelors of science from the University of Connecticut and a masters in
health science from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.