*U.S. Department of Health and Human Services*

*U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development*

*U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs*

*U.S. Department of Labor*

**Improving Access to Mainstream Services for People Experiencing
Homelessness: Focus on Homeless Families with Children**

######## Radisson Miami Hotel

## *Miami, Florida*

## *January 27 - 29, 2004*

**Background Information**

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# Presenters/Resource Persons

*Regina F. Alexander* is the Veterans Homeless Outreach Coordinator
(VHOC) for the St. Petersburg Veterans Affairs Regional Office (VARO).
She is an advocate for veterans through her work filing various claims,
including compensation and pension claims for veterans. Ms. Alexander
also provides information, presentations and literature on Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits. She visits organizations, homeless
agencies, and shelters to provide VA assistance and resources as well as
determine eligibility for the wide range of VA benefits.

Ms. Alexander's past experience includes service as a Veteran Service
Representative and Veteran Benefits Counselor for the St. Petersburg
VARO. In St. Louis, Missouri, she was a dental technician at the
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Jefferson Barracks and veterans
benefits counselor at St. Louis VARO. She holds a Bachelor of Science in
Social Work from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and an Associate
Degree in Science, Dental Hygiene, from St. Phillips College, Texas.

*Sherry L. Allen, M.Ed.*, is the Executive Director of the National
Network for Youth and the Southeastern Network of Youth and Family
Services. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of
Science in Mathematics and a Masters in Human Development Counseling.
She has over 20 years of experience in working with youth and families
as a teacher, youth worker, and counselor. Ms. Allen is a Licensed
Professional Counselor in the State of Tennessee. She has provided
trainings and consultation throughout the Southern and Northeastern
United States and Western Europe, with an emphasis on youth development,
community youth development, runaway and homeless youth issues,
parenting, leadership, and organizational development.

Lynnette S. Araki, M.P.H., is a Senior Health Policy Analyst in the
Office of Planning and Evaluation, Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA) and serves as the lead staff 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. Ms. Araki is the lead staff for
the HRSA Work Group on Homelessness, which is responsible for developing
and monitoring implementation of the Agency's work plan to address
homelessness in HRSA programs. Other cross-cutting projects for which
Ms. Araki is responsible include the HRSA Pacific Basin Initiative and
the Agency's External Emergency Response Team to assure continuity of
essential functions during a crisis or emergency.

Daniel Armstrong, Ph.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at
the University of Miami, where he is Associate Chair of the Department
of Pediatrics and Director of the Mailman Center for Child Development.
This Center is the University Center of Excellence in Developmental
Disabilities Education, Research, and Services in Florida, the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental
Disabilities program in Florida, and one of the Dyson Community
Pediatrics Training Initiative sites. He has served as the liaison to
the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of
Child and Family Health since 1995, and is lead or contributing author
on more than 12 AAP Policy Statements related to children and child
policy. He was a representative to the 1999 AAP-sponsored Consensus
Conference on Children's Access to Mental Health Services, and served as
a consultant on two occasions to the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academies of Sciences, and to several institutes at the NIH. He
is a member of the NCI's PDQ Supportive Care Editorial Board. Dr.
Armstrong has a particular interest in services for children of diverse
ethnic and/or linguistic backgrounds, and in service delivery models for
children living in poverty.

Lawrence Bartlett, Ph.D., is the Director of Health Systems Research,
Inc., a firm that helps national, State, and local policymakers weigh
their options and make more informed decisions concerning health and
human service policies and programs. The firm works collaboratively with
its public and private sector clients to develop and implement
innovative strategies to improve the health and social well-being of
individuals, families, and communities. Dr. Bartlett is an economist who
brings to these efforts more than 25 years of experience in health
services research, evaluation, and policy analysis and in providing
"hands-on" technical assistance to State and local governments and
private sector clients. Because Dr. Bartlett's technical expertise is
combined with strong group facilitation skills, he is often called upon
to provide assistance to governors' blue ribbon commissions, legislative
task forces, and local health care coalitions.

In addition to his work with numerous States and localities, Dr.
Bartlett has served as a consultant to a variety of national
organizations, including the National Governors' Association, the
National Conference of State Legislators, the American Association of
Retired Persons, the Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
and the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. He formerly was the staff
director of the State Medicaid Directors' Association and the director
of the National Governors' Association's State Medicaid Information
Center. Dr. Bartlett holds a Doctorate in Economics and a Master's in
Health Services Administration.

Patricia Carlile is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs
responsible for managing approximately \$3 billion in new and existing
HUD grants that serve homeless people and others who are at risk of
becoming homeless, along with persons with HIV/AIDS. She oversees the
annual Continuum of Care homeless assistance competition that entails
the review of over 4,000 applications. The programs that she administers
provide for a continuum of assistance that includes permanent supportive
housing, transitional housing, emergency shelter, supportive services,
and prevention. The President's goal to end chronic homelessness within
ten years is a primary focus of the office. Earlier, under the first
Bush Administration, Ms. Carlile was Executive Director of the
Interagency Council on the Homeless, coordinating the homeless
activities of 17 Federal agencies. She has served in several other
senior positions in the Federal Government.

Previously, Ms. Carlile owned her own management and executive search
consulting firm, providing advice and guidance to corporate executives
in an array of industries, including health care, high technology,
housing, manufacturing, and real estate development, as well as
associations and the Federal government. She created the congressionally
mandated, industry- sponsored Commodities Futures Regulatory Association
and helped to restructure an international affordable housing systems
engineering company. Ms. Carlile later became a partner of an
international executive search firm and opened its Washington, D.C.
office. She began her consulting career with Ernst & Young, an
international management consulting firm. Ms. Carlile received her
Bachelor of Arts from Pace University and a Masters of Liberal Studies
at Georgetown University. She is originally from Texas.

*Clarence L. Carter* was appointed to serve as Director of the Federal
Office of Community Services (OCS) by President George Bush on June 25,
2001. As chief executive, Mr. Carter provides the Agency with direction
and leadership in its provision of community-based support services for
low-income Americans.

The Office of Community Services is a \$5 billion Federal agency, within
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The 12 programs of OCS
build the capacity of low-income people and strengthen communities.
Among the programs are: the Community Services Block Grant, the Social
Services Block Grant, the Community Economic Development Program, the
Individual Development Account Program, and the Community Food &
Nutrition Program.

For the past 20 years, Mr. Carter has had the distinction of being
appointed to serve the administrations of two Presidents and three
Governors in various senior-level positions in a variety of State and
Federal agencies. Prior to the OCS appointment, Mr. Carter was appointed
by Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore in January 2000 to serve as the
first Executive Director of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation.
Before that, Mr. Carter served as Commissioner of the Virginia
Department of Social Services. In that capacity, he was responsible for
the administration of a statewide organization with 1,500 employees and
an annual operating budget in excess of \$1 billion. The hallmark of his
Social Services tenure was the successful implementation of the
Commonwealth\'s landmark welfare reform initiatives. Fully implemented
two years ahead of schedule, the program was instrumental in cutting the
public assistance roles by more than half, from an all-time high of
74,000 families receiving AFDC/TANF to a 30-year low of 31,000. In the
first five years of the program, more than 25,000 public assistance
recipients obtained gainful employment, earning in excess of \$200
million.

Mr. Carter is frequently asked to comment on public issues and has been
a guest on CNN\'s Crossfire, and Both Sides with Jesse Jackson,
C-SPAN\'s Morning Roundtable, and BET\'s Our Voices and Lead Story. He
has testified before congressional committees on a number of human
service topics including the restructuring of the Food Stamps Program
and the future of the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation
Opportunity Act (PRWROA). Mr. Carter has also served as an adjunct
instructor at Virginia Union University, teaching a class on welfare
reform and the role of the church and community-based organizations.

Charles S. (Chick) Ciccolella is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Veterans Employment and Training at the U.S. Department of Labor. His
agency, VETS, is responsible for helping veterans secure employment and
for protecting their rights and benefits through a variety of new and
existing programs. Prior to coming to the Department of Labor, he served
in the U.S. Senate as the Chief of Operations for the Senate Sergeant at
Arms and later as Assistant Staff Director and Director of Information
Technology Policy at the Senate Rules Committee. Before coming to the
Senate, Mr. Ciccolella spent 28 years in the U.S. Army, including
service in Vietnam, Germany, and Panama, leaving as a full colonel.

**Jose Cintron** is the Senior Public Trust Officer of HOPE VI grants
and serves on a team that manages all matters concerning seven HOPE VI
grants at five public housing authorities. Mr. Cintron works closely
with housing authorities, local organizations, and residents\' councils
to ensure that program functions are operating and on schedule. As
Office Development Coordinator, he works with public housing authorities
on the development and acquisition of affordable housing, including
assisted living facilities and homes. Mr. Cintron\'s duties include
financial literacy programs for low-income residents. He is part of a
team working on a special Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Smart
Money Initiative.

Previously, Mr. Cintron served as the HUD Florida State Coordinator
since 1995. In that role, he managed an expansion of the Miami HUD
Office that more than doubled in size and now provides full service to
all of HUD's partners in South Florida. Before becoming the HUD Florida
State Coordinator, Mr. Cintron served as the Secretary's Representative
for New York and New Jersey. Based in New York City, he was responsible
for coordinating the work of five offices located in the two States.
Prior to his HUD experience, Mr. Cintron devoted more than 17 years of
his professional career to serving the people of the City of New York.

*Emily Cooper* is an Associate with Technical Assistance Collaborative,
Inc. (TAC). Ms. Cooper's focus is affordable housing for homeless people
and people with disabilities. She works with nonprofit agencies to
troubleshoot and evaluate supportive housing programs and helps local
and State governments develop and implement strategic plans to address
the needs of vulnerable populations. She also provides customized
trainings, develops comprehensive publications, and disseminates
information on housing policy. Prior to joining TAC, Ms. Cooper
administered multiple service-enriched housing programs for homeless and
disabled persons for the Massachusetts Department of Housing and
Community Development; was a U.S. Public Health Service intern with the
Federal Center for Mental Health Services; and directly provided
services for families and individuals living in shelters, inpatient
facilities, and low-income housing.

Randy Cooper is a Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Labor,
Office of Disability Employment Policy.

Anne Cory currently serves as the President and Chief Professional
Officer of the United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra, a United
Way working in collaboration with 70 partner agencies and raising \$3.25
million annually. Ms. Cory provides human services leadership for
northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe Basin in a variety of ways. She
attended the first Policy Academy on homeless families with children, as
well as the fifth Policy Academy on the chronically homeless. Since its
inception, Ms. Cory has facilitated the Policy Academy Team of Nevada in
her role as Vice Chair. She also represents homeless services providers
in the northern part of the State as the leader of the Reno Area
Alliance for the Homeless.

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Prior to serving at United Way, Ms. Cory worked as the Vice President of
Planned Parenthood of Mar Monte with a focus on Community and Business
Development and was a freelance human services consultant. As a private
consultant, she created a new primary care association; organized and
acquired funding for a "new start" Community Health Center; managed a
pilot project for National Health Service Corps, placing medical
students in underserved communities; and provided grant writing,
strategic planning, and program development consultation for nonprofit
agencies throughout Nevada.

Janet Coscarelli, Director of the Tennessee Head Start State
Collaboration Office, has been in this position for the last three years
and is highly conversant with the philosophy, history, performance
standards, and administration of Head Start programs. Prior to joining
the Collaboration Office, she was the Assistant Executive Director of
the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, a statewide child
advocacy agency. She also directed a Tennessee Department of Health
statewide program for children with disabilities and served as a
Department of Health and Human Services Head Start Fellow stationed in
Washington, D.C. She has served on the faculty of Vanderbilt University,
Nashville and taught courses to masters- level students. Ms. Coscarelli
has a Masters degree from Vanderbilt University and holds dual
certification in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology from the
American Speech-Language Hearing Association. She has 20 years
experience providing diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative
services to young children with communication and hearing disorders.

Ms. Coscarelli is a recognized speaker and trainer and has presented at
international, national and State conferences. She is a published author
and has developed appropriate materials for teachers' use in early
childhood classrooms that focus on speech-language enrichment and
reading readiness.

Rayanne F. Darensbourg, M.P.A., is a Family and Youth Program Specialist
with the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. Her responsibilities include grants
management for the Runaway and Homeless Youth and the Mentoring Children
of Prisoners Programs. Prior to her service at DHHS, she was a
Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development. At HUD, she worked with homeless grant programs
administered through the Office of Community Planning and Development.

Prior to her Federal service, Ms. Darensbourg served as Program Director
for a community--based pilot summer program for children with
disabilities at Dillard University in New Orleans and interned with the
City of Newport News, Office on Youth Development in Virginia. She has
also taught students with disabilities at local public schools in New
Orleans and Norfolk.

Amy Davis is responsible for the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education
Assistance Program at the Oklahoma State Department of Education. Her
role as the State Coordinator for Homeless Education is to provide
technical assistance to 541 school districts regarding the
McKinney-Vento Act, which ensures that homeless children and youth have
access to the same educational opportunities as other students.
Responsibilities also include overseeing subgrant programs for six
districts under the Act. Additional duties within the agency include
monitoring ten counties under Title I, Part A and 19 Even Start family
literacy programs under *No Child Left Behind.*

Deborah Dennis, M.A., is Vice President for Technical Assistance at
Policy Research Associates (PRA) in Delmar, New York. She is the project
manager on PRA's contracts and subcontracts related to homelessness and
housing, including the National Resource Center on Homelessness and
Mental Illness (since 1988), the Health Care for the Homeless
Information Resource Center (since 1996), the CMHS Supported Housing
Initiative, the CMHS/CSAT Homeless Families Program, and the PATH
Technical Assistance Program. She has written extensively on the housing
and support service needs of persons who have been homeless and who have
behavioral health disorders. Prior to joining PRA in 1988, she worked as
a research scientist in the New York State Office of Mental Health,
where she evaluated programs for people with serious mental illnesses
who were homeless.

Peter Hansen Dougherty serves as 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 VA\'s
internal homeless working group and the Department\'s Advisory Committee
on Homeless Veterans. Prior to joining 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 veterans issues by the National Coalition for
Homeless Veterans, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration, and the VA, receiving the Meritorious Service Award in
2001.

## Anne Fletcher, M.P.A., M.S.W., is a Presidential Management Fellow working in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As an analyst working in the Office of Human Services Policy, she is responsible for projects that have an impact on the policy arena of homelessness and immigration. Previous work experience includes: the National Institutes of Health; consultant and researcher with the New York City Department of Mental Health; analyst with the U.S. General Accounting Office; social worker with Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC; and case manager in outpatient psychiatry at Harlem Hospital, New York City. She received both her degrees from Columbia University. 

Kay C. Floyd is Director of the Head Start State Collaboration Office,
in the Oklahoma Association of Community Action Agencies, which
facilitates partnerships with housing, homelessness, substance abuse,
mental health, and other community programs. As director of this
project, she works with leaders of State agencies, statewide groups, and
communities to initiate and support collaboration within the project\'s
eight priority areas that include improvement of Head Start services for
children and families experiencing homelessness. She served two terms on
the Oklahoma City Board of Education and ten years on the Board of
Directors of The Referral Center for Drug and Alcohol Treatment for
Central Oklahoma. Previous employment includes five years as the
lobbyist and director of board development for the Oklahoma State School
Boards Association and seven years as a registered medical technologist.

John Garrity, M.P.A., is the Director of the Office of Special Needs
Assistance Programs (SNAPs) at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD). Mr. Garrity brings over 20 years of experience
administering a variety of housing programs, including the former Urban
Homesteading and HOPE III Programs. He currently oversees policy and
program development for the six McKinney-Vento Act homeless assistance
programs administered by HUD. Mr. Garrity is also responsible for
implementing the award-winning "Continuum of Care" community-based
planning process. Selected as the winner of the Harvard University/Ford
Foundation "Innovations in Government" award in 1999, local Continuum of
Care systems are competitively funded through the award of over \$1.2
billion in HUD's homeless assistance program grants annually.

Janice Grady is a native Washingtonian who attended school in the
Washington area. She is a single mother who is helping to raise her
teenage granddaughter. She graduated from Catholic University, May 1999,
with a Bachelor of Arts degree in General Studies with a concentration
in Social Work. She has been employed as a professional nurse, a
substance abuse rehabilitation specialist, a construction worker (job
training in humility), and field organizer for the National Coalition
for the Homeless. She was employed at Community Connections as a
Consumer/Survivor/Recovery/Advocate Researcher and Director of the
Women's Support and Empowerment Center. She currently works as a
training specialist with the Office of Organizational Development, DMH
Training Institute, Washington, D.C.

Her life paths have traveled many obstacles, such as homelessness,
substance abuse, mental illness, and trauma. She is a trauma survivor
whose goal is to encourage others to become survivors.

Traci Gruenberger is the Director of Operations at Lutheran Social
Ministry of the Southwest (LSMS) in Arizona. She has been with LSMS
since 1998 and has worked in a variety of capacities within the
organization. She has worked in social services for over 12 years in
Arizona, as well as Wisconsin and New York . During this time, she has
worked with a variety of populations, including low-income individuals
and families, in need of services.

Beth Garriss Hardy, Ph.D., has 35+ years of experience as an educator,
including special education and general education classroom teaching,
leadership, and management positions in public and private schools, and
college/university teaching. Most recently, she was Program Director for
the Children, Families and Communities program at SERVE, the Regional
Educational Laboratory serving the Southeast. While at SERVE, Dr. Hardy
was responsible for the management of several projects addressing the
educational needs of marginalized student populations, including
preschool, migrant, special education, Title 1, homeless, and other
highly mobile and/or at-risk children and youth. Dr. Hardy was an
original author of the plan to create the National Center for Homeless
Education (NCHE), a national clearinghouse of research, information and
resources related to the educational needs of homeless children and
youth, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary
and Secondary Education. She is currently serving as NCHE's Interim
Director. Dr. Hardy holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro in Curriculum and Instruction, with a specialization in
the education of exceptional students.

Jane Harper is the President/CEO, Family Resources, Inc. Since 1980,
Jane has been a community and state advocate, committed to promoting
policies and practices that strengthen youth and families. During that
time she has played a strong leadership role in the development and
positioning of Family Resources to carry out its mission in support of
children, youth and families. In addition to providing services in
runaway/youth crisis shelters, counseling and in-home services, Family
Resources provides a variety of services in the public schools and the
community.

Jane has had a passion and been a visionary for Family Resources for
more than 22 years. As a consultant, counselor, coordinator, director,
and now president, Jane has been an advocate for youth and families on
both local and state levels since her early years. Focusing on the care
and development of youth, she has assisted families to understand the
cause and effect of their problems and become more productive in the
community. Jane has been honored for her dedication, service,
outstanding contributions, leadership, professional achievement and
creativity on behalf of children and introducing much-needed programs to
Pinellas County.

Jane currently serves as the Florida representative to the Southeastern
Network for Youth and Family Services and from that network was
appointed to serve on the National Council for Youth Policy committee of
the National Network for Youth. She is also a board member for the
Florida Network of Youth & Family Services and currently serves as the
Secretary/Treasurer of the Juvenile Welfare Board Council of Executives.
She is past president of the United Way Council of Agency Executives and
has served as Chairperson of the locally sponsored Abuse, Neglect and
Dependency Committee. Jane has also served on the District V Task Force
for Runaway and Troubled Youth, the Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force
and the District\'s Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention.
She is a graduate of the 1996 Class of Leadership St. Pete. Jane
celebrated her 22^nd^ year with Family Resources and her 13^th^ year as
President/CEO in 2002.

Jean L. Hochron, M.P.H., is the Team Leader for Special Populations in
the Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services
Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As
Team Leader, she oversees targeted programs that enhance the delivery of
health care services for individuals with special barriers to access.
Prior to her appointment to this position, she was the Director of the
Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Program, a \$130 million grant
program which supports the delivery of primary care and related services
to over 550,000 homeless persons per year through grants to local
provider organizations. In 1992-1994, Ms. Hochron was responsible for
the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH)
Program**,** a Federal formula grant program that supports the provision
of mental health and support services to homeless persons with serious
mental illnesses.

Mary Ellen Hombs is Deputy Director of the United States Interagency
Council\
on Homelessness. The Interagency Council on Homelessness is part of the
Domestic Policy Council with the Executive Office of the President and
is responsible for coordination of 20 Federal agencies in their response
to reduce and end homelessness. Prior to joining the Council, Ms. Hombs
was Executive Director of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter
Alliance, a statewide coalition of 85 agencies that operate over 250
programs for homeless people. She has more than 25 years of experience
in homeless advocacy and programs. She is author of numerous books and
articles on homelessness and holds a master's degree in city planning.

Mark Johnston, M.P.A., is the Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development's Office of Special Needs Assistance
Programs, which administers HUD's homeless assistance programs. Among
other responsibilities, he has served as Deputy Director of the Federal
Interagency Council on the Homeless. He has a Masters Degree in Public
Affairs from Indiana University at Bloomington, and a Bachelors Degree
in public policy from Brigham Young University.

Sean Kelly is a Workforce Development Analyst for the Office of
Workforce Investment, Employment and Training Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor. Mr. Kelly works on the Policy and Planning Team for
the Division of One-Stop Operations, where he is primarily responsible
for processing state WIA waiver requests. Prior to joining DOL, Sean
worked for a partner agency in the Washington, D.C. One-Stop system.

Brian Kennedy has been with Job Corps for over three years. Just prior
to moving to the Department of Labor, Mr. Kennedy worked at the White
House, where he was a Special Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy, at the National Economic Counsel. He advised the President on
job training, higher education, and labor policy.

Prior to working at the White House, Mr. Kennedy worked for more than
ten years on job training, labor, and education policy in the United
States Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. After two years
serving as the General Counsel to United States Senator Harry Reid, he
moved to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, where he
served as Senator Paul Simon's Staff Director of the Subcommittee on
Employment and Productivity. The Subcommittee had jurisdiction over
Federal job training programs. While he served as Staff Director, Mr.
Kennedy led Senate efforts to pass Job Training Partnership Act
Amendments, and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act. In 1995, after
Senator Simon announced his retirement, Mr. Kennedy moved to the House
of Representatives' Committee on Education Workforce, where he served as
Labor Coordinator and Counsel. During his tenure in the House of
Representatives, Mr. Kennedy was instrumental in the passage of the
Workforce Investment Act. Mr. Kennedy received his Bachelor of Science
Degree from James Madison University in 1982, where he graduated with
honors. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia
School of Law in 1985.

Kate King, M.P.A., has managed Medicaid programs or conducted health
policy analysis on issues related to the organization, financing, or
service delivery for long-term care and other special populations for 27
years. As a Health Insurance Specialist at the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, she is currently working on
several projects under the President's New Freedom Initiative. Prior to
Federal service, she served in the Maryland Medicaid program for 17
years, consulted at major health organizations while completing her
doctoral residency at Brandeis University, and was a policy analyst at
the Institute of Medicine for five years. She currently has a fellowship
on Balancing Long-Term Care Systems sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation.

Margaret Lassiter is the project coordinator for multiple projects
related to housing and homelessness at Policy Research Associates, Inc.
(PRA). Her current projects include coordinating the Center for Mental
Health Services' contract to provide technical assistance to the
Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program;
coordinating the technical assistance provided to States that have
attended a Federal Policy Academy on homelessness (under subcontract to
Health Systems Research, Inc.); and coordinating (with Vanderbilt
University) aspects of the Center for Mental Health Services' Supported
Housing Initiative, a multisite study of housing approaches for persons
with serious mental illness. Prior to joining PRA, Ms. Lassiter was
responsible for conducting program evaluations of education initiatives
across New York State, including magnet schools, Goals 2000 programs,
School-to-Work initiatives, implementation of New York State standards,
bilingual education, and family literacy.

Walter Leginski, Ph.D., is on assignment to the Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services (DHHS), as a Senior Advisor on Homelessness. He is
located within ASPE's Office of Human Services Policy and is responsible
for the coordination and development of policies that address
homelessness throughout the programs of the Department.

Prior to his assignment in ASPE, Dr. Leginski served for seven years as
the chief of homeless programs for persons with mental illnesses in the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, DHHS. His
career in the National Institute of Mental Health was directed to
improving the ability of States and localities to manage and evaluate
mental health delivery systems by the application of information systems
technologies. Dr. Leginski received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University
and held positions in academia and health consulting prior to joining
Federal service.

Philip F. Mangano is the Executive Director of the United States
Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH). The Interagency Council is
under the authority of the Assistant to the President for Domestic
Policy within the Executive Office of the President. Members of the
Council are cabinet secretaries. ICH coordinates the activities of 15
Federal agencies to improve the delivery of housing and services to
homeless individuals and families. Congress established the ICH in 1987
to help streamline the government's approach to homelessness by
coordinating multiple efforts of Federal agencies and other designated
groups. ICH can recommend improvements in programs and activities
conducted by Federal, State, and local government as well as local and
volunteer organizations. The Interagency Council is charged with the
prevention and reduction of homelessness.

Prior to his appointment by President Bush to lead the Interagency
Council on Homelessness, 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 that serve
homeless people through permanent housing, transitional programs,
emergency shelters, outreach, economic development, and health programs.
During the 12 years Mr. Mangano led MHSA, the organization coordinated a
statewide continuum of care strategy for prevention and intervention.
This strategy focused on the provision of next-step residential,
housing, service, and employment options for homeless individuals. MHSA
was awarded the 2001 "Nonprofit Sector Achievement Award" from the
National Alliance to End Homelessness.

For his work with homeless people, Mr. Mangano has received numerous
awards and recognitions from media outlets, State agencies, and
community organizations. He has been named a "City Light" by the Boston
Globe, and received many community achievement recognitions, including
citations and awards from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the City

of Boston, the City of Cambridge, the Massachusetts Department of Mental
Health and Public Health, United Way, Social Action Ministries, the
Boston Rescue Mission, and the Black Pastors of Cambridge.

Stephen Metraux, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Health Policy at the
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He received his Ph.D. in
Sociology in 2002 at the University of Pennsylvania and his research
interests include homelessness and housing policy, mental illness, urban
poverty, and research applications for administrative datasets. Dr.
Metraux\'s current research includes a geographic analysis of community
integration among persons with mental illness, community outcomes of
released prisoners, and HIV/AIDS risks among indigent people with
alcohol and drug problems.

Ruby Neville is a senior public health advisor and project officer for
the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant Program in the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration\'s Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT), Division of State and Community
Assistance. Since 1994, her Federal career in the public health service
includes her work with the Health Resources Services Administration's
(HRSA\'s) former Community Health Centers Program and the later Health
Centers Consolidation Program. During her tenure at HRSA, Ms. Neville
worked as a project officer for the Health Care for the Homeless
Program, the Outreach and Primary Health Services for Homeless Children
Program, the Public Housing Health Care Program, and the Healthy
Schools, Healthy Communities Program targeting children at risk of
homelessness. She has been engaged in numerous efforts to build Federal
collaboration among advocacy organizations seeking to improve the health
status of vulnerable populations. Such efforts have led to Ms.
Neville\'s involvement in SAMHSA-HRSA activities to support and enhance
the integration of comprehensive health care services for vulnerable
populations to foster quality outcomes in asthma management, mental
health, substance abuse, and primary care.

Jane Nystrom is the Special Projects Coordinator for the Department of
Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families,
Office of Community Services (OCS). She leads major initiatives for the
OCS and Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (FBCI) and is Lead
Regional Administrator working on national projects in both OCS and
FBCI. Ms. Nystrom coordinates activities that provide program funding
and resources as well as specific outreach resources and activities to
faith-based and community organizations working with the OCS Liaisons
and FBCI Lead Liaisons housed in the 10 DHHS Regional Offices. Most
recently, Ms. Nystrom has also been working with the Administration for
Children and Families (ACF) Healthy Marriage Initiative and the African
American Healthy Marriage Initiative.

Ms. Nystrom has been with the Federal government for over 29 years,
working with stakeholders and partners at the Federal, State and local
levels in such areas as welfare, job training and partnership, child
care, Medicaid, emergency assistance, refugee assistance, Head Start,
Community Services Block Grant, and other areas that assist families in
need.

Ms. Nystrom received her Bachelors Degree from the University of Texas
and completed graduate work at Boston, Northeastern, and Denver
Universities, and has completed coursework in mediation and arbitration
training.

Richard Nystrom, M.A., is a Management Analyst for the Health and Human
Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Region V,
Chicago. He plans, controls, and accounts for the results of assigned
projects. As the Office of Community Services Liaison for ACF Region V
Project Officer and Contract Officer's Technical Representative, he
controls and directs contractor staff through the contractor task
leader. He contributes his analytical skills to regional and national
plans and projects. He has led many grantee selection and contract
technical review panels. He advises and assists ACF Region V procurement
processes. Mr. Nystrom has been the Executive Officer in ACF Region VIII
Denver, Program Liaison Specialist in Region V Chicago, Supervisory
Child and Families Program Specialist, Head Start Program Specialist and
has held several positions in the Social Security Administration. He has
managed and supervised program, financial management, administrative,
and computer systems staff. He was a caseworker and taught in an urban
elementary school in Chicago. At various times, he has represented and
advised both labor and management in grievance proceedings and labor
negotiations. Mr. Nystrom has lectured and has provided technical
assistance to Federal grantees extensively. He also has represented the
Federal position on radio, television, and in the print media.

Mr. Nystrom has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, a Master of
Arts in History, and is a Head Start Johnson & Johnson Management
Fellow. He has done graduate studies in urban education, the psychology
and sociology of poverty, and social work. He has served as a volunteer
and on the Boards of social service, faith-based, and community
organizations.

Charles \"Chuck\" O'Malley, Ph.D., currently serves as consultant to the
Office of the Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education. His
responsibilities include representing the Department of Education at
Interagency Council on Homelessness (ICH) Senior Policy meetings and
drafting the Department\'s strategic plan for addressing chronic
homelessness.

He was previously employed as a consultant to Sylvan Educational
Services and was one of the founders of the National Council for Private
School Accreditation. Dr. O\'Malley served as NCPSA Executive Director
(1993-1998) and as Executive Assistant for Private Education to three
U.S. Secretaries of Education: Terrell \"Ted\" Bell, William Bennett,
and Lauro Cavazos. He also served as Coordinator of Private Education
Services for the Florida Department of Education, Coordinator of
Education for the Florida Catholic Conference, and Assistant
Superintendent for Governmental Programs, Catholic Archdiocese of Miami.

Dr. O\'Malley has also taught school and served as an athletic director,
athletic and debate coach, and physical education instructor with
schools in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Chicago, Illinois. He held
positions as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco,
and visiting lecturer at Lynchburg College, Virginia, Georgia Southern
University, and the University of South Carolina.

He has served as a contributing editor with the Center for Research in
Private Education and the National Rural and Small Schools Consortium.
His many articles have appeared in such publications as Education Week,
Private School Quarterly, Today\'s Catholic Teacher, Jewish Education,
the Kappan, Momentum, Journal of Christian Education, Manhattan
Institute Network News & Views, Private School Administrator, and
Private School Monitor. He holds a Doctorate in Postsecondary Education
Leadership from Florida State University.

Patricia A. Post, M.P.A., 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, Tennessee. 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). Both
documents were published by the National Council, with support from the
Bureau of Primary Health Care, Health Resources and Services
Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She 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 Medicaid Reform Committee 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 and as a consultant to the Vanderbilt University
Center for Health Services' Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker
(MIHOW) project.

Captain Melissa Rael is an Officer with the United States Public Health
Service in the Nurse Category. She has been with SAMHSA/CSAT for eleven
years and has worked with Women and Children discretionary grant
programs, including Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Pregnant
Women and Postpartum Women and their Infants and Children and
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for Women and their Children. She
was the lead Project Officer for a SAMHSA three-Center Federally-funded
knowledge development project for five years, Women, Co-Occurring
Disorders with Histories of Violence, and an adjunct children's study
with the children of the women who participated in the project.
Currently, she is a Project Officer for CSAT's Homeless Treatment grants
with a specific grantee cluster comprising grantee sites targeting
homeless families, women, and children, and is the CSAT Project Officer
for a Center for Mental Health Services/CSAT collaborative on a
Federally-funded knowledge development project, the Homeless Families
Program.

Brenda Lee Richardson, M.S.W., a resident of Washington, D.C. and an
eco-feminist, has been working on welfare reform, environmental justice,
economic development, and health for the past 20 years. Ms. Richardson
is President of Women Like Us, Inc., where she champions women's issues
and environmental stewardship. Women Like Us has operated the largest
family shelter, the Park Road Facility, in the District of Columbia for
the last two and a half years. The shelter provides transitional housing
for 45 homeless families for 90 to 180 days. The services provided to
families are case management, housing coordination, and community
building. Ms. Richardson has also served on the Mayor's Task Force on
Transportation and Economic Development, the Mayor's Health Policy
Council, and the Mayor's Environmental Council. She has a Bachelor of
Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a Masters
in Social Work from the University of Maryland.

Lawrence Rickards, Ph.D., is the Director of Clinical Initiatives in the
Homeless Programs Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services
(CMHS). In this role, he is responsible for developing and monitoring
programs to meet the treatment and support services needs of homeless
persons with mental illnesses and with co-occurring substance use
disorder and mental illness. He also is the Co-Occurring Disorders
Program Manager for CMHS initiatives that address co-occurring mental
illness and substance abuse. Currently, Dr. Rickards is the team leader
for the CMHS/Center for Substance Abuse Treatment collaboration that is
evaluating interventions targeted to homeless women with psychiatric
and/or substance use disorders who are caring for their dependent
children. He has been at CMHS since 1992. He earned a Doctorate in
Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland.

Betty S. Ritchie is the Administration for Children and Families, Region
IV Program Specialist working with the State and Tribal TANF and Child
Care Development Funds (CCDF) programs. She is responsible for oversight
of the Alabama and Florida TANF and CCDF programs and the Poarch Band of
Creek Indians and the Miccosukee Tribal CCDF programs. She is also the
HHS representative for the Regional Interagency Council on Homelessness.

Daniel M. Robbin, L.C.S.W., works for the Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) in the Miami VA Medical Center where he serves as the VISN 8
Network Homeless Coordinator. Mr. Robbins works closely with the local
Health Care for Homeless Veterans programs (HCHV) in Florida and
Southern Georgia. He also serves as the point of contact for the VA
Community Homeless Providers Grant and Per Diem programs.

Vicky T. Robinson, M.B.A., is a native of Tacoma, Washington. Ms.
Robinson began her career in public service for the State of
Washington's Department of Social and Health Services. Ms. Robinson
helped train staff on Food Stamp, Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families, and Medicaid program policies and provided policy
clarifications. She also created a Food Stamp Program accuracy unit to
help reduce the State's error rate and aided the design of a food stamp
assessment to establish the training needs of program staff. As a
program manager for Washington State, Ms. Robinson wrote administrative
rules and developed issue briefs for management. Ms. Robinson also lead
the Simplified New Application Project (SNAP) by creating a
cross-divisional workgroup to shorten and simplify Washington State's
application for benefits form to help improve client service and to
increase program access.

As a program analyst for the Food and Nutrition Service, Ms. Robinson
participated in the implementation of the restoration of Food Stamp
Program benefits to legal immigrants established under the 2002 Farm
Bill and helped develop and deliver training to New York program staff.
She is currently creating a Homeless Access Guide for stakeholders and
implementing an e-business plan to bring the Program Development
Division's Certification Policy Branch current in using available
technology to improve program administration. Ms. Robinson has a Masters
of Business Administration from Auburn University and a Bachelor of
Science from Jacksonville State University.

Debra J. Rog, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate with Vanderbilt
University's Institute for Public Policy Studies (VIPPS) and has been
the director of the Washington office of the Center for Mental Health
Policy since 1990. Dr. Rog received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from
Vanderbilt University and has over 20 years of experience designing and
implementing evaluation and applied research studies in a range of
settings involving issues of mental health, poverty, homelessness,
housing, and services for vulnerable populations. Prior to joining
VIPPS, she served as the Associate Director in the National Institute of
Mental Health Office of Programs for the Homeless Mentally Ill on a
three-year special expert appointment. In this post, she developed the
first research and multi-site evaluation initiatives for programs
serving homeless persons with severe mental illness funded under the
Stewart B. McKinney Act. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator of
a Coordinating Center for the Center for Mental Services' Housing
Initiative for Persons with Serious Mental Illness, a Coordinating
Center for the Centers for Mental Health Services and for the Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment's Homeless Families Initiative, and two
foundation-funded cross-site evaluations of local collaboratives focused
on violence prevention.

A recognized methodologist and evaluator, Dr. Rog has to her credit
numerous publications on evaluation methodology, housing, homelessness,
poverty, mental health, and program and policy development. She has been
co-editor of the *Applied Social Research Methods Series* since 1980, a
series that has produced over 50 volumes on both quantitative and
qualitative research topics. She is also the co-editor of the *Handbook
of Applied Social Research Methods* and a co-author of a book on
*Applied Research Design*. She is on the editorial board of several
evaluation and research journals and on two current encyclopedias (one
on homelessness; one on evaluation) and is a frequent reviewer of grant
proposals for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others. She
has served on the Board of Directors of the American Evaluation
Association and is a member of the American Psychological Association,
the American Psychological Society, and the American Public Health
Association. She completed an appointment on the Advisory Committee of
Women's Services for SAMHSA, and has been recognized for her evaluation
work by the National Institute of Mental Health, the American Evaluation
Association, the Eastern Evaluation Research Society, and the Knowledge
Utilization Society.

Marianne Savarese-Feliciano is the coordinator of the Health Care for
the Homeless (HCH) program that is affiliated with the City of
Manchester Health Department in New Hampshire and is attending as part
of the New Hampshire State Team. In addition to her many years of
experience in New Hampshire, she was part of the HCH movement at its
very beginning (when it was a Robert Wood Johnson demonstration) and is
an editor of one of the very first books about homeless health care,
*Under the Safety Net*.

Starleen Scott-Robbins, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., has been in the substance
abuse field since 1985 and has worked in various treatment modalities
over the past 19 years. She has worked for the North Carolina Division
of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse
Services since December 1994. In her role with the division, Ms. Robbins
is responsible for the management of State and Federal funds that
support several statewide initiatives designed to provide specialized
substance abuse services to women, coordination of a statewide capacity
management system for pregnant women and women with dependent children,
and provision of technical assistance to programs statewide. She is
currently serving as the lead on the implementation of the new service
standards package, which supports the reform efforts in North Carolina's
mental health system.

Ms. Robbins has participated in several national projects including the
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) National Consensus Panel:
Substance Abuse Treatment: Addressing the Special Needs of Women; the
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
CASAWORKS for Families National Advisory Board; and the CSAT National
Consensus Panel: Screening, Assessment and Outreach for Welfare
Recipients.

She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from St. Lawrence
University in Canton, New York and her Masters in Social Work from
Adelphi University.

Barbara Singleton, L.C.S.W., has worked with homeless women for many
years in her current position at the Miami VA Medical Center and other
positions in Social Work. Her role has included providing a wide range
of social services for homeless women (i.e. housing/shelter,
transportation, food, financial assistance, accessing VA benefits and
care, and therapist/group facilitating in substance abuse treatment, in
addition to referrals for mental health and substance abuse treatment,
and advocacy. Ms. Singleton has been extensively involved in providing
clinical assessments and referrals for military and civilian sexual
trauma and domestic violence. Additionally, she provides training for VA
staff on identifying, making assessments, and referrals for abuse,
neglect and exploitation for veterans, which includes homeless women.
Her role as the Women Veterans Program Manager involves networking and
case management with the VA Mental Health Outreach Program (Homeless
Veterans Program). Ms. Singleton has also coordinated outreach
activities with local homeless shelters, domestic violence and other
community programs to assist women veterans in accessing appropriate
services.

Leslie Spencer-Applewhite is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is
the Coordinator of the Miami VA Medical Center Health Care for Homeless
Veterans Program. Ms. Spencer-Applewhite has worked with homeless
veterans for the past 10 years. She has also worked with dually
diagnosed veterans.

Mack Storrs is a Senior Policy Analyst in the Office of Family
Assistance (OFA), Administration for Children and Families, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, responsible for providing
policy guidance for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
Program. From 1991 through 1999, he was the Director of the Division of
Self-Sufficiency in OFA, with responsibility for Federal oversight of
the TANF program and the former programs of Aid to Families with
Dependent Children (AFDC), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS),
and Emergency Assistance programs.

Prior to that, Mack served as a management analyst in the Office of the
Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget and in the Executive
Office of Management and Budget. He was the Executive Assistant to the
Associate Commissioner, Office of Hearings and Appeal in the Social
Security Administration. Earlier, he was the Director of Program
Operations in the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). His career
with the Department began as the Chief of AFDC Quality Control in the
San Francisco Regional Office. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political
Science from Utah State University and has conducted graduate work at
the University of Arizona.

Jane A. Taylor, Ph.D., began serving as the Chief of the Co-occurring
and Homeless Activities Branch, Division of State and Community
Assistance, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Department of Health
and Human Services in 2002. From 1997-2002, Dr. Taylor served as the
Director of the Division of Practice and Systems Development,
SAMHSA/CSAT. She is responsible for developing, planning, implementing,
and monitoring targeted capacity expansion and other services activities
and studies designed to increase the identification, adoption, and
implementation of best practices, and services capacity. These
activities are conducted to improve substance abuse treatment for the
homeless and co-occurring disorders populations, both clinical
interventions and systems of care, throughout the United States. Dr.
Taylor\'s previous Federal experience includes serving as public health
advisor, health science administrator, and psychologist for the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She also has held several
other positions within SAMHSA, including Director of the Office of
Extramural Activities Review. Prior to entering the Federal service, Dr.
Taylor completed her postdoctoral residency at St. Elizabeth's Hospital
in Washington, D.C. In Columbia, South Carolina, she served as the Chief
Addictions Specialist and Branch Chief for Outreach, Aftercare, and
Follow-up at the Earle E. Morris, Jr. Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Treatment Center, and also served as a probation officer in the Richland
County Family Court. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from the
University of North Carolina and a Masters and Doctorate in Counselor
Education from the University of South Carolina.

Bill Vanderwall is statewide Director of Housing Services at Lutheran
Social Service (LSS) of Minnesota. The Housing Services department at
LSS works with many partners including government, faith groups, and
other organizations in assisting homeless families, people at risk of
homelessness, and low income families in finding and securing affordable
housing. LSS Housing Services works in many ways to connect people with
housing - from case management of families in crisis, to creating
relationships with rental property owners, by partnering with other
organizations, and by participating in the development of housing units.

Bill also is President of the Phillips-Park Initiative, a community
housing development initiative in the Phillips neighborhood of
Minneapolis now under construction, and Board Vice Chair of the
HousingLink, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting low income
renters with available housing opportunities in the Twin City area.

Linda Weinreb**, M.D.,** is Vice Chair of the Department Family Medicine
and Community Health, and Professor of Family Medicine and Community
Health and Pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
A board certified family physician, Dr. Weinreb has extensive experience
as a medical educator, clinician, and researcher. In her current role,
Dr. Weinreb oversees the department's research efforts and community
health-related education and service activities.

Dr. Weinreb has extensive expertise in the development, implementation,
and evaluation of comprehensive service interventions for homeless and
low-income-housed families and children. Prior to coming to
Massachusetts, Dr. Weinreb directed San Francisco's St. Anthony
Foundation Medical Clinic, an urban health and support services program
for homeless adults and families that was recognized by the Institute of
Medicine for its innovative model. For the past 17 years, Dr. Weinreb
has provided oversight and direction to the nationally recognized
Worcester Homeless Families Program (WHFP). The WHFP, based at the
Family Health Center, a Federally funded community health center,
provides integrated and family-centered health, mental health, and
support services to the community's homeless mothers and their children.
Dr. Weinreb is currently Principal Investigator of two grants from the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, one to
evaluate the efficacy of the WHFP model, and the other, to expand and
integrate additional adult and child mental health services into the
WHFP.

Dr. Weinreb is recognized nationally as an expert on the health and
support needs of homeless families. In addition to her extensive program
development and evaluation experience, Dr. Weinreb served as
Co-Principal Investigator of a seven-year, National Institute of Mental
Health-funded, longitudinal study conducted from 1991-1998 of homeless
and low-income- housed mothers and children in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Dr. Weinreb also has substantial expertise in approaches to integrating
mental health care into primary health care settings and is Principal
Investigator of a Robert Wood Johnson grant to implement effective
treatment models for depression in primary care. Dr. Weinreb has
published extensively in journals, including the *Journal of the
American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health,* and
*Pediatrics,* and is frequently invited to speak at national meetings.

Marsha Werner is the Federal manager for the Social Services Block Grant
program at the Office of Community Services, Administration for Children
and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has
extensive experience as a program and management analyst and has a
Bachelor of Arts from Simmons College.

Carol Wilkins, M.P.P., 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 20 years of experience in
public finance, human services, and policy work, including work with the
California Legislature's Office of the Legislative Analyst and 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 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 the U.S. Departments
of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services. She was
a member of the expert panel convened by the General Accounting Office
on homelessness and barriers to using mainstream programs.

Carlis V. Williams serves as the Southeast Regional Administrator for
the Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Children
and Families (ACF) based in Atlanta, Georgia. She leads a staff of 85,
and oversees an annual budget of over \$6 billion. She is responsible
for ACF human service programs including Head Start, Child Welfare,
Foster Care, Adoption, Child Care, Developmental Disabilities, Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families, Child Support, and Runaway and Homeless
Youth.

Before assuming her present position, Ms. Williams was the Executive
Assistant to the Governor for Human Services in the State of Indiana.
She was the Governor\'s chief policy advisor in human service areas and
had responsibility for four major agencies: Family and Social Services
Administration, the Governor\'s Council on Disabilities, the Governor\'s
Council on Protection and Advocacy, and the Governor\'s Council on
Sports and Fitness. She was instrumental in launching Indiana's
nationally recognized Children's Health Insurance Program, Hoosier
Healthwise, which enrolled over 120, 000 children in its first year. She
was also the catalyst for major changes in the areas of early childhood
development, adoption, fatherhood, and support for low- income working
families in the State of Indiana.

Previously, Ms. Williams served as Deputy Director for the Indiana
Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Family and
Children, and was responsible for programs related to family resources:
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Food Stamps, Medicaid, Job
Opportunities and Basic Skills Training, and Housing and Community
Services. She also had lead responsibility for the design and
implementation of welfare reform in the State.

Ms. Williams has worked in the community for many years as a volunteer
in the areas of education and mental health. She has been on numerous
boards and committees that focus on issues surrounding race relations,
parenting, education, economic development, community involvement, and
many others. She has experience in the private sector as a consultant in
marketing and telecommunications. She has also been in private practice
as a counselor/therapist in areas related to personal growth and
positive functioning. Ms. Williams is a graduate of Ball State
University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology and Master of
Arts Degrees in Social Psychology and Counseling and Guidance.

Francine Williams, M.A., is the Center Director for the National
Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, operated by Policy
Research Associates, Inc. (PRA) in Delmar, New York, under contract to
the U.S. Center for Mental Health Services. She is responsible for
managing and overseeing all of the Resource Center's technical
assistance, knowledge synthesis and knowledge application activities.
Prior to this, Ms. Williams 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.

Don Winstead is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Services Policy
in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at
the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). 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.

Prior to joining DHHS in 2001, Mr. Winstead worked for 30 years with the
Florida Department of Children and Families. He began as a frontline
caseworker and worked in a variety of direct service, administrative,
and managerial positions in Florida, ranging from social worker to
deputy secretary. Since 1995, he has served as Welfare Reform
Administrator and coordinated the agency's successful implementation of
the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

Mr. Winstead also coordinated the agency's work on implementation of the
State Children's Health Insurance Program and led a team that developed
legislation leading to a comprehensive reorganization of the department.

Phyllis Wolfe, M.A., L.C.S.W., is a Special Expert in the Homeless
Programs Branch, Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services. She has over 25 years of direct work in support of
individuals who are homeless, including policy, program, practice,
research, and advocacy areas.

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.

###### 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, Mrs. 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 those dealing with stigma related to HIV/AIDS and
homelessness. She served for eight 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 the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) for three years. Subsequently, she successfully
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 four
years as Project Director of a substance abuse and infectious disease
Cross-Training Initiative, funded by SAMHSA\'s Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the
Health Resources and Services Administration. 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.

Anne Cory currently serves as the President and Chief Professional
Officer of the United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra, a United
Way working in collaboration with 70 partner agencies and raising \$3.25
million annually. Ms. Cory provides human services leadership for
northern Nevada and the Lake Tahoe Basin in a variety of ways. She
attended the first Policy Academy on homeless families with children, as
well as the fifth Policy Academy on the chronically homeless. Since its
inception, Ms. Cory has facilitated the Policy Academy Team of Nevada in
her role as Vice Chair. She also represents homeless services providers
in the northern part of the State as the leader of the Reno Area
Alliance for the Homeless.

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Prior to serving at United Way, Ms. Cory worked as the Vice President of
Planned Parenthood of Mar Monte with a focus on Community and Business
Development and was a freelance human services consultant. As a private
consultant, she created a new primary care association; organized and
acquired funding for a "new start" Community Health Center; managed a
pilot project for National Health Service Corps, placing medical
students in underserved communities; and provided grant writing,
strategic planning, and program development consultation for nonprofit
agencies throughout Nevada.

Martha "Marty" Fleetwood, J.D., is Founder and Executive Director of
HomeBase, a legal and technical services provider on the myriad issues
of homelessness. She has participated in developing local, regional, and
national strategies to bring mainstream resources into the homelessness
response, and most recently designed a comprehensive technical
assistance conference on all aspect of mainstreaming for California,
Arizona, and Nevada. She has worked with several San Francisco Bay Area
Communities to develop plans to end chronic homelessness. Ms. Fleetwood
is an advocate for the creation of discharge planning at the local
level, convening several venues for State and regional dialogues on this
issue, and providing legal and technical assistance to various
communities on their discharge strategies and responses, including jail
re-entry.

Ms. Fleetwood has worked towards increasing Federal and State resources
for homelessness prevention and programs; removing health and mental
health care barriers faced by homeless people; guaranteeing homeless
civil rights; providing housing for homeless families; and, bringing new
technology to the fight against homelessness. Since 1986, she has led
HomeBase in numerous community planning engagements, i.e., shaping the
Bay Area Regional Initiative to Reduce Homelessness, which joined 14
jurisdictions; designing a multi-service center to provide housing and
services for homeless people (Alameda County); crafting community-wide
responses in Phoenix, Arizona and Contra Costa County, California to
meeting State and Federal mandates; and evaluating homeless grant
programs for the San Francisco Foundation and homeless assistance
programs for the City of San Francisco.

With a special interest in nurturing faith and grass-roots efforts, Ms.
Fleetwood has convened a number of these agencies to develop a training
module on spiritual values in human service delivery that was delivered
at the World Parliament of Religions in Cape Town, South Africa in
December 1999. She has led an effort to strengthen the Board of the Mary
Ann Wright Foundation, done fund development for Project Outreach and
Casa Vincenzia, chaired the long-range planning and programs committee
of the Board of the St. Anthony's Foundation, and conducted a seminar on
welfare reform and homelessness for the FAITHS Initiative of the San
Francisco Foundation. Ms. Fleetwood holds a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of California at Irvine and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard
Law School.

Kathryn "Ka" Flewellen, M.S., is currently the CEO of Change Strategies,
Inc., an organization development consulting firm. Ms. Flewellen has
provided facilitation, strategic planning, board training, and program
and development planning for nonprofit organizations since l995. After a
decade of service to the Peace Development Fund, a small national public
foundation, as Chair of the Board and Program Committee Chair, Ms.
Flewellen spent the last year assisting the foundation to launch its new
capacity-building initiative for special grantees in two program areas:
environmental justice and criminal justice. Committed to strengthening
citizen input in governance, Ms. Flewellen served as a senior research
assistant at the University of Maryland's Democracy Collaborative
Project. She formerly directed the Preamble Center, a small Washington
think tank that focused on economic issues, from globalization and the
Multi-lateral Agreement on Investment to working with environmental
justice communities seeking redress from discriminatory sitings of toxic
facilities. Ms. Flewellen has a media background and worked as a news
reporter for Howard University's radio station WHUR-FM, the local
Pacifica affiliate, WPFW, and the national Pacifica network. She holds a
Master of Science Degree from American University in organization
development and is currently a doctoral student at the Fielding Graduate
Institute in Santa Barbara, California, specializing in Human and
Organization Development.

Jamie Hart, Ph.D., M.P.H., Practice Area Director at Health Systems
Research, Inc., has vast experience in training, technical assistance,
facilitation, systems integration, curriculum design, evaluation, and
cultural competency. Dr. Hart's work has consistently focused on
integrating systems and improving access to health care for underserved
populations, particularly for certain racial and ethnic populations,
persons facing co-occurring disorders, and persons who are homeless. 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 for a majority of the 45 States and
Territories involved in the project, has served as a State team
facilitator at the meetings, and is currently managing the day-to-day
operations for the contract and is coordinating the provision of
technical assistance to all participating States. In addition to this
role, Dr. Hart also served as the Deputy Project Director of Substance
Abuse and Infectious Disease: Cross-Training for Collaborative Systems
of Prevention, Treatment and Care, a collaborative project funded by the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration\'s Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
and the Health Resources and Services Administration, that provided
resources for training, technical assistance, and systems integration to
infectious disease, substance abuse, mental health, and public health
practitioners. Dr. Hart holds an Master of Public Health in health
behavior and health education, along with a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in
African American history.

Ravinia Hayes-Cozier is a Former Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau
of HIV Program Services for New York City, with more than 20 years of
experience as a program developer, manager, administrator, training
specialist, and educator. Ms. Hayes-Cozier was responsible for
monitoring and evaluating all of New York City's HIV prevention
programs. She has worked extensively in diverse areas of marketing,
health, substance abuse treatment and prevention, community development,
education, and training. She has developed programs and proposals,
provided technical assistance, negotiated contracts, managed projects,
conducted evaluations, provide fiscal management, and supervised staff.
Ms. Hayes-Cozier is also a training specialist with particular expertise
focusing on the design and implementation of major training and
technical assistance efforts that maximize participant communication and
learning. In addition, she has authored and co-authored many technical
reports and professional papers. Ms. Cozier received certification as a
national trainer from the National Institute of Drug Abuse Training
System in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining IQ Solutions, she was deputy
directory of the Knowledge Development and Application (KDA) project for
Northrop Grumman IT, Government Solutions. This project was funded
through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration\'s
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (SAMHSA/CSAT). In this role, she
was responsible for the overall program implementation and
administration, directed technical assistance with CSAT grantees,
supervised KDA staff, developed program funding and training, and
coordinated services with CSAT project officers.

Ms. Cozier was also the Executive Director of the Harlem Directors Group
for two years, responsible for the administration and program
development of all activities, including organization, supervision of
staff, development and guidance of information management systems, human
resources/staff development, and development of the Prevention Planning
Group/Planning Council for New York City and New York State. She also
developed policies and strategies on local, city, State, and national
social welfare policy issues affecting people living with HIV/AIDS and
communities of color. Ms. Cozier also served as assistant commissioner
to the New York City Department of Health where she planned, developed,
and administered public health programs, with over 350 diverse staff in
five boroughs. She increased the budget within two years from \$15
million to \$19 million. She also served in two other positions with the
New York City Department of Health, including Director of Education and
Community Development and, previously, Coordinator of Education and
Community Development. She also has served as a training
specialist/officer and director to a number of State agencies, school
systems, and organizations. Ms. Cozier holds a Bachelor of Science
degree from the Northern Illinois University in Dekalb.

Patrick Moynahan, Domestic Division Director of the QED Group, LLC, has
more than 20 years of experience in the design, implementation, and
assessment of social policy and programs for governmental agencies and
nonprofit organizations, including housing, homelessness, and economic
and community development. Mr. Moynahan directs QED's policy research
and program evaluation work with domestic Federal agencies, including
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 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.

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 in planning, implementing and funding nonprofit
programs for over 20 years. She has coordinated planning services for
mental health care, housing, case management, employment, substance
abuse prevention, and HIV/AIDS services, as well as public policy,
legislative advocacy, peace, and community organizing projects. Ms.
Taylor has worked with collaborative planning teams to develop projects
for housing and support services for special needs and homeless
populations, as well as successful health care programs for families who
are uninsured. Ms. Taylor provides technical planning and facilitation
assistance to a broad variety of nonprofit organizations in Connecticut.

Jim Wuelfing, CPP-R, is owner of the New England Center, a company
dedicated to quality training and technical assistance services. Mr.
Wuelfing has many specialties including: community organizing,
facilitation, prevention, spiritual growth, community awareness,
curriculum development, peer education, stress management, and problem
gambling prevention. He has also co-written and co-trained the highly
praised workshop, "Racism of the Well Intended." He has trained
professionals around the country and in Europe. Mr. Wuelfing has been on
the faculty of the New England School of Alcohol Studies for 11 years
and has served on both the planning committee and the faculty of the New
England School of Prevention Studies. He also serves as an on-line
faculty member for the Addictions Transfer of Technology Center--New
England at Brown University. Mr. Wuelfing received his Bachelor of Arts
from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He spent
13 years serving as Assistant and Associate Dean at his alma mater. He
was also the Director of Prevention Services and Training Manager for
ETP, Inc. for six years.