*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*

**Preventing Chronic Homelessness Through Effective Transitions and
Discharge Planning**

*September 28--29, 2006*

*Radisson Plaza Warwick Hotel*

*Philadelphia, PA*

**Presenter, Resource Person, and Facilitator Biographies**

***Ed Bird*** is the Coordinator for the Chicago Housing for Health
Partnership (CHHP) for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. The AIDS
Foundation of Chicago is an organization that (1) advocates for sound
AIDS policy and increased public support for AIDS services and (2)
develops and implements strategies for coordinating AIDS care and
prevention services throughout the Chicago metropolitan area. The CHHP
project seeks to provide housing and intensive case management supports
to persons who are homeless and who live with a chronic medical illness,
including HIV/AIDS. CHHP is one of the first programs to implement the
Housing First philosophy in the city of Chicago.

Mr. Bird also serves on the Interim Housing Providers Constituency Group
of the Chicago Continuum of Care and sits on the Leadership Council of
the Midwest Harm Reduction Institute. Prior to coming to the CHHP
Project in 2002, he worked for 11 years as a psychiatric social worker,
working mostly with the seriously and chronically mentally ill in
various settings, including inpatient, outpatient, residential, and
nursing homes. Mr. Bird received his Master\'s of Social Work from the
State University of New York in Albany.

***Blake Chard,*** the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS)
Deputy Secretary for Public Affairs, was appointed by Secretary Robin
Arnold-Williams on June 1, 2005 to serve as one of two Deputy
Secretaries for the Washington State DSHS. Mr. Chard is responsible for
increasing the department's emphasis on improving relations with DSHS
community and government partners. He is also responsible for providing
leadership to several programs within DSHS, including Homeless/Housing
and Services. He currently serves on the Interagency Council on
Homelessness as well as Sound Families, a public-private partnership
working to create new service-enriched housing for homeless families.

Prior to joining DSHS, Mr. Chard served as Director for the Division of
Juvenile Justice Services in the State of Utah. In that role, Mr. Chard
was responsible for the effective delivery of services for all youth
offenders committed to the division by Juvenile Courts for supervision
and treatment in the community or for secure confinement. Mr. Chard
began as Director in August 2000.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Chard served four terms with the Utah
State House of Representatives, having been initially elected in 1992.
During that time, Mr. Chard actively participated on a variety of
committees, boards and commissions, including the Utah Correctional
Industries Advisory Board; the Utah Information Technology Commission;
the Juvenile Justice Task Force; and the Executive Offices, Criminal
Justice and Legislature Joint Appropriations Committee.

Mr. Chard received his master of public administration degree from
Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, and his bachelor of science
degree from Weber State College in Ogden, UT.

Mr. Chard previously served 6 years as a deputy sheriff for Davis
County, UT; 12 years as an engineering specialist for TRW, a defense
contractor at Hill Air Force Base; and, prior to joining the Utah
Department of Human Services, was Vice President of SmartUtah, a
nonprofit organization that promotes the use of technology in rural
Utah.

***Martha Fleetwood*** is the Founder and Executive Director of
HomeBase, a nonprofit legal and technical services provider focused on
breaking the code of homelessness. With a lifelong social justice
commitment, Ms. Fleetwood has held significant positions of
responsibility with the U.S. Department of Justice and the legal arm of
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Ms.
Fleetwood 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 Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) and the Department of Health and Human Services. 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 U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (DHHS), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), the VA, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), and
partner Federal agencies. Ms. Fleetwood has served as Co-Lead
Facilitator for the National African American Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Summit (DHHS Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration \[SAMHSA\]). Ms. Fleetwood is a Facilitator for the
National Policy Academies on Co-occurring Mental and Substance Abuse
Disorders and an expert presenter for SAMHSA on both 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, the U.S.
Department of Education, and DOL on homelessness issues. Additionally,
she has assisted HUD by offering advice on Section 3 of the Housing Act,
annual policy briefings, serving at expert meetings, and providing
McKinney-Vento homeless programs technical assistance.

Ms. Fleetwood spends most of the work year in local communities
responding to the myriad problems that homelessness presents for cities,
counties, nonprofit agencies, and the private sector.

***Anne Fletcher*** is a Social Science Analyst within the DHHS Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Office of
Human Services Policy.

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. Ms. Fletcher serves as the lead analyst within ASPE
regarding policy and research issues related to homelessness.

***Patricia Griffin*** is a Senior Consultant for the National GAINS
Center for Persons with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System,
the Technical Assistance and Policy Analysis Center for Jail Diversion,
the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health, and the Montgomery
County Pennsylvania Department of Mental Health. Dr. Griffin's areas of
expertise include policy and system issues for offenders with
co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorders, diversion of
persons with severe mental illness from the criminal justice system,
community forensic treatment services, and linkages between institutions
and the community. Her previous positions include the Director of
Forensic Services for the Virginia Department of Mental Health,
Substance Abuse, and Mental Retardation Services, the State Coordinator
for Community Forensic Services for Florida\'s Department of Health and
Rehabilitative Services, and the Director of the Community Liaison Unit
for the Forensic Service of Florida State Hospital. In addition to
numerous consultations and professional presentations, Dr. Griffin has
authored publications regarding community forensic services, the
interaction between treatment and criminal justice systems, diversion,
and reentry. She is a co-author with Mark Munetz of the recent
publication "Use of the Sequential Intercept Model as an Approach to
Decriminalization of People with Serious Mental Illness."

***Jamie Hart*** is the Director of the Intercultural Health Practice
Area at Health Systems Research, Inc. (HSR) and 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. Dr. Hart 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, Dr. Hart 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 directs a project for the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality, using the same model to address decreasing
disparities in pediatric asthma in six States. She also directs two
newly awarded the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
contracts focusing on Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency
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 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 the Center for Substance Abuse and Treatment,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 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. Dr. Hart 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.

***Cathleen Hausheer*** is the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation's
(KHRC) Reentry Housing Specialist. In cooperation with the Kansas
Department of Correction (KDOC), this position was created in November
2005. The Reentry Housing Specialist works as a liaison between KDOC and
housing providers/developers to find safe affordable housing options for
ex-offenders. This unique position also is designed to provide housing
training to KDOC's staff and offenders.

In less than a year, Ms. Hausheer has created and implemented the
*Understanding Your Rental Responsibilities in Kansas* statewide
training program. Ms. Hausheer also is beginning to work with developers
to find innovative means to house ex-offenders. In the fall of 2006,
KHRC and KDOC will begin delivering *Housing for a Second Chance*
training across the State. This training is designed to bring law
enforcement, corrections, and housing providers together to discuss safe
reintegration.

Before taking on her current role, Ms. Hausheer worked for KHRC's Asset
Management Division as a Compliance Specialist. Ms. Hausheer also has
housing experience from her time as Assistant Property Manager at Villa
West Apartments in Topeka. Ms. Hausheer holds a bachelor of science in
business administration from Baker University in Baldwin City, KS.

***Mary Ellen Hombs*** is Deputy Director of the U.S. Interagency
Council on Homelessness. The Council has engaged every level of
government and elements of the private sector to constellate a national
partnership to end homelessness and to forward the Administration's
commitment to end chronic homelessness. The Interagency Council is
comprised of 20 Cabinet Secretaries and Federal agency directors who
meet regularly at the White House to ensure that Federal resources are
more available and accessible to homeless people. For the past 5 years,
the Federal budget has included consecutive record years of funding
targeted to homelessness, including the President's proposed a sixth
year targeted homelessness record budget request of \$4.15 billion for
Fiscal Year 2007.

Focused on performance and accountability, the Council has initiated
strategies that move beyond funding to investing and beyond managing the
crisis to ending the disgrace. The Council has led the creation of a
national partnership that now includes 20 Federal agencies, 53 States
and Territories, and 222 local communities. Through the Council's
leadership, unprecedented interagency collaborations have taken place.

Prior to joining the Council in 2003, Ms. Hombs was Executive Director
of the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance, a statewide coalition
of 85 agencies that operate more than 250 housing and emergency services
programs for homeless people. At MHSA, she led initiatives on both
prevention and intervention, served as the sole nongovernmental member
of the State's Policy Academy team, and participated in Governor
Romney's Executive Commission for Homeless Services Coordination, the
predecessor to the State's interagency council. Ms. Hombs was
responsible for several multiyear technical assistance initiatives
focused on discharge planning and housing, working closely with State
agencies and private-sector partners responsible for mental health and
substance abuse treatment, Medicaid, housing, and homeless programs. She
has more than 25 years of public policy, direct service, and technical
assistance experience in homeless advocacy and programs at the local,
State, and national levels. Ms. Hombs is the author of numerous books
and articles on homelessness. Ms. Hombs holds a bachelor's degree in
economics, political science, and history from George Washington
University and a master's degree in city planning from Howard
University, both in Washington, DC.

***Crystal Kindall*** is currently the Transitional Drug Abuse Treatment
Coordinator at the Bureau of Prisons, located at the Northeast Regional
Office in Philadelphia. Ms. Kindall began her career with the Bureau of
Prisons in 1990. She has held various positions with the agency,
including Case Manager Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Worth;
Case Manager, San Antonio Community Corrections, San Antonio; Drug Abuse
Treatment Specialist, Federal Correctional Institution, Three Rivers,
TX; Unit Manager, Federal Detention Center, Miami, FL; Correctional
Programs Specialist, Northeast Regional Office, Philadelphia; and
Affirmative Action Administrator, Northeast Regional Office,
Philadelphia. Ms. Kindall held the positions of Resident Supervisor at a
halfway house, social worker, and Unwed Mothers' Placement Worker and
Probation Officer prior to joining the Bureau of Prisons.

Ms. Kindall has a bachelor of arts in social work from the University of
Akron in Akron, OH, and a master of science in human resources
administration from Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant.

***Cordella D. Malloy*** began her career with the Federal Bureau of
Prisons in 2000 as a staff psychologist at the Federal Correctional
Institute in Fort Dix. Dr. Malloy held the position of Residential Drug
Abuse Program Coordinator prior to her current position of Drug Abuse
Treatment Oversight Specialist in the Northeast Regional Office, located
in Philadelphia. Prior to joining the Bureau of Prisons, Dr. Malloy held
the positions of Adult Probation Officer, Revenue Officer, and Criminal
Investigator with the Internal Revenue Service. She also has worked as a
sex offender counselor for dually diagnosed clients and a drug and
alcohol counselor and has therapeutic experience with many different
populations.

Dr. Malloy has a bachelor of arts in psychology from West Chester
University in West Chester, PA, a master of arts in criminology from the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, PA, and a doctorate of
philosophy in clinical psychology from Hahnemann University in
Philadelphia.

***James McGuire*** currently serves as Program Manager for the VA
Homelessness Prevention and Incarcerated Veterans Program and as the VA
Northeast Program Evaluation Center's Project Director of the Community
Homelessness Assessment, Local Evaluation and Networking Groups
(CHALENG) Evaluation, CHALENG being the VA's process for networking with
community agencies to provide services for homeless veterans.

Current research includes evaluation of VA-funded residential care
outcomes for homeless veterans, VA community agency partnerships,
outreach and treatment for incarcerated veterans reentering the
community, treatment of medical problems of the homeless in primary
care, and homelessness and vocational rehabilitation.

***Colleen Patrick-Riley*** is the Director of Mental Health Release
Programs for the Alaska State Department of Corrections. Ms.
Patrick-Riley has 35 years of social service experience. She has worked
for the Alaska Court System and in mental health with children and
adults in New Zealand and Alaska as a clinician and as Director of a
nonprofit community. For the past 18 years, Ms. Patrick-Riley has helped
to develop a continuum of services in the Alaska Department of
Corrections (DOC) and in Alaskan communities for seriously mentally ill
adults, most of whom experience co-occurring disorders. Currently,
Alaska's release programs include a felony release program operating
since 1994 and misdemeanor mental health courts since 1998. Ms.
Patrick-Riley has participated in local and statewide Homeless
Coalitions and represents DOC as a member of the Alaska Mental Health
Board and the Alaska Homelessness Ends in Alaska Advisory Team (the
Homelessness Ends in Alaska Advisory Team from the Policy Academy), and
the Prisoner Reentry Coalition. As part of a group, Ms. Patrick-Riley
has promoted awareness of problems and options for housing and treatment
alternatives. She worked with SSA to establish a successful prerelease
application process for Social Security benefits and now is working to
promote a prerelease application process for public assistance and
Medicaid. Ms. Patrick-Riley is working with DOC and interagency staff to
design an APIC best-practice model for Alaska that can link individuals
to treatment, medication, housing, benefits, and jobs if able to work.
She is a strong proponent of partnerships and collaborating with
multiple agencies and departments to address the needs of this
challenging population.

***Lloyd Pendleton*** presently is working for the State of Utah in the
Division of Housing and Community Development, which is part of the
Department of Community and Culture. Mr. Pendleton was a loaned
executive from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to
the State of Utah in 2003 and 2004 to take the lead in writing the
State's 10-year plan for ending chronic homelessness. Upon retiring from
Church employment in early 2006, Mr. Pendleton went to work for the
State of Utah to continue the implementation of the organization and
systems to end chronic homelessness.

Mr. Pendleton graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, with
a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's in business
administration. Following graduation, Mr. Pendleton worked 14 years for
the Ford Motor Company in the Detroit area in finance. Following his
work at Ford Motor Company, Mr. Pendleton worked for the LDS Church in
the Welfare Department for 25 years. As part of this, Mr. Pendleton was
involved in helping to develop and implement a worldwide humanitarian
program for the LDS Church.

***Charles Sabatier, Jr.,*** is a Senior Policy Advisor with the DOL
Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). Mr. Sabatier has an
extensive background in disability issues and civil rights. Since he
became paralyzed by small arms fire in Vietnam in 1968, he has worked as
the National Advocacy Director for the Paralyzed Veterans of America and
as a Disability Issues Advisor at the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

After graduating from law school in 1992, Charlie worked as a disability
civil rights attorney, litigating more than a hundred cases based on
Federal civil rights laws, including Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, the Air Carrier Access Act, and the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990. Most of his employment cases involved
negotiations leading to amicable resolutions on how to make reasonable
accommodations for clients alleging employment discrimination based on
their disability status.

Presently, Mr. Sabatier is a member of ODEP Employment Supports Team,
where he serves as a liaison with the DOL Veterans' Employment &
Training Services Office, working on the Recovery and Employment
Assistance Lifelines program. This program is an innovative,
collaborative approach designed to ensure that injured and wounded
service members get the support they need to be successful and
competitive in employment when they return home after serving their
country in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

Mr. Sabatier also serves as ODEP's lead policy person on a demonstration
grant provided to five communities. The grant provides both financial
and technical assistance support from ODEP and HUD in a unique
partnership to end chronic homelessness in the United States by 2012. It
provides an opportunity for both HUD and DOL to combine their respective
resources and expertise in a combined approach to provide employment and
housing services to people who are chronically homeless so that they can
live independently as self-sufficient members of their community.

***Deborah Stone*** has worked in mental health and substance abuse
prevention since 1998, holding a variety of positions, including
leadership in (1) the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for
Excellence; (2) the Anchorage, AK, initiative directed to the
Municipality's homeless-alcoholic population treatment for substance
abuse and mental health services; (3) the Alaskan Five-Year Integrative
Coordinated Approach to FASD; (4) the development of science-based model
programs that are culturally responsive to American Indians and Alaskan
Natives; (5) a violence prevention initiative to decrease cross border
underage drinking at the U.S.-Mexico Border; and (6) the development of
online courses in response to workforce development (see
[www.samhsa.gov/preventionpathways](http://www.samhsa.gov/preventionpathways)).
Ms. Stone has worked in the field of substance abuse for 23 years. Dr.
Stone has a master of fine arts degree in studio art and a doctorate of
philosophy in human development with an area of concentration in
human/computer interface.

***Naomi Tein*** is a Senior Policy Associate Intercultural Health
Practice Area at HSR. In this role, Ms. Tein currently is managing a
Federal interagency homeless technical assistance project. Fluent in
Spanish and English, Ms. Tein has more than a decade of experience, both
domestic and international, working with Latinos and other immigrant
populations. With a specialty in maternal and child health, Ms. Tein has
expertise in program and community development and more than 10 years of
experience conducting program and community needs assessments and in
community-based health outreach and education. Prior to joining HSR, Ms.
Tein was the Director of Program Consulting and Information Services
with Farmworker Health Services, Inc. Ms. Tein holds a master's degree
in public health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

***Francine Williams*** is a Senior Project Associate at Policy Research
Associates, Inc. (PRA) in Delmar, NY. In this capacity, Ms. Williams
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 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, she worked in employment and residential programs for people
with mental illnesses, many of whom had been homeless.