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2015 Annual Conference Georgia Supportive Housing Association November 17 and 18, 2015 Georgia Bar Association Conference Center 104 Marietta Street NW, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30303 PURPOSE 1. Educate the public and specialty organizations 2. Explore new policies strategies and programs 3. Develop future changes in state policy and programs 4. Facilitate the collaboration between affordable housing organizations and social service organizations 5. Promote policies and programs that will expand the state’s supportive housing capacity. TARGETED PARTICIPANTS GSHA members; Community Service Boards; Medicaid Managed Care organizations and providers; consumers; state and local government officials; Housing Authorities; legislators; tax credit developers; service organizations; researchers; Shelter Plus Care providers; re-entry and probation staff; media. CONFERENCE SUPPORT FROM: The Georgia Association of Community Service Boards; The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities; The Corporation for Supportive Housing; Caring Works; National Church Residence; WellCare
CONFERENCE EDUCATION PROGRAM Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Registration and Continental Breakfast—8:00 to 9:00
9:00 to 9:45 – Session One
Housing Options for Re-entry · The Georgia Partnership for Housing—DCA and Board of Pardons & Parole
Facilitator: Paul Bolster Speaker: Erin Anderson, Manager, Georgia Department of Community Supervision. : 9:45 to 10:30 – Session Two
Reentry Coalitions and Housing – State and local sponsors. How are they funded and how do they work. · Community Need · Treatment needed—addiction and mental illness · Funding · Result data Speakers: · Elizabeth Danley, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta · Larry Dale, State Coordinator for Reentry Coalitions, Office of Transition Support and Reentry, Georgia Department of Community Supervision.
Break 10:30 to 10:45
10:45 to 11:45 – Session Three
Managing Supportive Housing—Advice for Property Managers and Behavioral Health Service Providers.
Facilitator: Jon Toppen, Managing Principal, Tapestry Development. Speakers: · Mathew Hurd, Director, Open Doors Program of the Atlanta Real Estate Collaborative. · Brent Sobel, Founder and Executive Director, Legacy Community Housing Corporation. · Darlene Schultz, President, Project Inter Connections Inc.
Lunch 11:45 to 12:15
12:15 to 1:15 – Session Four
Coordinated Assessment: How the HUD requirements are changing Access to Services for Homeless persons. What are the implications for Supportive Housing?
Facilitator: Scott Walker, Director of Residential Services, Executive Director of Caring Works. Speakers · Christy Hahn, Planning Manager, Office of Homeless and Special Needs Housing, Department of Community Affairs, Balance of State Continuum · Ashley Williams, Housing Solution Coordinator, Partners For Home/Atlanta Homeless Continuum-of-Care · Alma Cooper, HUD Regional Office, Georgia Homeless programs
1:15 to 2:15 – Session Five
Fair Housing Responsibilities for Supportive Housing Managers · What is “Reasonable Accommodation?” · How does it apply to criminal background standards? · DCA’s Fair Housing Initiative. Facilitator: Talley Wells, Director, Disability Integration Project, Atlanta Legal Aid Speakers · Joyce Catrell, Director of Enforcement, Metro Fair Housing · Antonette Sewell, Law Department, Georgia Dept. of Community Affairs
Break 2:15 to 2:30
2:30 to 3:30 – Session Six The New DBHDD System Restructuring and Supportive Housing: Mental Health Service Provider Coalitions may be the answer. How do we meet the needs of a single site housing project or a Tax Credit project in an individual service environment?
Facilitator: Paul Bolster
Speakers: · Terri Timberlake, Director, Office of Adult Mental Health, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities · Chad Jones, Director of Community Services, View Point Health · Linda Wynn, LCSW, CEO and Co-Founder, Atlanta Quality Counseling Services.
3:30 to 4:30 – Session Seven
Forensic Housing: A review of the DBHDD policies, programs, and financing.
Facilitator: Tally Wells, Director, Disability Integration Project, Atlanta Legal Aid.
Speaker: Karen Bailey, Director of Forensics, DBHDD
Separate Education Day Registration: $75 for non-members
$55 for members
CONFERENCE POLICY PROGRAM Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Registration and Continental Breakfast - 7:30 to 8:30 AM
Introduction—Paul Bolster, Executive Director, GSHA
A Consumer Story Respect Institute, Alfred Books, Program Coordinator
Plenary Session 8:30-9:30 Settlement Housing Results Facilitator: Paul Bolster, Executive Director, GSHA.
· Supportive Housing Results at the end of the first five years · Goals for 2016 The Need, Outcomes, and Plans to Expand the State’s Supportive Housing Capacity—Going Beyond the Settlement
Speakers: · Terri Timberlake, Director of Adult Mental Health, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities. · Talley Wells, Director, Disability Integration Project, Atlanta Legal Aid.
Plenary Session 9:30-10:00 Use of Low income Housing Tax Credits For Supportive Housing: A review of leading states.
Facilitator: Paul Bolster Presenter: Jon Toppen, Managing Partner, Tapestry Development
Morning Break 10:00 to 10:15
Plenary Session 10:15 – 11:00
Housing Opportunities and Plans for the new Department of Community Supervision. Facilitator: Paul Bolster Speaker: Michael Nail, Commissioner for the newly formed Georgia Department of community Supervision.
Break out Sessions 11:00 to 12:15
A. Housing for Accountability Court—What could we do to expand housing opportunities for persons who seek the services of the court?
· The Need · Use of the Georgia Partnership for Housing Program · Use of the Georgia Voucher Program · Community Initiatives
Facilitator: Chief Judge Brenda Weaver, Appalachian Judicial Circuit Speaker: · Doug Scott, Director of Supportive Housing, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities · Judge Stephen Goss, Dougherty County Superior Court, Accountability Courts. · Kay Brooks, Executive Director, Aspire Behavioral Health of Albany (previously Albany Community Service Board)
B. Reentry Housing Vouchers: Supportive Housing for Returning Citizens with Disabilities · The need. · The models of housing that work. · A Program Proposal
Facilitator: Paul Bolster, Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform.
Speakers: · Buster Evans, Superintendent for Education and Programs, Georgia Department of Corrections. · Mark Morris, Director of Reentry, Georgia Department of Corrections. · Terri Power, Director of Returning Home Ohio, a Corporation of Supportive Housing program in partnership with the State of Ohio. · Doug Scott, Director of Supportive Housing, Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities
C. Supportive Housing for Youth with Disabilities Aging Out of Juvenile Programs and Institutions. The need. The forms of housing work for individuals Program Opportunities to expand the availability
Speakers: · Rachael Watson, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Reentry Task Force · Catrecia Stokes-Bryan, Office of Provider Management, Georgia Department of Human Services. · A youthful reentry consumer
Plenary Luncheon with Keynote Speaker 12:15-1:00
Nan Roman Federal Policy and Budgets: What to advocate for and what to expect from federal partners
Afternoon Break Outs 1:00 – 2:15
A. The Georgia Development Process for Group Homes: A need for reform!
· Is there an unmet need? · Available financing that is hard to use in Georgia: Why? · The licensure, Medicaid and service approval process. · Opportunities to make the process simpler.
Facilitator: Shannon Harvey, CEO River Edge Behavioral Health.
Speakers: · Alexis Budge, Director of Business Development, CapGrow Partners, Chicago, Illinois. · Cindy Simpson, Director of Public Policy, CHRIS KIDS. · Carol Winstead, Group Home Regulatory Compliance, Department of Human Services.
B. Community Based Transitional Housing. A Review of the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment program of Department of Corrections and Exploration of Community Based Transitional Reentry programs.
Facilitator: Carol Collard, President, Caring Works Inc.
Speakers: · Antonio, Reduction Services, Georgia Department of Corrections, · Sherri Bloodworth (invited), Department of Community Supervision. · George Braucht, Department of Community Supervision, THOR list developer.
C. Housing and Integrated Health Care
· What has been done in Georgia? · What are others doing? · What is the status and direction of federal health policy · Predictions for the future
Facilitator: O. J Booker, CEO, Advantage Behavioral Health.
Speakers: · Richard CHO, Deputy Director, US Interagency Council on Homelessness. · Jonas Thom, Vice President for Behavioral Health, Care Source, State contracted CMO · Remedios (Reme) Rodriguez, Director of Behavioral Health Services, Wellcare of Georgia, State contracted CMO
Plenary Session 2:30 to 3:30 Medicaid: How it can help expand capacity? · Opportunities and Challenges under the new CMS Community Based Services Rule · Funding Options that will support the expansion of Supportive Housing · Supportive Housing Opportunities for Georgia Medicaid
Facilitator: Paul Bolster
Speaker: Richard Cho, Deputy Director, US Interagency Council on Homelessness.
Wendy White Tiegreen, Office of Medicaid Coordination and Health Systems, Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and developmental Disabilities
3:30-4:00 Speaker Judge Michael Boggs, Georgia Court of Appeals and co-chair of the Criminal Justice Reform Council. “The importance of housing to the Criminal Justice Reform Process—Thanks for your work on the issues of housing”
4:00:-4:30 -- Town Hall Meeting
Where do we go from here? The Georgia Supportive Housing Policy Agenda What have we learned today and where are we going as a state and as advocates? How do we increase the state’s capacity to provide supportive housing? The GSHA Legislative Agenda—Comments and suggestions
Ending Reception – Ideas over Coffee and Cookies 4:30-5:00
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION Policy Day Registration is $100 with a $25 discount for Georgia Supportive Housing Association organizational and individual members. Education Day Registration is $75 with a $20 discount for members (Association Membership $150.)
For Information Contact: Paul Bolster at ---bolsterp@bellsouth.net Information on the WEB at www.supportivehousingassociation.com.
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