Program

Georgia Supportive Housing Association Conference

 Tuesday, November 15, 2011  7:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Georgia Bar Association Conference Center
 104 Marietta St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30303
The Old Federal Reserve Building

PURPOSE

1. Educate the public and specialty organizations

2. Develop and support a supportive housing plan for the state based on need

3. Explore new strategies and programs

4. Discuss future changes in state policy and programs

5. Facilitate the collaboration between affordable housing organizations and social service organizations

TARGETED PARTICIPANTS

GSHA members; Community Service Boards; Medicaid managed care Organizations; Consumers; State and local government officials; Housing Authorities; Legislators;  Developers; Service organizations; Researchers;  Shelter Plus Care providers; Media.

Registration and Continental Breakfast- 7:30 to 8:30 AM

Plenary Session 8:30-10:00

Introduction — Paul Bolster, Director, GSHA

            Video Introduction – Cobb/Douglas CSB
                                    Consumer stories from video participants

▪ The Need and the Plan to Create/Finance Supportive Housing

            ▪ Criminal Justice Reform and Housing

Ken Shigley, President, Georgia Bar Association.

            ▪ Settlement Status Report on the Housing Goals

Frank Shelp, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner of Georgia Department of Behavioral Health &  Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD)

Don Watt, Director of Special Needs Housing, Georgia Department of Community Affairs

Morning Break 10:00 to 10:15

 Breakout Sessions  10:15 to 11:15

▪ Mental Health Housing

Facilitator: Shannon Harvey, CEO River Edge Community Service Board

Doug Scott, director of supportive housing DBHDD

Yvonne DePina, Director of Residential Services, CEO Cobb/Douglas Community Service Board

Nora Hayes, NAMI, Opening Doors to Recovery Project

▪ Addiction Recovery Housing

Facilitator: Neil Kaltenacker, Georgia Addiction Recovery Association

                        Carol Collard, CEO, Caring Works Inc. and Hope House

            Beth Holmes, President, Georgia Association or Recovery Residences (invited)

            Judge Cynthia Becker, Dekalb County Superior Court, Division 6

 ▪ HIV Housing

Facilitator: Tereas Copnnell, Office of Grants Management, HOPWA Grants Management, City of Atlanta

 Dolf Goldenberg, Executive Director, Living Room

 Kathie Hiers, AID Alabama

Breakout Sessions  11:30 to 12:30

▪ Housing and Health Care Reform

Facilitator: Todd Citron, CEO Cobb/Douglas Community Service Board

Peggy Bailey, Senior Policy Advisor, Corporation for Supportive Housing

                        Mohini Venkatesh, Senior Director of Public Policy,
                                     National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare

                        Mark Trail, former Director of Medicaid and consultant with

            Health Management Associates

            ▪ Housing and Criminal Justice Reform

            Facilitator: Tom Boller, Capitol Partners

                        Rep. Jay Neal, Chair of House Committee on State Institutions

                        Ryan Moser, Managing Director, Corporation for Supportive Housing  

                        Kemuel A. "Kem" Kembrough, Sheriff, Clayton County,
                                    Representing the Georgia Sheriff’s Association

             ▪ Rural Supportive Housing

            Facilitator: Ron Pounds, Department of Community Affairs

                        Liz Drapa, National Director of Consulting and Training, Corporation for Supportive Housing

                        Phillis Thomas, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs

                        Kathie Heirs, AID Alabama 

                        Arlene Mutchler, Executive Director, Care Inc., Jessup, GA

Plenary Luncheon with Keynote Speaker 12.30-1:30

            Ms. Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, DC.

The Alliance was responsible for the devising the national plan to end homelessness during the George W. Bush Administration and will review the progress of state and national efforts to end chronic homelessness through the expansion of supportive housing. 

Plenary Session: Developing Supportive Housing in Georgia 1:45-3:00

            How to partner Services, Capital, and Subsidy                       

            Facilitator: Dr. Paul Bolster, Executive Director GSHA

▪ Patrick Brown, Director of Special Needs Housing, Department of Community Affairs

▪ Kimberly Black King, Director Mid-Atlantic Office of Corporation for Supportive ▪ Housing

▪ Charles Williams, CEO, Charles Williams Real Estate Investment Company, Rome Georgia

▪ Jason Bearden, CEO, Three Rivers Community Service Board, Rome Georgia

▪ Eve Byrd, Executive Director of the Fuqua Center on Late Stage Depression 

Coffee and cookies   3:00-3:05

Afternoon Plenary—Town Hall Meeting 3:05-4:00

Where do we go from here? The Policy Agenda

What have we learned today and where are we going as a state and as advocates? How do we get to a supportive housing plan?

The GSHA Legislative Agenda   Comments and suggestions.

Program Questions: Paul Bolster  --- bolsterp@bellsouth.net

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