PURPOSE

1. Educate the public and specialty organizations

2. Promote a plan for the state based on need

3. Explore new strategies and programs

4. Develop 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 and Providers; Consumers; State and Local Government Officials; Housing Authorities; Legislators;  Tax Credit Developers; Service Organizations; Researchers;  Shelter Plus Care Providers; Media.

 CONFERENCE SUPPORT FROM:

United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta; The Georgia Association of Community Service Boards; The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (invited); The Corporation for Supportive Housing; Cobb/Douglas Community Service Board; Caring Works.

                  

CONFERENCE EDUCATiON PROGRAM

Monday, November 12, 2012 

 Registration and Continental Breakfast—8:30 to 9:30

 I.                   Supportive Housing 101---9:30 am to 12:00 am

 A program presented by the Corporation for Supportive Housing to introduce the concepts and principles of Supportive Housing. Seeks to bridge the knowledge gap between housing and service providers.

 Lunch (provided)---12:00 to 1:00

 II.                 Management of Supportive Housing---1:00 to 4:00

 A Program presented by Enterprise Inc. to explore the unique issues that arise for the managers of supportive housing that is either scattered site or single site.

 

          Separate Seminar Registration: $45 for non-members

                                                                   $35 for members

 CONFERENCE POLICY PROGRAM

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

 Registration and Continental Breakfast—7:30 to 8:30

 Plenary Session 8:30-10:00

 Introduction — Paul Bolster, Executive Director, GSHA

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

 ▪ Consumers tell their story

▪ Dr. James DeGroot, Director of Mental Health,
Georgia Department of Corrections

 “The State Prisons and the Need for Housing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities”

▪ Commissioner Frank Berry,
Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

 “The DOJ Settlement Status Report on the Supportive Housing Goals”

§         Legislator of the Year Comments—Representative Jay Neal

 Morning Break 10:00 to 10:10

 Plenary Session Two 10:10 to 11:45

 ▪ Housing and Health Care Reform

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

§         Medicaid Restructuring and Profit Sharing—Cindy McLaughlin, CEO Avita Community Partners (CSB for 13 counties in Northeast GA)

§         Health Homes—Mohini Venkatesh, MPH, Senior Director, Public Policy, National Council for Community Behavioral Health, Washington DC

§         Medicaid Expansion—Cindy Zeldin, Executive Director of Healthy Future Georgia and Leader of the Cover Georgia Coalition 

▪ Housing and Criminal Justice Reform

Facilitator: Paul Bolster

§         Cost Benefit of Reentry Programs.  Where are the savings and where are the costs and how does a housing investment create the savings? What are other states doing?—Ryan Moser, Eastern Region Vice President, Corporation for Supportive Housing

§         Georgia’s Need for Alternatives to Jail and Prisons for Persons with Disabilities—Bill Kisel, Chair of NAMI Georgia

 Break out Sessions  11:45 to 12:45

 §         Models of Supportive Housing—A Dialogue on Future Programs and Policies

Facilitator: Eve Byrd, Executive Director, Fuqua Center at Emory University

o       Judy Fitzgerald—Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

o       William McDonald, MD,  Director, Fuqua Center For Late-Life Depression at Wesley Woods

o       Jean Toole—Executive Director, Community Friendship

o       Joshua Norris—Director, Georgia Advocacy Office

o       Mark Du Mas, President, Paces Foundation

o       Doug Scott—Housing Specialist, Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

 §         Homeless Veterans and Housing Programs

Facilitator: Leonard Adams, President, Quest 35.

Speakers:

            Jennifer Turner-Reid, Deputy Network Homeless Coordinator

            Frantz Fortune, Executive Director, Veterans Empowerment

Susan Lampley, Atlanta Mayor Kaseem Reed’s Street Homelessness Initiative

Clamentine  V.  Melvin, Operations Division Director, HUD, Atlanta Field Office.

o       Programs and policies that work

o       Improving the VASH Voucher Program

o       Project basing VASH Vouchers.

§         Housing and Accountability Courts

Facilitator: Rusty Sewell, Partner, Capitol Partners Inc.

o       Andy Cummings, Administrator, DeKalb County Drug Court

o   Jeff S Bagley, Chief Judge of the Bell-Forsyth Circuit, Cumming, Georgia

o   John Zoller, Consultant on Drug Court Policies and Practice

Plenary Luncheon with Keynote Speaker 12.45-1:30

Linda Kaufman, National Field Organizer, Community Solutions, 100,000Homes Campaign

Plenary Session: Developing Supportive Housing in Georgia 1:30-3:00

What are the barriers? What policies and programs does Georgia need? What do housing providers need from service providers?

            Facilitator: Dr. Paul Bolster, Executive Director, GSHA

Speaker: Katrina Van Valkenburg, Vice President for Development, Corporation for Supportive Housing.

 “What policies and programs does a state need to expand the supply of supportive housing to meet its need?”

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

            Comments:

▪ A Tax Credit Developer. Noel Khalil, President and CEO of Columbia Residential

▪ A Community Service Board. Jason Bearden, Executive Director, Highland Rivers CSB

▪ A Housing Authority Developer. Bruce Gerwig, Macon Housing Authority/President, In-Fill Housing, Inc.

Plenary—Town Hall Meeting 3:00-4:00

            Where do we go from here?

The GSHA 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

 

Ending Reception and Mixer - Coffee and Cookies   4:00-4:15

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CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Registration is $75 with a $15 discount for Georgia Supportive Housing Association organizational and individual members. Membership $100.

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