Meet the CSH Social Innovation Advisory Board

Anne Fletcher, Social Science Analyst at U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
In this position, Anne Fletcher helps to develop the Department’s research agenda relating primarily to issues around homelessness and housing for persons with disabilities. She plans and manages contracted research projects in those policy areas.

Jennifer Ho, Deputy Director, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness In her first six months at USICH, Jennifer Ho shepherded the development of the Opening Doors, the nation’s first‐ever comprehensive federal plan to prevent and end homelessness. Jennifer is the USICH liaison to 13 federal agencies, including the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Agriculture, and the Social Security Administration, and she is the point person on issues related to family and youth, as well as chronic homelessness.


Gavin Kennedy, Director of the Division of Long-Term Care Policy, Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) 
In addition, as division director, Gavin helps lead ASPE’s work in public financing of long term services and supports; Medicare/ Medicaid nursing facility payment and quality improvement policy; the Medicare-Medicaid “dually-eligible,” and, generally, policies affecting the delivery of health care and supportive services for people with functional impairments and long-term care needs.

Kathy Moses, MPH, Senior Program Officer, Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) In this role, Kathy Moses provides technical assistance and strategic consultation to Medicaid state agencies as they develop, implement, measure and evaluate health care initiatives aimed at improving quality of care for people with chronic illnesses, disabilities and the elderly. Her particular areas of expertise are in care management and quality improvement.

 

Mike Nardone, Principal, Health Management Associates Mike comes to HMA with more than 30 years experience in health and human services, having held positions at the state, local, and national levels. Most recently, he served as acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW), a $21-billion, 17,000-employee department with responsibility for the state’s major health and human services programs, including Medical Assistance.

 

Bill Pitkin, Director, Domestic Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Bill Pitkin oversees the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s domestic priority areas. He led the development of the Foundation’s strategy for addressing chronic homelessness in Los Angeles and continues to have direct oversight over that strategic initiative.

 

 

Mohini Venkatesh, Senior Director of Public Policy, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare Ms. Venkatesh serves as the staff policy liaison to the National for Community Behavioral Healthcare network of associations throughout the states, conducts federal legislative analysis on health reform and other policy issues, and manages several leadership and quality improvement initiatives

 

 

Ann Woodward, Chief Operating Officer and Interim Executive Director, Melville Charitable Trust 

Ann brings to the grant-making and community investment work of the Trust over 25 years experience in improving outcomes for vulnerable populations through non-profit affordable and supportive housing, community development, and public programs that support alternative education and employment training in low income communities.

 

 

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Connecticut Health Foundation is the Newest Funder for Social Innovation Fund Initiative

The Connecticut Health Foundation has joined several foundations as a partner and supporter of CSH's Social Innovation Fund Initiative to improve health and reduce costs among vulnerable men and women whose complex health conditions and poor access to health and housing contribute to rising health care costs.  This new support builds upon the CT Health's prior support to CSH in Connecticut, which helped to increase collaboration and services integration between supportive housing and Federally Qualified Health Centers.

"The Connecticut Health Foundation is committed to eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities in Connecticut through advancing solutions, systems integration and rigorous evaluation. CT Health is thus pleased to be a funding partner of the Connecticut Integrated Healthcare and Housing Neighborhoods Social Innovation Fund Initiative. People of color are a disproportionate segment of the homeless population living with chronic conditions. Supportive housing that integrates a culturally and linguistically appropriate health home that addresses physical and mental health needs is a promising model for reducing health care disparities while reducing costs," says Elizabeth Myung Sook Krause, Senior Program Officer, Connecticut Health Foundation.

The CT Health Foundation has been a catalyst for reforming the state's health care system to increase health equity and quality.  CSH is proud to have them as a partner.

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CSH Named $2 million Awardee of "NEXT Opportunity Award"

CSH has been awarded $2 million by the nation’s largest awards program for community development financial institutions (CDFIs), the Wells Fargo NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance. CSH will use the $2 million award to expand lending activities in communities that have high levels of chronic homelessness and the greatest need for supportive housing through a National Loan Fund. The fund will enable CSH to expand into 10 underserved markets and will spur the creation of nearly 10,000 supportive and affordable housing units over 10 years.

The Wells Fargo NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance are presented by Opportunity Finance Network with support from Wells Fargo, The Kresge Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The NEXT Awards is the nation’s largest awards program for the CDFI industry. It recognizes innovative and high-impact CDFIs that bring needed financing to low-income, low-wealth, and other disadvantaged people and communities across the U.S.

“CSH is honored to receive a Wells Fargo NEXT Award for Opportunity Finance. We will use the award to expand on our 20 years of success using supportive housing to build strong, healthy communities,” says CSH President & CEO, Deborah De Santis.

See a video celebrating CSH's work as a CDFI and our Next Award win (our video is in first row).

Awardees were honored at a celebration on October 16 at Opportunity Finance Network’s annual Conference in San Antonio, TX.

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Meet the CSH Board: Stephen Norman

Q:  Why did you join the CSH Board?
I joined the CSH board because I believe deeply in the mission and in the approach that CSH is taking to address homelessness. It is an extraordinarily talented staff and board building on twenty years of experience and success.

Q: What excites you the most about CSH’s work in supportive housing?
Providing communities with the tools and support needed to craft local solutions – and the real difference that housing makes in people’s lives.

Q: What role can public housing authorities play in supportive housing?
Housing Authorities already house many of the most at-risk households in our communities. They are taking the lead in assuring that veterans, men and women who served in our armed forces, are not left on the streets. They are working with school districts to address the growing numbers of homeless students. They are helping child welfare systems reunite parents and children. Housing alone will not provide the full answer – partnerships between housing and services are critical to assuring the success of these efforts.

Q: Where do you see the industry in 10 years?
Safe affordable housing underpins so much in our communities – health, educational success, even the ability to get a job and be self-supporting. We need better recognition of the downstream benefits, both financial and social, of assuring that everyone has a home. In 10 years I would see affordable housing and  appropriate support services integrated into the healthcare system, reducing overall healthcare costs, and available for all children – helping to promote academic success and our global economic competitiveness.

Stephen Norman is the Executive Director of the King County Housing Authority.

Housing Credit Policies in 2012 that Promote Supportive Housing

What is a leading way to promote developing supportive housing across the nation?  To create incentives in Qualified Allocation Plans (QAPs).  QAPs are the document that housing credit agencies use to state their priorities and regulations for allocating low income housing tax credits.  CSH is pleased to present “Housing Credit Policies in 2012 that Promote Supportive Housing.”  This new report builds on our assessment of 2010 and 2011 QAP policies and examines the strategies housing credit agencies adopted to foster and encourage supportive housing development, highlighting significant changes made within QAPs this year.  It also describes trends in the industry, and calls out specific examples of policies that improve the production, quality or financing of supportive housing.

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CSH Releases New PHA Toolkit for Supportive Housing

Public Housing Agencies across the country increasingly want to improve opportunities for homeless and other vulnerable households. Today, CSH released a new interactive technical assistance tool to help. The CSH PHA Toolkit is a guide to how PHAs can work with service providers to create supportive housing opportunities for the people who need them most. Chase Bank provided support to make the PHA Toolkit possible.

Online now at csh.org/phatoolkit, this new resource provides tools, examples and advice for PHAs venturing into or expanding work in supportive housing. Everything PHAs need to create supportive housing is just a click away, including:

  • Promising practices
  • PHA profiles
  • Sample documents and agreements
  • Glossary of service terms
  • Partnership models

CSH is working with PHAs around the country to help them get started with supportive housing. Learn more about our work at csh.org/pha.

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PHA Toolkit for Supportive Housing

Public Housing Agencies across the country increasingly want to improve opportunities for homeless and other vulnerable households.  The CSH PHA Toolkit is a guide to how PHAs can work with service providers to create supportive housing opportunities for the people who need them most.

The PHA Toolkit is sponsored by  

Housing Credit Policies in 2012 that Promote Supportive Housing

CSH is pleased to present “Housing Credit Policies in 2012 that Promote Supportive Housing,” available for download at csh.org. This new report builds on our assessment of 2010 and 2011 Qualified Allocation Plan (QAP) policies and examines the strategies housing credit agencies adopted to foster and encourage supportive housing development within QAPs for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (Housing Credit), highlighting significant changes made within QAPs this year. CSH examined 54 QAPs for this report.

Supportive Housing Reducing Medicaid Costs and Improving Health Outcomes: A Review and Update of the Evidence

The first webinar in CSH’s ongoing healthcare series will provide a summary of evidence illustrating that, by identifying and targeting vulnerable populations, community after community has found housing connected to health services improves health outcomes and reduces Medicaid costs for current enrollees who are high-cost, high frequenters of emergency rooms, hospitals and nursing homes. 

Financing & Delivering Comprehensive Supportive Housing Services for Older Adults and Seniors Webinar

This webinar will give participants service delivery ideas that help residents 'age in place'. In addition, these services must be financed and this population is typically eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits.  Blending these insurance programs and determining the services they reimburse is essential.  Speakers will provide insight on how these programs and other funding opportunities can be used to finance services in supportive housing for older adults.

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