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AFFILIATES AND CONSULTANTS
TAC has contractual relationships with a number of seasoned experts who share TAC's commitment to the needs of persons with mental illness and other disabilities. James Canavan is a consultant on TAC's VA TA initiative. Jim also regularly consults on developing permanent supportive housing for homeless veterans for Soldier On, a non-profit organization in Leeds, MA. A Vietnam Veteran, Jim has developed a variety of new models to provide... Colette Croze is an Independent Consultant for TAC, specializing in the development of state-level strategies to develop and implement options for state-operated services competing in a managed care environment. From a national perspective, she can interpret federal and state statutes and regulations that...
View More  impact the implementation of managed care financing approaches. Colette's public experience includes serving in senior management positions in mental health agencies in Missouri and Illinois. In Illinois, she was responsible for state facilities serving almost 6000 individuals. Rusty Dennison, President and founder of Parker Dennison, is an Independent Consultant for TAC, with 23 years clinical, administrative, and consulting experience in a variety of behavioral health and child welfare settings. Rusty has assisted providers, governmental authorities and managed...
View More care organizations in over 40 states providing training, consulting, project management, and technical assistance in care/utilization management, provider network readiness, affiliation/partnering, accountability systems, quality improvement, restructuring, strategic planning, and management/leadership re-engineering. He has been a central team member in seven public sector managed care implementations and numerous local/regional projects including mental health, substance abuse and child welfare service areas. A long time affiliate of the non-profit trade association, the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare, Rusty has specialized in public sector and community based service systems.Soni Gupta is a consultant on TAC's VA TA Initiative. Soni has 15 years of experience in developing new affordable rental and homeownership opportunities for various populations including homeless individuals and families. Soni's expertise includes the provision of technical assistance .... Henry Korman is an attorney in private practice specializing in civil rights and fair housing, affordable housing development, and affordable housing compliance and is an IC for TAC. His work includes a long history of advocacy for the housing and civil rights of people with disabilities and he is considered a national expert...
View More in the development of integrated PSH models that utilize mainstream housing resources. He worked extensively with TAC on our successful effort to reform Section 8 regulations that posed significant barriers to PSH development by CSH and other non-profits. He also works collaboratively with TAC on state-level policies projects that promote and facilitate integrated, community-based affordable housing opportunities available to people with disabilities, and on policy advocacy with federal, state, and local agencies that improve access to integrated, community-based affordable housing opportunities for people with the most severe and long-term disabilities.Kappy Madenwald, MSW, is an Independent Consultant for TAC, with more than 20 years of clinical and administrative experience in behavioral healthcare. Previously the Director of Clinical Services at Netcare Corporation, the primary provider of mental health, alcohol and other drug crisis and assessment services in...
View More Columbus, Ohio, Kappy has extensive experience in mobile, community-based and hospital-based delivery and management of crisis intervention services. She specializes in the design, implementation and evaluation of person-centered service delivery systems -- including comprehensive state or community crisis systems -- that are integrated at both a systems and direct care level, are delivered in a fashion that promotes self-direction and recovery, are least restrictive/least intensive in nature and that are designed to assure timely and purposeful movement through care. Kappy has worked directly on state level service planning and implementation initiatives in Massachusetts, Maryland, Iowa, North Carolina and Georgia and at a regional/local level in Oregon, Pennsylvania and California. She has also provided direct technical assistance to numerous county, regional or local authorities or non-profit organizations throughout the United States. Kappy was a principle contributor to TAC's monograph: A Community-Based Comprehensive Psychiatric Crisis Response System (TAC 2005). In addition, she is the Director of Operations for the Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce. The Annapolis Coalition the Annapolis Coalition is dedicated to improving the recruitment, retention, training, and performance of the prevention and treatment workforce in the mental health and addictions sectors of the behavioral health field.John Morris, MSW, is an Independent Consultant for TAC. John has extensive experience in the management and executive leadership of clinical programs and systems of care for adults and youth with mental health and substance use conditions. In addition, he has been an educator and researcher and...
View More is a national expert on workforce development in behavioral health, having both consulted and published extensively in this area. He is currently a consultant to four states on policy, financing and behavioral health elements of juvenile justice reform. He has experience in cross-systems program and policy development, and has advised states and foundations on information sharing for policy development and program evaluation. John has worked in multiple jurisdictions on the implementation of evidence-based practices. In addition, he is currently editing the 2nd edition of Turning Knowledge into Practice, a manual for administrators on selecting and implementing Evidence-Based Practices.John is a former state executive (deputy director and director of the South Carolina Department of Mental Health) after a long career in public behavioral health. He was professor and director of health policy studies in the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the USC School of Medicine, where he retains a clinical appointment as professor of neuropsychiatry and behavioral sciences. He is a former vice-president of Comprehensive NeuroScience, Inc., and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Mental Health America. Rebecca Muller is a consultant on TAC's VA TA initiative. Rebecca has 20 years experience providing grant-writing, program design, training and start-up support for organizations serving homeless populations including veterans. Her grant writing and program knowledge expertise ... Susan Parker, is Executive Vice President and co-founder of Parker Dennison. She is an Independent Consultant for TAC, with significant experience in the fiscal and operational aspects of publicly funded community behavioral health systems, having worked with providers, state and...
View More local funding authorities and managed care organizations in more than 40 states. Ms. Parker focuses on assisting with design and implementation of new and re-structured service, reimbursement, regulatory and managed care initiatives, bringing her extensive experience with provider operations for a practical approach. Ms. Parker has extensive hands-on experience assisting providers in making the operational adjustments necessary for successful performance in fee for service Medicaid rehabilitation environment having worked with hundreds of providers in large group training and individual provider site visit settings. She is a certified public accountant and has a Master's from the University of Denver.Pathways to Housing, under founder Sam Tsemberis, has worked collaboratively with TAC since 1995. Pathways' mission is to end homelessness for people who suffer from psychiatric disabilities by providing housing first and then giving support and treatment for their recovery and integration into the community. Pathways ends homelessness and supports recovery...
View More by providing immediate access to permanent independent apartments without requiring treatment or sobriety as a precondition for housing; providing support and treatment with a philosophy that is founded on the principles of consumer choice and harm reduction; and conducting research to find new and effective approaches to recovery and community integration for people with psychiatric disabilities. Rod Solomon joined the law firm of Hawkins Delafield & Wood LLP in 2003 and is assisting TAC and the State of Louisiana on policy and legal issues related to the 3,000 unit PSH initiative. His practice covers affordable housing issues, particularly regulatory and financing concerns and innovative...
View More ways in which Public Housing Agencies can improve and reposition their current portfolios. Previously, Rod was a Deputy Assistant Secretary in HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing and led the Clinton administration's participation in the formation of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act (or Public Housing Reform Act) enacted in 1998, as well as HUD's implementation effort. Prior to HUD, Rod served as Deputy Executive Director and Acting Executive Director of the Atlanta Housing Authority; General Counsel and head of planning, reconstruction and other divisions at the Boston Housing Authority; a U.S. Senate Legislative Assistant; and in various other positions in the housing field. Rod has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a Master's in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University. |