The 7th Annual Georgia Supportive Housing Association Conference  

Tuesday, November 14

9:00 Registration and light breakfast

9:30 Introduction

9:45 Update from DCA

David Whisnant, Director, Office of Homeless & Special Needs Housing, Georgia Department of Community Affairs 

10:45 Break

11:00 Know What's in Your Toolbox:  Using the Existing Georgia Medicaid Infrastructure for Supportive Housing Services (1 hr CEU)

Wendy White Tiegreen, M.S.W., Director, Medicaid Coordination and Health System Innovation, Georgia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities

12:00 Lunch – kindly reassemble in the Auditorium to continue to enjoy your lunch and continue the program at 12:15

12:30 Honored Plenary Speakers - Meet Your Commissioners

Moderator:  Tod Citron, Executive Director, Behavioral Health Alliant Health Solutions

Judy Fitzgerald, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities

Christopher Nunn, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Community Affairs

1:15 Break

1:35 GSHA Award: Civic Leadership: Edward J. “Jack” Hardin, Esq.

Presented by: Raphael Holloway, Executive Director, Gateway Center

2:00 Supportive Housing and Managed Care Organizations

Jason Bearden, Vice President, Market Operations, CareSource

Angela Harris, LPC, Clinical Director, Cenpatico Behavioral Health LLC

Aviance N. Jenkins, J.D., Regulatory Compliance Consultant, Amerigroup

Adam Klein, Behavioral Health Program Manager, Wellcare Health Plans, Inc.

Jessica Schmoll, LPC, Director of Behavioral Health, CareSource

Bhavini Solanki-Vasan, LPC, Director of Behavioral Health Services, Amerigroup

3:00 Break

3:15 Peer Support as a Tool for Recovery & Housing (.75 CEU)

Wendy White Tiegreen, M.S.W., Director, Medicaid Coordination and Health System Innovation, Georgia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities

Lavonna Reed, Lead Peer Specialist II & WHAM Coach

4:00 GSHA Award: Mission Champion:  Talley Wells, Esq., Disability Integration Project, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc.

Presented by: Paul Bolster, Principal Counsultant, Support Housing LLC

Sherry Jenkins Tucker, Georgia Mental Health Consumer Network 

4:30 Close of Day

Wednesday, November 15  

9:00 Registration

9:30 Introduction

9:40 Norma Perkins, RESPECT Institute Graduate

10:00 Addressing the Homelessness & Affordable Housing Crisis  (.5 CEU)

Cathryn Marchman, LCSW, Esq., Executive Director, Partners for H.O.M.E. |  Atlanta Homeless Continuum-of-Care  

10:30 Introduction to the Metro Atlanta Reentry Coalition (MARC)

Laurel Boatright, Esq., United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of Georgia

11:00 Update from the Department of Community Supervision

Mike Kraft, Director of Field Services, Georgia Department of Community Supervision

Harris Childers, Deputy Director, Field Services

Tammy Herring, Operations Manager - Housing Unit, Field Services

11:45 Lunch – kindly reassemble in the Auditorium to continue to enjoy your lunch and continue the program at 12:00

12:00 Panel:  Producing and Preserving Affordable Housing in High Opportunity and Changing Communities – with a lens on the Atlanta Beltline and the Westside  

Moderator: William McFarland, Relationship Manager, Georgia Advancing Communities Together, Inc.

Leonard Adams, President and CEO, Quest Community Development Organization

Clyde Higgs, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Atlanta Beltline, Inc. (ABI)

1:00 Break

1:15 Current stock and future need of Supportive Housing

Doug Scott

1:45 Opportunities to Partner with Public Housing and Reduce Tobacco Use  (.75 CEU)

Dawn Rudolph, MPA

2:30 Legislative Insight for 2018 and GSHA Advocacy

Elizabeth Appley, Esq., Advocacy Aide for GSHA

Laura Colbert, Executive Director, Georgians for a Healthy Future

Andy Lord, Principal, Georgia Capitol Solutions, Inc.

3:30 Close of Conference