Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Seasoned health and human services professional with over 25 years of clinical, private sector, and government experience aimed at improving the health and well-being of children and families. Develop, lead, and oversee national social and health policy and programs in children’s health, mental health, and the prevention of abuse and neglect. Broad experience in program development, policy analysis, budget planning and execution, and management. Sought after to develop innovative solutions to complex organizational and interpersonal challenges.
Concurrently with the Director, provides national leadership in planning, directing, coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating national programs focusing on the promotion of health and prevention of disease and injury among children, adolescents, and their families with special emphasis on the development on the development and implementation of family-centered, comprehensive, coordinated, community-based, and culturally competent systems of care for such populations • Acts in the absence of the Director in all matters and provide a central point of reference for grant programs relating to all Division responsibilities, information development, and dissemination for senior leadership • Assists in managerial decisions of programmatic and operating resources; make decisions and/or recommendations which materially influence actions to be taken in the Division, including manpower, fiscal, logistics, and other resources required to carry out assigned functions in an effective manner • Assists in establishing program goals, policies, objectives, and priorities in terms of current operating experience, program progress, and health priorities, particularly related to improve the implementation of Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) program goals • Primarily responsible for the establishment, maintenance, and improvement of overall Division operations, including the development, management, and monitoring of the Division budget of $75 million; recruitment, selection, and performance monitoring of over 20 staff; development and implementation of internal standard operating procedures; and effective use of technology to support business operations
Lead and oversee a diverse portfolio of investments to improve the health and safety of the nation’s children and youth, including access to oral and behavioral health care, school health and safety, injury prevention, the prevention and management of exposure to childhood trauma, and the Poison Control Program • Participate with the Division Director in providing leadership and direction in strategic alignment of the grant portfolio with the Division mission • Assist in managerial decisions of subordinate staff, and of programmatic and operating resources • Perform supervisory duties such as reviewing and assigning work, providing administrative and technical support, evaluating performance, and recommending promotions/selections • Develop, analyze, and evaluate policies, programs, guidelines, and regulations relating to Maternal and Child Health (MCH) programs, especially those relating to child, adolescent, and family health promotion and prevention • Make decisions and/or recommendations related to resources required to execute, and continuously improve, programs and policies • Provide expert advice to senior staff, as well as leadership and guidance to all staff, in health promotion and prevention, child injury and violence prevention, and the linkages across other MCH programs • Design and lead the implementation of strategies to connect state and jurisdictional Title V MCH Programs with expert consultation and technical assistance to improve healthcare delivery to mothers, children, and their families • Develop, build and maintain effective partnerships at the national, state, and local levels to assure alignment and synergy between and among the health promotion and prevention efforts of HRSA and the public and private sectors • Certified Level II Contracting Officer Representative
Perform supervisory duties such as reviewing and assigning work, providing administrative and technical • Assist in managerial decisions of subordinate staff, and of programmatic and operating resources • Provide expert advice to senior staff, as well as leadership and guidance to staff, in health promotion and prevention, as well as in child injury and violence prevention, including sudden unexpected infant death incidence and bullying prevalence • Serve as project officer to the Children's Safety Network and Bright Futures Pediatric Implementation Programs • Lead the myriad activities under the Bright Futures Program, including improving access to and quality of preventive care, as well as the review and acceptance of update to the Periodicity Schedule for the purpose insurance coverage for preventive services • Design and lead the implementation of strategies to connect state and jurisdictional Title V MCH Programs with expert consultation and technical assistance to improve healthcare delivery to Create, build, and maintain key public/private partnerships to assure alignment and synergy between and among HRSA's injury prevention efforts and that of the public and private sectors • Certified Level II Contracting Officer Representative
Provide leadership and oversight of the title IV-E child welfare waiver demonstration projects, which includes 32 projects in 30 states, the District of Columbia, and 1 tribal nation, comprising the majority of the national foster care budget of $7 billion, and $30 million in technical assistance and evaluation support contracts • Provide leadership and direction to ensure accountability for the title IV-E waiver program • Monitor, identify, analyze, and evaluate complex national child welfare policy and regulatory issues, to assess the overall impact on immediate, foreseeable, and long-range program direction, and to provide policy options and alternatives • Provide information, advice and recommendations to senior level program managers concerning legislative and regulatory policy and the impact on program implementation of title IV-E waiver demonstrations, grants, and cooperative agreements • Certified Level II Contracting Officer Representative • Develop, prepare, support publication, and support the review of funding opportunity announcements for grants and cooperative agreements, and solicitation packages for procurements • Develop and implement a large, complex, national capacity building contract to assist States and local child welfare agencies in resolving complex problems and improving the delivery of services to children and families • Prepare issue and decision papers, policy-related documents, correspondence, and responses to information requests from Congress, senior officials, or other stakeholders, including letters, briefing materials, and testimony • Represent the agency and provide programmatic information and technical assistance on programmatic policies, procedures and practices at conferences, workshops, meetings and seminars, including public speaking • Participate in state program review monitoring, quality systematic review, and program improvement activities to improve States' and Tribes' provision of child and family services
Serve as senior advisor to the Deputy Director of Children’s Services, the division responsible for administering unaccompanied children (UC) shelter and post release programs • Recognized expert and key advisor with extensive authority and accountability for the coordination of policy development, program implementation, training, technical assistance; and for information dissemination related to all child welfare activities, practices, programs, and interests across the Division of Children’s Services • Responsible for reviewing and revising policies and procedures of the UC program to reflect best practices in child welfare • Charged with ensuring the UC program is fully executing the recommendations identified in the staff report issued by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations within the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
Plan and manage the full spectrum of duties related to a public health program in the area of mental health services and support to children, adolescents, and their families • Serve as project officer for children's mental health grants, including $81 million for the Children's Mental Health Initiative (CMHI) System of Care cooperative agreements; $3 million for the CMHI System of Care Expansion Planning grants • Collect and analyze data to address program needs • Review and evaluate program operations and develop recommendations or decisions for program strategies, modifications, improvements, and/or funding • Oversee provision of technical assistance to assist grantees in resolving complex problems and improving the delivery of mental health services to children and families • Maintained liaison with other Federal agencies and national organizations for planning and coordination of child and family services activities and for exchange of information • Provide programmatic information and technical assistance on programmatic policies, procedures and practices at conferences, workshops, meetings and seminars • Respond to controlled correspondence as requested
Served as project officer for child welfare contracts and grants, including $22.5 million for child welfare-led systems of care cooperative agreements; $6 million for the national evaluation and technical assistance support contract to the systems of care initiative; $8.5 million for a child welfare technical assistance implementation center; and $5 million for a contract to provide technical assistance to grantees on evaluation and for a cross-site evaluation • Developed, prepared, supported publication, and supported the review of funding opportunity announcements targeting child welfare programs, including the $100 million Initiative to Reduce Long-term Foster Care • Developed and prepared packages for solicitation of procurements, including the technical assistance support contract to the Initiative to Reduce Long-term Foster Care grants • Analyzed child and family services area, public child welfare agencies and service delivery systems to identify problems • Developed and implemented technical assistance programs and solutions to assist States and local child welfare agencies in resolving complex problems and improving the delivery of services to children and families • Developed and implemented innovative strategies to promote widespread dissemination of knowledge developed from grant activities to State child and family services • Maintained liaison with other Federal agencies and national organizations for planning and coordination of child and family services activities and for exchange of information • Directed, reviewed the quality, and ensured timely completion of the development of products, such as publications, tool kits, and web-based materials • Provided programmatic information and technical assistance on programmatic policies, procedures and practices at conferences, workshops, meetings and seminars • Responded to controlled correspondence as requested
Supported the Children’s Bureau (CB) in conducting regulatory reviews of State foster care programs’ compliance with title IV-E foster care statutory eligibility requirements, as well as child and family services reviews (CFSR) • Maintained liaison with Federal project and other CB staff and State agencies, in preparation for and following the completion of title IV-E foster care eligibility reviews • Developed and monitored database for all review-related materials • Managed the collection and reporting of data obtained from title IV-E foster care eligibility reviews • Designed, developed, and revised training curricula • Assisted in providing technical assistance to Federal staff and consultants related to title IV-E foster care eligibility reviews and CFSRs • Monitored for training effectiveness through analysis of participant evaluations • Served as direct supervisor for four staff