AFFILIATES
The TAC team includes a network of independent consultants and organizations that share our mission and have regular contractual relationships with us.
Independent Consultants
Colette Croze, M.S.W., has over 30 years’ experience in the public behavioral health system, working for county and state governments in senior management positions, including in Missouri and Illinois. She specializes in public resource management, focusing on purchasing and design options for managed systems of care and integrated health strategies. Ms. Croze has worked with numerous states and counties that have re-engineered public systems through the use of care management and risk arrangements with both public and private organizations. Many of her consulting engagements have involved the development of federal Medicaid waivers and state plan amendments. Recent engagements include providing coaching and technical assistance under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Innovation Accelerator Program on state Medicaid-housing agency partnerships and on substance use disorders (SUDs), and evaluating a local SUD treatment and recovery system for adequacy and best practices. Prior to beginning her private consulting practice, Ms. Croze was Senior Consultant to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors where she advised states on aligning public mental health systems with Medicaid managed behavioral health care initiatives.
Stephen L. Day, M.S.W., is co-founder and former Executive Director of TAC. Mr. Day has over 40 years’ experience specializing in service system improvement and financing strategies, organizational development and management, strategic planning, interagency service coordination and integration strategies, consumer-based outcome and performance measurement, and the implementation of evidence-based and best practice mental health, substance use, intellectual and developmental disabilities, aging, and related human services. At TAC, Mr. Day provided technical assistance and consultation on state-level service planning, implementation, and innovative and best practice financing strategies for community-based services for people with disabilities and chronic conditions, specifically with regard to Medicaid state plan and waiver services. He has provided consultation to national policy and advocacy organizations, and contributed to major national policy initiatives on state-level system improvements.
Rusty Dennison, M.A., M.B.A., is President and co-founder of the national health care and consulting firm Parker Dennison & Associates, and has over 25 years of clinical, administrative, and consulting experience in a variety of behavioral health and child welfare settings. Mr. Dennison has assisted providers, governmental authorities, and managed care organizations in over 40 states with 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 use disorder, and child welfare service areas.
Patti Holland, M.S., has over 25 years of experience working to advance recovery-oriented services and systems, with an emphasis on supportive housing, psychiatric rehabilitation, and evidence-based practices. She has provided technical assistance to several states on developing supportive housing services under Medicaid, with an emphasis on provider qualifications, certification, and training. Currently, she is the Assistant Director for Mindfulness in Public Health and Medicine Initiatives at Brown University, where she designs and teaches evidence-based therapeutic mindfulness training and programs for individuals experiencing stress-related health conditions and those with behavioral health conditions including anxiety, depression, and substance use disorders. Prior to this, she was a Senior Associate at TAC where she led a permanent supportive housing provider TA, training, and coaching initiative in Louisiana to support evidence-based supportive housing service delivery for a cross-disability population. Ms. Holland’s consulting work reflects a comprehensive approach to systems change and service delivery. Her past experience includes positions held in nonprofit administration, academia, and state government. She has worked in leadership positions in prominent nonprofit organizations in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. She served as an Assistant Director for the New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services, leading the Office of Housing, Policy, Planning and Evaluation, and was an Assistant Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Department of Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Behavioral Healthcare.
Henry Korman, J.D., is an attorney in private practice specializing in civil rights and fair housing, affordable housing development, and affordable housing compliance. His work includes a long history of advocacy for the housing and civil rights of people with disabilities, and he is a national expert in the development of integrated permanent supportive housing models that utilize mainstream housing resources. He worked extensively with TAC on a successful effort to reform Section 8 regulations that posed significant barriers to supportive housing development. He works collaboratively with TAC on state-level policies and advocacy efforts at the federal, state, and local levels to promote and facilitate integrated, community-based affordable housing opportunities for people with disabilities.
Kappy Madenwald, M.S.W., has more than 20 years of clinical and administrative experience in behavioral health. She has extensive experience in mobile, community-based, and hospital-based delivery and management of crisis intervention services. Ms. Madenwald specializes in the design, implementation, and evaluation of person-centered service delivery systems — including comprehensive state and community crisis systems — that are integrated at 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. Ms. Madenwald has worked directly on state-level service planning and implementation initiatives in Massachusetts, Maryland, Iowa, North Carolina, and Georgia, and at the regional/local level in Oregon, Pennsylvania, and California. She has provided direct technical assistance to county, regional, and local authorities and nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Ms. Madewald was a principal contributor to TAC's monograph A Community-Based Comprehensive Psychiatric Crisis Response System (TAC 2005).
Ann O'Hara is the co-founder and former Associate Director of TAC. Ms. O’Hara is nationally known for her public policy work to expand affordable and permanent supportive housing opportunities for people with disabilities and for her expertise in housing programs for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. She has over 30 years of experience in federal, state, and local affordable housing policy and is an expert in the use of federal affordable and subsidized housing programs to meet the needs of vulnerable low-income populations. While at TAC, Ms. O’Hara worked with the Washington, D.C.-based Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Housing Task Force to successfully advocate for national housing policy initiatives and develop legislative proposals leading to the creation of more than 100,000 new subsidized housing opportunities for people with disabilities. She led a successful effort to modernize and reform the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Section 811 Supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities program through enactment of the Frank Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010.
Susan Parker, C.P.A., M.T., is Executive Vice President and co-founder of the national health care and consulting firm Parker Dennison & Associates, and has significant experience in the fiscal and operational aspects of publicly funded community behavioral health systems, having worked with providers, state and local funding authorities, and managed care organizations in more than 40 states. Ms. Parker focuses on assisting with design and implementation of new and restructured 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 environments, having worked with hundreds of providers in large group training and individual provider site visit settings.
Charleen Regan has worked in affordable and supportive housing development for over 35 years. Ms. Regan has worked extensively with state housing agencies, intermediaries, and foundations on strategies to produce affordable, integrated housing for homeless individuals and families and for persons with disabilities. She has also helped community development corporations and service providers to develop or access affordable housing for a variety of residents requiring specialized or supportive housing. Prior to her consulting practice, she was the senior program manager at Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation (CEDAC) in Boston where she managed the lending and underwriting staff for the Commonwealth's supportive housing capital programs, and provided technical assistance and pre-development and permanent loans to nonprofit developers and service providers to build their capacity to create supportive housing.
Virginia Selleck, Ph.D., has worked in psychiatric rehabilitation for over 40 years and has experience in recovery systems reform, program development and implementation, funding issues, legislation, and policy. She has held leadership positions in state government in Minnesota and Missouri, and with community mental health providers in rural Illinois, urban Chicago, and St. Louis. She has extensive speaking, training, and consulting experience in a number of states about issues germane to psychiatric rehabilitation — employment in particular — and systems change. Dr. Selleck has provided consultation and subject matter expertise to states under the Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Programs, and serves as a practice coach for the Missouri Coalition for Behavioral Healthcare, working with Community Mental Health Center’s Health Care Homes and the Missouri Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers. Her consulting work with TAC includes supporting the integration of supported employment services for the State of Washington under its Medicaid 1115 Demonstration Waiver, and for the State of Louisiana on a U.S. Department of Justice settlement agreement target population with serious mental illness.
Naomi Sweitzer has 20 years of nonprofit leadership and consulting experience related to meeting the affordable housing and services needs of low-income and homeless families and individuals. Ms. Sweitzer draws on her extensive knowledge of public affordable and supportive housing and homelessness programs and policies at the local, state, and federal levels in her work. Her expertise includes creating and managing housing solutions to homelessness, and providing support for strategic leadership, financial management, staff and program development, management of external relationships, policy advocacy, evaluation and outcomes measurement, training design, grants management, and fundraising within organizations. Prior to her consulting work, she launched New Lease for Homeless Families, an initiative to decrease family homelessness in Massachusetts. She also served as the Assistant Executive Director at HomeStart, a Boston-based organization that provides housing and supports to homeless and low-income families and individuals.
Gina Verne, M.P.A., has over 15 years of experience in behavioral health management overseeing operations, staff development and training, human resource management, grant writing, strategic planning, and program development. She has developed and supervised supportive housing programs including medically enhanced and residential intensive programs, supported employment, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), crisis intervention services, and support teams for addiction recovery. In addition to serving as Director of the New Jersey ACT Training and Technical Assistance Center for 10 years, Ms. Verne has provided training and consultation to state-level, managed care, and provider agency staff across the country on ACT, psychiatric rehabilitation, supportive housing, supported employment, recovery-focused engagement and assertive outreach, illness management/recovery, and community integration. Recent consulting projects have included training curriculum development and delivery on implementing evidence-based supportive housing services under Medicaid.
Organizations
Human Services Research Institute (HSRI) has provided consultation and conducted research efforts at the state and federal levels for over 35 years in the fields of intellectual and developmental disabilities, substance use and prevention, mental health, and child and family services. HSRI works to assist public managers and human service organizations to develop services and supports that work for children, adults, and families; enhance the involvement of individuals and their families in shaping policy, priorities and practice; improve the capacity of systems, organizations, and individuals to cope with changes in fiscal, administrative, and political realities; and expand the use of research, performance measurement and evaluation to improve and enrich lives.
