2021 Keynote Presentations


The RESILIENT Response to COVID-19

Keynote Panel
Housing as a Human Right: Including Everyone
Workshop Sessions
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | Session 1
The Old Way Just Isn’t Working: Person-Centered, Data-Driven, Technology First Care
The need for services increases while provider agencies continue to face challenges with staff shortages, budget cuts, and unstable funding sources. These challenges demand an innovative solution and a shift from the traditional care model. Integrating technology and providing remote support is a proven solution that many stakeholders are familiar with, but too few actively take the necessary first steps. This session will be a dynamic conversation between leaders on an innovative technology-first approach and how to implement this transformative care model to address questions on barriers, cost, impact, risk, capacity, and sustainability.
Moderator:
Minding the Gap - Narrowing the Financing Gap in Development
New or renewed capital funding alone will not solve all financing needs for supportive developments. This panel with explore how successful collaborations with municipal and financial partners can bridge the gap that leads to much needed homes for people with special needs.
Moderator:
Randi Moore
CEO
Affordable Housing Alliance
Jason Ray
President
SimplyHome, LLC
Nathan Gerhard
Associate Executive Director
for Intellectual Disabilities Services
Keystone Human Services, PA
Asish Patel
COO
Monarch Housing
Associates
Jacob Day
Community Investment
Business Development Associate
Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
Rosy Dafonseca
Assistant Director of Multifamily/Supported
Housing and Lending
NJHMFA
Erin Stankiewicz
Planner
CGP&H
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Session 2
What’s Next for Behavioral Health Benefits in New Jersey FamilyCare?
This workshop will examine the behavioral health landscape in other state Medicaid markets across the nation as well as proposed changes to mental health and substance abuse service delivery in New Jersey. Integration of physical health and behavioral health care can produce better health outcomes via a whole person care framework. New Jersey is applying to the federal government for approval to integrate physical health and behavioral health care services within the New Jersey FamilyCare program. This panel will discuss the experiences of other states that have integrated these services.
At the Intersection of Health and Housing, Partnerships to End Homelessness
The State of New Jersey is continuing to commit resources to support the scale of innovative community-based solutions to address the needs of vulnerable, at-risk populations facing homelessness. Cross sector collaborations and partnerships are at the heart of innovative trends where homelessness has become a critical challenge. Through this moderated panel discussion practitioners in the field from California, New York and New Jersey will highlight emerging models of partnerships being developed to support at-risk, homeless populations at the intersection of health and housing. The panel will discuss critical components for success including designing co-located services, and opportunities for new financing models through Medicaid reimbursements and other impact investing models.
Ann Basil, LCSW
Director of Behavioral Health Services
Amerigroup NJ, Inc.
Dr. Dheeraj Raina
Manager, Medical Director
Anthem, Inc.
Dr. Fatimah Tahil
Medical Director
Amerigroup NJ, Inc.
Pat Gillespie
RVP for State Affairs
Amerigroup
Candace Robinson
Director, Healthy Communities
Capital Impact Partners
Brenda Goldstein
Chief of Integrated Services
Lifelong Medical, Berkeley CA
Mohini Mishra
Vice President
Selfhelp NYC
Nadine Azari
Associate
Monarch Housing
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | Session 1
Mission Ready: Supporting Veterans with Permanent Homes & Services
National experts discuss policy and strategy to combat issues facing homeless veterans while New Jersey leaders offer successful models of community-based projects that are quickly becoming a blueprint for opening doors for veterans across the nation.
Addressing Inequities Creates Healthy Communities
At no time have factors converged that more clearly illuminate the links between the risks of climate change, decades of racial inequity and health disparities. Can the key to addressing all be creating affordable, green homes? Stakeholders from the sectors of health, investment and development discuss a future of sustainable opportunities for all.
Kathryn Monet
CEO
National Coalition
for Homeless Veterans
Jim Scanlon
Ad Hoc Chairman
Affordable Housing
for at Risk / Homeless Veterans
National Commission
on Homelessness
Past Department Vice Commander
American Legion, Dept. of New Jersey
Vincent Kane
Director
Wilmington VA Medical Hospital
Delaware
Bernadette E. Blackstock
CEO, President
People for People Foundation
Wednesday, November 10, 2020
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM | Session 2
Medicaid and Housing Supports, A Game Changer
For people finding or maintaining a permanent home receiving housing support services is critical. For agencies who provide these services the opportunity to receive Medicaid funding to deliver them is a game changer.
Moderator:
Marcella Maguire
Health Systems Integration Director
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Being Seen and Heard, Voices of People with Lived Experience
Learning from the experts, Peri Nearon, Executive Director of the NJ Division of Disability Services (DDS) will moderate a panel of advocates who will share their challenges, hopes and dreams.
Jennifer Langer Jacobs
Assistant Commissioner
Division of Medical
Assistance and Health Services
New Jersey Department
of Human Services
Michelle Brophy
Associate Director
Rhode Island Department
of Behavioral Healthcare
Developmental Disabilities,
and Hospitals
David Bridge
Director of Housing Programs
Arizona Health Care
Cost Containment System
Rob Ethiers
Deputy Director
Money Follows the Person Program
Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services