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Clients
- AARP Georgia
- Easter Seals Coalition of Georgia
- Georgia Association for Training Employment and Supports (GATES)
- Georgia Community Support and Solutions (GCSS)
- Georgia Council on Substance Abuse (GCSA)
- Magellan Health Services
- Services Providers Association on Developmental Disabilities (SPADD)
Budget Victories
- 2002: 1,232 people served with disabilities in community-based services (Result of the funding recommendations of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Community-Based Services)
- 2004: 50 people
served (Budget Analyst to Unlock the Waiting Lists!)
$350,000 for new treatment for Drug Courts (Lobbyist for GA Council on SA) - 2005: 30 new slots (Legislative Liaison and Budget Analyst for Unlock and Budget)
- 2006: $7,492,000 million state dollars to provide a 4.5% rate increase to all developmental disability providers of Medicaid funded services (Lobbyist for SPADD)
Legislative Success Highlights
- 1997-1999: Served as the analyst and legislative liaison on the budget initiative to close Brook Run and move funding to serve consumers in the community as well as expand services for people on the waiting list.
- 2000: Served on the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force for Community-Based Services. Assisted with research and authored final report.
- 2000: SB 479, Ombudsman for Mental Health Developmental Disabilities Addictive Disease (MHDDAD), successful passage but office unfunded.
- 2002: Legislative lead for MHDDAD advocates on the HB 498. This bill modified HB 100 of 1993. Private agencies, advocates and consumers did not want Regional Boards eliminated so I worked on a compromise to keep the boards in tact although compromises where made on their roles and governing authority.
- 2005: Representing AARP Georgia on consumer, health care and long-term care bills and budget items to develop new and expanded services for community care.
"Nothing gives one person so great advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
– Thomas Jefferson (1816)
