Senior Staff

John Rio, M.A., C.R.C.

Senior Research Associate

John Rio is a Senior Program Associate at Advocates for Human Potential and the former Co-Director of the Chronic Homelessness Employment Technical Assistance Center (CHETA) supported by the U.S. Department of Labor. He provides HUD and SAMHSA supported technical assistance. With over 35 years of experience in rehabilitation & recovery services, supportive housing, and in homeless assistance services, his work has focused on developing materials, delivering technical assistance, training and designing strategies to help increase the capacity of supportive housing and service organizations to offer employment services to formerly homeless people with substance use and mental health issues, educate government about more work encouraging social policy and assist supportive housing and service providers on innovative programming. He managed two U.S. Department of Education grants, one to link the supportive housing industry and the vocational rehabilitation system in New York City and a career advancement initiative for homeless individuals in Chicago. Before joining AHP, he was a senior staff member of the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) and directed an assertive community treatment team for St. Barnabas Hospital in New York. He co-authored and presented the paper, “Employment and Income Supports for Homeless People” at the 2007 National Symposium on Homelessness Research.

jrio@ahpnet.com