CAROL BIANCO Director of Mental Health Carol Bianco has provided consultation and training to state and local mental health departments and community-based organizations throughout the states and US territories. Her expertise includes mental health policy and financing, organizational development, supportive housing development and financing, supported employment, and job creation for people with disabilities. At AHP, she has directed several contracts for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that assist states and territories in implementing the recommendations of the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, and provide resources and technical assistance to the mental health community regarding best practices to promote community integration for children and adults with mental disorders. Currently, she also serves as a Technical Assistance Consultant/Advisor for the Center for Mental Health Service’s Mental Health Transformation State Incentive Grant Program. She is the former Director of Program Development for New York State’s largest provider of supportive housing and community psychiatric rehabilitation programs for adults with serious mental illnesses, where she led the development of more than 1,000 units of housing and dozens of community support programs throughout the state. Over the past ten years Ms. Bianco has served on the Board and volunteered for two mental health consumer-run organizations in New York State, assisting with grant-writing, program development, strategic planning, and systems advocacy. Ms. Bianco is also the parent of a multiply disabled school-age child.
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