Jennifer Mahan Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Accountable for advancing and monitoring public policy priorities of ASNC including passage of autism insurance legislation, children with disabilities scholarship programs, advocacy on budget, health care, managed care, and other disability policy issues. Supervise lobbyists and conduct lobbying activities as needed. Provide input to public officials on legislative, rule, budget and other policy related to developmental disability and autism related activities in North Carolina. Partner with and lead coalitions working to advance disability policy. Communicate ASNC policy activities to Board and public. Grow grassroots policy activity through work with ASNC Chapters and supporters, including conducting policy and advocacy training. Support families, individuals on the spectrum, professionals and the community with information about a variety of public policy issues. Responsible for management of I&R and customer service database, including reporting on on activities, training staff, administering system, providing IT support. Supervise Resource Specialist in maintaining resources in system.

Accountable for advancing and monitoring public policy priorities of ASNC including passage of children with disabilities education tax credit, scholarship program, autism insurance legislation as well as advocacy on budget, health care, managed care, and other disability policy issues. Supervise lobbyist and conduct lobbying activities as needed. Provide input to public officials on legislative, rule, budget and other policy materials related to developmental disability and autism related activities in North Carolina. Partner with coalitions working to advance disability policy.Communicate ASNC policy activities to Board and public.Grow grassroots policy activity through work with ASNC Chapters and supporters, including conducting policy and advocacy training. Accountable for operations of ASNC Autism Resource Specialists program and ASNC Chapters: consult on cases, look for ways to improve services, report on activities and manage information and referral database, train staff. Supervise two direct reports and a total of 25 employees across the state. Manage budget for ASNC Advocacy Department. Implemented a computer based data collection and information and referral system (ASNC ReferNET).

Accountable for advancing and monitoring public policy priorities of MHA/NC. Supervise policy and advocacy staff. Reviewed legislative, rule, budget and other policy materials related to mental health activities in North Carolina. Provided verbal and written information on mental health policy issues. Coordinated volunteer activities for MHA-NC state office, including interviewing and training.Worked with and led a variety of coalitions. Developed and maintained Parity Information Network, an email service distributing parity alerts and updates. Maintained Cyber-Advocacy website using CapWiz.

Managed information and referral service connecting individuals to emergency food and nutrition resources, Food Stamps, WIC, Medicaid, Child Health Care, and other benefits programs. Managed staff, program operations and database. Program is now part of 211 system in Milwaukee. In addition, served as on call/overnight/weekend staff to Helpline as needed.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Responsible for short-term counseling of callers from the Southeastern Wisconsin community. Provided information on mental health, domestic violence, suicide, drug identification, and health issues. Referred callers to other community organizations.Served on the Interview and Training Committees responsible for screening, interviewing, training and assessing performance of new volunteers. Helpline Volunteer of the Year 1994.

Public Administration

Ba, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Chapter