Rachel Post Email & Phone Number

Experience:• Associate Director of TAC's Systems Alignment Innovation Hub, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to elevate research conducted by and for community based organizations serving racially marginalized and socially disenfranchised communities through public health, health care and social services. • Leading TAC’s role in developing and delivering training on best practices and systems alignment on behalf of SAMHSA’s Homeless and Housing Resource Center.• Provide consultation through the California Racial Equity Action Lab to HUD Continuums of Care.• Provide consultation and training to assist the State of Washington in implementing supportive housing and supported employment services as part of the state’s Medicaid 1115 Demonstration.• Provide consultation to HUD’s ending homelessness grantees (CoCs) on behalf of HUD SNAPs.• Provide states and communities with targeted training related to SAMHSA evidence based practices to achieve greater fidelity in Permanent Supportive Housing, Assertive Community Treatment and Supported Employment models.• Managed TAC’s role with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to assist states in making housing-related services and supports available to Medicaid-eligible individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs).Publication:Arienti, F., Mann-McLellan, A., Martone, K., & Post, R. (2020). Effective Behavioral Health Crisis Care for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness. Alexandria, VA: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.Martone, K., Arienti, F., Gulley, J., & Post, R. (2022). The role of supportive housing, case management, and employment services in reducing the risk of behavioral health crisis. Technical Assistance Collaborative Paper No. 8. Alexandria, VA: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.Post, R., Boss, R., & Green, L. (2022). Boosting the Power of Harm Reduction. Technical Assistance Collaborative.

Portland, Oregon Area

Portland, Oregon Area

Responsible for collaboration with city, county, state and federal government officials, community alliances and relevant community and state agencies to advance policy initiatives in support of Central City Concern’s Healthcare for Homeless clinic, affordable housing portfolio and mission to end homelessness. • Member of Governor's Family Services Review Commission which advises DHS Director.• Member of Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Housing Community Services Commission to address supportive housing funding gaps.• Co-Chair of the statewide Oregon TANF Alliance.• Co-Chair of Joint Office on Homelessness Workforce and Economic Opportunity Subcommittee.• Presented CCC’s work nationally at industry conferences, to congressional delegation and in a congressional briefing.• Worked with Oregon Health & Science University, Kaiser Permanente, Legacy Health, Providence Health, CareOregon and Adventist Health on disseminating information about $21.5 million investment in CCC’s housing nationally.• Coordinated efforts to keep HUD, SAMHSA, the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the President’s Commission on Addictions and the Opioid Epidemic informed of CCC’s nationally recognized service system.• Served as a SAMHSA Recovery Housing Subject Matter Expert TA provider.• Contributed to HUD published Recovery Housing Policy Brief.• Conducted community-wide needs assessment to enumerate need for supportive housing units.

Managed a combined annual budget of over $3,000,000, and staff of 80 providing leadership for homeless supportive housing and employment and veterans services to over 3,000 singles and families annually, including those with criminal justice involvement.• Designed and secured first time collaborative partnership between City, Federal and State agencies to implement evidence-based benefits acquisition (SSA/Medicaid) for disabled homeless individuals.• Provided program design, implementation support, and clinical direction to evidence based practice programs.• Contributed expertise nationally, regionally and locally in areas related to supported employment and supported housing.• Provided leadership to City of Portland’s 10 Year Plan to End Homelessness Steering Committee.

Managed an annual budget of over $2,500,000; a staff of 50, designed, implemented and provided clinical supervision of 3 Assertive Community Treatment programs for homeless individuals with co-occurring disorders.• Project Director of 3-year HHS-SAMHSA Addictions Treatment for Homeless grant.• Project Director for 5-year USICH-HRSA-SAMHSA-HUD-VA Denver Housing First Collaborative Initiative to Help End Chronic Homelessness grant. • Project Director for the 3-year Social Security Administration Hope grant.• Designed, implemented and supervised city-wide, 10 Year Plan homeless street outreach program.

Portland, Oregon Area

Recruited to provide leadership in developing and implementing innovative homeless service programming; managed an annual budget of over $1,000,000.• Project Director 3-year SAMHSA Addictions Treatment for Homeless grant. • Designed and oversaw implementation and supervision of nationally awarded Community Engagement Program, an ACT team serving individuals experiencing homelessness and addictions.• Lead author for federal grant applications, including the $4.2 million awarded ICH Chronic Homeless NOFA.• Worked with Federally Qualified Health Center Committee on programmatic expansion.

Salem, Oregon

• Oversaw utilization of Psychiatric Security Review Board forensic community placements.• 2001 SAMHSA Mental Health Federal Block Grant Writer.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Successfully secured $1,000,000 from federal, state and local authorities for mental health demonstration projects.• Publication: Paulson, Post, Herinckx, Risser, April, 2002, Beyond Components: Using Fidelity Scales to Measure and Assure Choice in Program Implementation and Quality Assurance, Community Mental Health Journal.

• Led effort to secure state adoption of SAMHSA evidence based IPS supported employment practice.• Secured multi-system funding collaboration for 2 IPS supported employment pilot projects.• Coordinated collaborators in grant writing process for NIMH and SAMHSA proposals.• Coordinated and facilitated planning meetings, training events and project budget and timelines.