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Carol Wilkins M.P.P.

Carol Wilkins is the Director of Intergovernmental Policy with the Corporation for Supportive Housing, where she works to develop and support the implementation of policy solutions to end long-term homelessness for people who have complex health needs and multiple barriers to employment.  She has more than 25 years of experience in public finance, human services and policy work, including work with the California Legislature’s office of the Legislative Analyst, the State Assembly Ways and Means Committee, as Deputy Mayor of Finance in San Francisco, and as Finance Director for the San Francisco Housing Authority.  She joined CSH in 1994, where she was responsible for planning and directing the implementation of the Health, Housing and Integrated Services Network, an award-winning collaboration of non-profit and local government agencies which integrates the financing and delivery of affordable housing and an array of services to homeless and disabled adults in California.  She is the co-author of “Laying a New Foundation: Changing the Systems that Create and Sustain Supportive Housing,” as well as a series of white papers, “Financing the Support in Supportive Housing: Challenges and Opportunities in the Medicaid Program,” published by CSH.  She was also co-author of the chapter “Making Homeless Programs Accountable to Consumers, Funders and the Public”, presented at the 1998 National Symposium on Homelessness Research and published by HUD and HHS.  She has been a member of the faculty for a series of Policy Academies for state and local policymakers, convened by HUD, HHS, the VA, and DOL, to improve access to mainstream services for people experiencing chronic homelessness and for homeless families with children.  She was a member of the expert panel convened in February 2000 by the US General Accounting Office on homelessness and barriers to using mainstream programs.  She has been invited to deliver presentations and technical assistance to national and regional groups in more than 20 states to facilitate systems change and to increase the capacity of state and local governments and non-profit agencies to create integrated systems to expand supportive housing opportunities for people with disabilities and those who are homeless. 

Carol Wilkins M.P.P.
Corporation for Supportive Housing
1330 Broadway, Suite 601
Oakland, California 94612
Website:  www.csh.org