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Introducing
Anthony Love
USICH
Deputy Director, National
Programs
Anthony
Love, a Texas native, most recently
served as President and CEO of the Coalition for
the Homeless of Houston/Harris County, the
principal agency for the Homeless Continuum of
Care for a county of almost four million
people.
Love first
began work on poverty and homelessness issues more
than 15 years ago following the completion of his
Master of Arts in Public Administration from the
University of Missouri-Kansas City. After
returning to Houston, his experience with
vulnerable populations including at-risk youth and
women graduating from welfare led to his being
named Site Director of the not-for-profit U.S.
Veteran's Initiative. During his leadership there,
US Vet's Houston became the largest provider of
housing and support services to homeless veterans
in Texas providing services to more than 20,000
homeless veterans. "I saw first-hand how programs
and services can make a real difference in the
lives of homeless veterans," Anthony
says.
Love is most
looking forward to the coordination aspect of his
new job and states, "I have always believed that
so much more can be accomplished when you're able
to bring together the key stakeholders. In my new
position I will have the opportunity to bring
together all entities-federal, state and local.
While homelessness has the biggest impact locally,
great local strides cannot be made without help
from state and federal
resources." He believes that the
biggest challenge in ending homelessness is "in
getting agreement on goals."
Anthony
earned his Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast
Journalism from Texas State University and enjoys
reading, exercising and watching
sports. |
USICH
welcomes Jennifer Ho as
its
Deputy
Director, Accountability
Management
Jennifer
comes to the USICH from her most recent work as
Executive Director of the Hearth Connection,
which manages a network of supportive housing
providers helping people with long histories of
homelessness find stability, recovery and
prosperity. Since 2001, over 2,000 people
have benefited from Hearth Connection's work,
including 380 families with over 750
children. Their programs also target single
adults and unaccompanied youth. Prior to
joining the Hearth Connection in 1999, Jennifer
was VP of product development in United Health
Group's AARP division and managed government
programs at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of
Minnesota. She holds a bachelor's degree in
philosophy from Bryn Mawr College and is a Board
Member of the Corporation for Supportive
Housing.
Jennifer's work with USICH will
involve serving as the lead on the Federal
Strategic Plan, aggregating and promoting research
and evaluation of homelessness programs, policies,
strategies at every level, and managing the
results and accountability of this research and
evaluations. Jennifer sees her future work
with USICH as an opportunity to take what she's
learned in Minnesota "to the next level to address
homelessness across the Country."
Ho believes that "when
people are given a choice of a home, they take
it." There are skeptics, she says, who
believe "there will always be the homeless."
That may or may not be true, but in any
event, "let's help 95% of them, if we
can." "The important thing is that
we've learned so much and how, in a small way, we
can make a big difference."
When not working,
Jennifer enjoys cooking, to include enjoying her
own cuisine, and
golfing. |
Meet Sharon Price
USICH Deputy Director,
Policy
Sharon Price is most
excited about pulling together all of
the stakeholders involved in the issue
of homelessness who "care about the same issues,
but sometimes speak different languages."
Her work as the Deputy Director of Policy for
USICH will use her expertise gained while working
at the Office of Management Budget and
on the Hill with advocacy groups to do so.
Most recently Sharon as the Director of Policy at
the National Housing Conference. Earlier in
her career, she also worked on the financial side
of housing as a Presidential Management Fellow
with the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
Sharon became acutely
aware of just how serious the issue of
homelessness in the U.S. was while growing up in
New York City, where she saw firsthand such
disparity between the wealthy and the city's
poorest populations, all in the same place.
She got involved early on as a child by
volunteering and later doing work on employment
and training for homeless adults. Price
believes that "everybody deserves a safe place to
live."
Her prior advocacy group
and federal policy work gives her a
foundation for her work at USICH where she
will manage the agency's relationships with
its federal and congressional partners, as
well its relationships with other stakeholder
groups, including advocates working on
homelessness issues.
Price believes that one
of the biggest challenges in work on homelessness
is changing people's belief that we can end
homelessness, but her inspiration to continue her
work on this issue comes from people who have
dedicated their lives and careers to ending
homelessness for the millions affected by
it.
Sharon earned a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Sociology from Bowdoin
College, a Master of Public Policy and Master
of Social Work from the University of Michigan,
and enjoys
painting, yoga and her dog, Rosie, an Assyrian
Firehound, in her spare
time. |
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. . . to coordinate the federal response to
homelessness and to create a national partnership
at every level of government and with the private
sector to reduce and end homelessness in the
nation while maximizing the effectiveness of the
Federal Government in contributing to the end of
homelessness.
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