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Human Services Steering Committee
Updated March 10, 2010
Chair
- Viola Harris, Edgecombe County Commissioner
NCACC Staff
- Rebecca Troutman, Intergovernmental Relations Director
Members and Intergovernmental Partners
- Lee Kyle Allen, Craven County Commissioner
- Ronnie Beale, Macon County Chairman of the Board
- Fred Belfield, Nash County Commissioner
- Wayne Black, Surry County Social Services Director
- Sarah Bradshaw, Sampson County Social Services Director
- Lindy Brown, Wake County Commissioner
- Tony Brown, Halifax County Manager
- Lanier Cansler, N.C. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary
- Yvonne Copeland, N.C. Council of Community Programs Executive Director
- Jeannette Council, Cumberland County Commissioner
- Deborah Craig-Ray, Durham County Assistant Manager
- Jessie Eubanks, Jones County Commissioner
- Johnnie Farmer, Hertford County Chairman of the Board
- Denny Garner, Greene County Chairman of the Board
- Nicki Griffin, Franklin County Social Services Director
- Gibbie Harris, Buncombe County Health Director
- Gwen Harvey, Orange County Assistant Manager
- J. Harold Holmes, Randolph County Chairman of the Board
- Dana Jones, Cherokee County Commissioner
- Jane Kimsey, Macon County Social Services Director
- Michelle Lancaster-Sandlin, Mecklenburg County General Manager
- Tom Lundy, Catawba County Manager
- Melvin McLawhorn, Pitt County Commissioner
- Lionell Midgett, Onslow County Commissioner
- Cindy Morgan, Moore County Vice Chair
- Michael Page, Durham County Chairman of the Board
- Charles Peterson, Bladen County Commissioner
- Sharnese Ransome, N.C. Department of Health & Human Services Director of Governmental & Community Relations
- Ken Richardson, Alleghany County Chairman of the Board
- Ramon Rojano, MPH, MFT, Wake County Human Services Director
- Maria Spaulding, N.C. Department of Health & Human Services Deputy Secretary
- Danny Staley, Appalachian District Health Department Health Department Director
- Hugh Tilson, N.C. Hospital Association Senior Vice President
- Lynette Tolson, N.C. Association of Local Health Directors Executive Director
- Tracy Turner, N.C. Association of County Directors of Social Services Executive Director
- Clayton Voignier, Mecklenburg County DSS Deputy Director for Business Affairs
- Sue Weimar, Perquimans County Commissioner
- Candice White, Cumberland County Deputy Clerk
- Shemeaiah Wilson, N.C. Department of Health & Human Services
Recent reports
Task force to look at public health funding streams, standards (March 2010)
At the NCACC Human Services Steering Committee's Feb. 11 meeting, committee members learned first-hand what the General Assembly had in mind when it approved a state budget special provision that directed formation of a Public Health Improvement Plan and Task Force.
Minutes of Nov. 19, 2009 meeting
State mental health cuts trickling down to locals (December 2009)
It came as no surprise that the Nov. 19 meeting of the NCACC Human Services Steering Committee largely centered on mental health reform and the state's efforts to right a derailed system.
With RACE-ER, N.C. a leader in heart attack care (April 2009)
The RACE-ER (Reperfusion of Acute Myocardial Infarction in North Carolina Emergency Departments-Emergency Response) project is a statewide system for providing rapid coronary artery reperfusion (restoring blood flow to the heart) for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
State will soon show its wrinkles (February 2008)
Age is catching up with North Carolina. While population projections may have county officials scratching their heads and wondering how to alleviate the coming crush on already taxed school facilities, the quiet storm on the horizon involves an age group that has no need for public education facilities. By 2030, a full three-fourths of the state’s 100 counties are expected to be inhabited by more people age 60 and older than 17 and younger.
LME consolidation getting ‘a hard look’
(November 2007)
The Department of Health and Human Services will be “proactively moving” toward consolidation of Local Management Entities’ business services, such as administrative and information technology functions, in an effort to make the provision of mental health services more stable and sustainable for the state, according to the department’s new secretary. Dempsey Benton, who was appointed DHHS secretary by Gov. Mike Easley in September, and Rep. Verla Insko addressed the delivery of mental health services during a Nov. 9 meeting of the NCACC Human Services Steering Committee.
County jails not fit for mentally ill (March 2007)
Chronic overcrowding isn’t the only problem facing North Carolina’s county jails. Sheriffs are experiencing part of a growing national trend – an increasing number of prisoners in county jails who suffer from mental illness.
A healthy discussion on bird flu (August 2006)
If a flu pandemic struck the United States in 2007, would your county be prepared to deal with its share of the 1.4 million Tar Heel residents who seek hospital treatment? How about a 25 percent reduction in workforce for a six- to eight-week period? As the number of confirmed cases worldwide of a deadly subtype of avian influenza (bird flu) rises each year, federal and state governments have taken steps to ensure any outbreak of the flu causes minimal disruption. During the NCACC Human Resources Steering Committee’s July 21 “mini-health summit,” state health officials addressed preparations for a potential flu pandemic.
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