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Health & Human Services Steering Committee
Updated Feb. 20, 2012
Chair
- Ken Richardson, Alleghany County Chairman of the Board
NCACC Staff
- Rebecca Troutman, Intergovernmental Relations Director
Members and Intergovernmental Partners
- Lee Kyle Allen, Craven County Chairman of the Board
- Ronnie Beale, Macon County Commissioner
- Fred Belfield, Nash County Vice Chair
- Brian Berger, New Hanover County Commissioner
- Gary L. Blevins, Wilkes County Commissioner
- Sherry Bradsher, N.C. DHHS - Division of Social Services
- Tony Braswell, Johnston County Commissioner
- Tony Brown, Halifax County Manager
- Lanier Cansler, N.C. DHHS Secretary
- Bill Clark, Columbus County Manager
- Yvonne Copeland, N.C. Council of Community Programs Executive Director
- Deborah Craig-Ray, Durham County Assistant Manager
- Johnnie Farmer, Hertford County Commissioner
- Denise Foreman, Wake County Assistant to Manager
- Valerie Foushee, Orange County Commissioner
- Denny Garner, Greene County Commissioner
- Gibbie Harris, Buncombe County Health Director
- Viola Harris, Edgecombe County Commissioner
- Gwen Harvey, Orange County Assistant Manager
- J. Harold Holmes, Randolph County Chairman of the Board
- Ann Holton, Pamlico County Vice Chair
- Edward Jones, Forsyth County Deputy Manager
- Steve Keen, Wayne County Commissioner
- Tom Keigher, Gaston County Commissioner
- William Keller, Onslow County Commissioner
- Jane Kimsey, Macon County Social Services Director
- Kevin King, Swain County Manager
- Jessie Ladson, Duplin County Vice Chair
- Michelle Lancaster-Sandlin, Mecklenburg County General Manager
- Vilma Leake, Mecklenburg County Commissioner
- Beth Lovette, Appalachian District Health Department Health Director
- Tom Lundy, Catawba County Manager
- Carol McCall, Scotland County Commissioner
- Melvin McLawhorn, Pitt County Commissioner
- Chris Measmer, Cabarrus County Commissioner
- David Monteith, Swain County Commissioner
- Erica Nelson, N.C. Council of Community Programs
- Michael Page, Durham County Chairman of the Board
- Amanda Parks, N.C. DHHS
- Nicki Perry, Franklin County Social Services Director
- Charles Peterson, Bladen County Chairman of the Board
- Sharnese Ransome, N.C. DHHS Director of Governmental & Community Relations
- Jerry Rhodes, Washington County Social Services Director
- Ramon Rojano, MPH, MFT, Wake County Human Services Director
- Hubert Sealey, Robeson County Commissioner
- Beth Smerko, Wake County Deputy Attorney
- Judy Snyder, Wilkes County Clerk to the Board
- Maria Spaulding, N.C. DHHS Deputy Secretary
- Sharon Spencer, Hyde County Chairman of the Board
- Mandy Stone, Buncombe County Assistant Manager/DSS Director
- Hugh Tilson, N.C. Hospital Association Senior Vice President
- Lynette Tolson, N.C. Association of Local Health Directors Executive Director
- Clayton Voignier, Mecklenburg County DSS Director for Business Affairs
- Sue Weimar, Perquimans County Commissioner
Recent reports
Tax modernization on legislators' radar (February 2012)
Five steering committees hold meetings during January
Cabarrus hosts six steering committee meetings (September 2011)
Six of the NCACC's seven steering committees held meetings on Aug. 18 during the Annual Conference in Cabarrus County.
State leaders push waiver expansion for LMEs (June 2011)
The Health and Human Services Steering Committee welcomed Rep. Jeff Barnhart, a vice chair of the House's Health and Human Services Committee, and Lanier Cansler,
secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, to its May 19 meeting to discuss county consideration of the expansion of the capitated model for community mental health.
State may study consolidation of county DSS admin functions (June 2010)
The Human Services Steering Committee met May 13 and discussed a special provision in the 2009-10 state budget that directs the General Assembly's Program Evaluation Division (PED) to study the consolidation of administrative functions in county departments of social services.
Materials for May 13, 2010, meeting: Handouts | PowerPoints | Effective Lobbying (PPT)
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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