DSL INFO MEMO 2002-02
February 22, 2002
STATE OF WISCONSIN
Department of Health and Family Services
Division of Supportive Living
To:
Area Administrators/Assistant Area Administrators
Blue Ribbon Commission Implementation Advisory Committee
County Departments of Human Services Directors
County Departments of Social Services Directors
County Department of Community Program Directors
County Mental Health and AODA Coordinators
CSP Directors and CSP Coordinators
ISP Directors and Coordinators
Mental Health Association of Milwaukee
Mental Health Consumer Organizations
NAMI Wisconsin and Local Chapters
State Council on Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse
Tribal Chairpersons/Human Services Facilitators
Wisconsin Coalition for Advocacy
Wisconsin Council on Mental Health
Wisconsin Family Ties
From:
Sinikka McCabe,
Administrator
Re: Changes at the Bureau of Community Mental Health Leadership
Chris Hendrickson, Director for the Bureau of Community Mental Health
(BCMH), has decided to leave his position at the bureau. During his
three years as the Director of the Bureau of Community Mental Health,
Chris was critical in further implementing the Mental Health/Alcohol and
Other Drug Abuse (MH/AODA) Redesign as outlined by the Blue Ribbon
Commission on Mental Health and in strengthening the consumer and family
self help peer support movement. Chris has accepted a temporary
assignment at the Office of Strategic Finance (OSF) working on several
critical issues in relationship with the Department and the counties.
I am pleased to announce that Joyce Allen has accepted the temporary
assignment of serving as the Interim Bureau Director. Her assignment
will become effective full-time on Monday, February 25, 2002.
Joyce has experience in mental health issues. She was the primary
staff for the first Mental Health/Long Term Care Steering Committee.
Prior to joining state service, Joyce was the Deputy Director of the
Milwaukee County Department on Aging. In those years the Milwaukee
County Department on Aging was active in advocating for age appropriate
systems and services for older people with mental illnesses. Joyce was
an active participant with the Blue Ribbon Commission (BRC), serving as
a departmental liaison from the BRC to the Long Term Care Redesign
Initiative. In that capacity she provided support to various BRC
subcommittees. Joyce has assisted the Bureau of Community Mental Health
with the MH/AODA Redesign effort since last fall.
Joyce is an alumnus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a
bachelor’s degree in sociology and a master’s degree in Social Work
Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Joyce’s
twenty-three years of experience in human services began as a counselor
in a residential treatment program for adolescents.
Joyce has been the Assistant Director of the Office of Strategic
Finance for the past year and a half and has been with the Department of
Health and Family Services for a total of eight years. In that time, she
has also served as the Department’s Strategic Planning Director and as
the Project Manager for the Long Term Care Redesign Initiative, which
became Family Care. Joyce also chaired the Department’s Family Care
Advocacy Committee, which included consumers and other stakeholders.
This committee designed the Independent Advocacy component of Family
Care. In her most recent position, Joyce has provided staff leadership
for the Council on Long Term Care and support to the ADA Title II
Advisory Committee. Her various activities and involvement demonstrate a
strong emphasis on better outcomes and advocacy on behalf of persons
with disabilities and older persons in Wisconsin.
On a personal level, Joyce has maintained her interest and commitment
to the field of mental health as she continues to share life’s journey
with a close relative who has a severe mental illness.
Please join me in thanking Chris for his dedicated service at the
Bureau of Community Mental Health and in wishing him success in his new
assignment. And, please join me in welcoming Joyce Allen as the Interim
Bureau Director for BCMH!
CENTRAL OFFICE CONTACT:
Sinikka McCabe, Administrator
Division of Supportive Living
1 W. Wilson St., P.O. Box 7851
Madison, WI 53707-7851
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