Carlos Hardy
Baltimore,Maryland
Summary
Forward-thinking Operations Specialist bringing 32 years of expertise in in all aspects related to policy/advocacy, treatment and recovery services in Baltimore City. Cultivates rapport with individuals to optimize project goals and output, resolve complex problems and deliver innovative improvement strategies. Proficient in most Microsoft applications.
Overview
31
31
years of professional experience
Work History
Public Health/Public Policy Consultant
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
07.2022 - Current
- Work in collaboration with members of JHSPH- Bloomberg Opioid Prevention Team (BOPI)
- Conduct research, topic matter dissemination, public presentations, community/stakeholder outreach and engagement
- Serve as "lived-experience" subject matter expert on behavioral health issues related to community-based treatment, recovery support services and treatment within carceral settings.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Maryland Recovery Organization Connecting Communities
02.2013 - Current
- Responsible for management and oversight of all aspects related to organization's fiscal sustainability and stakeholder/funder accountability and includes responsibility for meeting and/or exceeding all grant reporting requirements.
- Responsible for establishing, sustaining, and advancing M-ROCC presence and position as a key partner and ally among local, state, and federal stakeholders and key decision makers.
- Principle author and manager of M-ROCC's 2013 grant award received from Maryland Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration to establish a statewide Recovery Housing Association (RFA) membership association (Solicitation No: DHMH OPASS - 13-10913 Revised) - Grant sunset June 2016
- Created Maryland State Association for Recovery Residences (M-SARR) membership association.
- Provided management, oversight, and technical assistance to MSARR members, consisting of eighty-nine (89) recovery residence programs, operating in seventeen of Maryland's twenty-four jurisdictions.
- Supervised staff of five, "care coordinators" including licensed social worker, licensed substance use disorder clinician, and three peer specialists.
Program Director
Dee's Place - Wellness and Recovery Center
02.2021 - 06.2022
- In collaboration with the Executive Director, develop an on-going program sustainability plan for Dee's Place Wellness and Recovery Center.
- Assume lead role in drafting, editing and submission of federal, state, and local grant proposals in support of maintaining and expanding program operations and services.
- Assure timely submission of all grants related management/data collection reports.
- Supervise a staff of five (5) persons, including one (1) Certified Peer Recovery Coach Supervisor (CPRS) and four (4) Peer Recovery Specialists.
- Recruit external partners to serve on an Administrative Oversight Committee that will focus on supporting and expanding Dee's Place initiatives.
- Work collaboratively with existing program partners to build a comprehensive, community-based initiative that successfully integrates harm reduction, behavioral health, and recovery support services under one roof.
- Build strong working relationships with local foundations and other Baltimore City providers that will attract, and share needed resources and services.
Consultant
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence - Maryland Chapter
05.2018 - 02.2021
- Operate as primary point of contact between NCADD-MD and local Addiction Authority's (LAA), Local Health Departments and Local Core Service Agencies (CSA) or Behavioral Health Authority (BHA) operating in Maryland's twenty-three (23) jurisdictions and Baltimore City.
- Provide NCADD-MD constituents and stakeholders throughout the State with knowledge, information, and tools to effectively impact public policies and public understanding of the disease of addiction, strategies, and practices to address addiction as well as prevention and recovery support strategies.
- Actively engage NCADD-MD constituents and stakeholders in educational activities and recovery forums.
- Responsible for collecting feedback from members of the recovery community regarding access to treatment, relapse prevention, health care reform and recovery support services.
State Care Coordination Peer Recovery Services Vendor (Contractor)
Maryland Behavioral Health Administration
02.2013 - 06.2015
- Responsible for management and oversight of deliverables required of M-ROCC "State- Designated" Care Coordination vendor under BHA's Maryland Recovery Net (MDRN) Housing and recovery services program.
- Responsible for supervising M-ROCC care coordination staff, consisting of licensed graduate social worker, certified addictions counselor and three state Certified Peer Recovery Specialists (CPRS).
- Care Coordination and Recovery Support Services provided to over 350 men and women, many who were residents in Maryland State Association of Recovery Residences (M-SARR) recovery residences located in nineteen (19) of Maryland's twenty-four (24) jurisdictions.
- Responsible for entering all state-required member and services delivered data into the Value Options/Beacon Health online data collection/data reporting system.
- Responsible for submitting all billing data and tracking payments received by M-ROCC.
- Design and implement strategies intended to address, promote and advocate around policies and regulations intended to delimit the impact stigma and discrimination that often serves to impede or inhibit a member's recovery experience, and in turn, often results in promulgating a negative public perception on the issue of addiction and those with a history of substance use disorder.
Contractor
Optum Behavioral Health
12.2013 - 12.2015
- As Chief Executive Officer for Maryland Recovery Organization Connecting Communities (M-ROCC) completed Optum Behavioral Health Vendor Application Process resulting in M-ROCC documentation, receiving its designation as a paneled Optum Behavioral Health vendor.
- M-ROCC staff coordinated with Optum nurse, assigned to our company, on receiving and assessing Optum referrals (clients) often referred to, by Optum, as high utilizers.
- Responsible for providing Optum referrals with a wide range of care coordination and recovery support services, predicated on the number of service hours Optum allotted each client.
Director of Public Affairs and Legislative Outreach
Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems Incorporated
03.2009 - 02.2013
- Serve as primary public spokesperson and point of contact for BSAS, Baltimore City's publicly-funded treatment system.
- Serve as principal liaison between BSAS leadership and State and Local governmental agencies including Executive and Legislative Branches of Maryland State government, Office of the Mayor, and Baltimore City Council.
- Responsible for sustaining and enhancing effective collaborations, relationships and partnerships with multiple state and local stakeholder groups and agencies including criminal justice, housing, mental health, and other health care organizations.
- Responsible for tracking legislation during annual legislative session, and to prepare and submit written testimony, or submit oral testimony when requested to do so by the agency's president or board of directors.
- Identify and generate opportunities to foster and expand community, stakeholder, and key decision maker support for BSAS' mission.
- Respond to inquiries or requests for meetings or information received from members of the local, state, national and international media.
- Responsible for design and implementation of BSAS' highly successful "Treatment Is Available Now… Why Wait to Get Clean" public education and community outreach campaign.
- Served as principal designer and agency lead in the development, staff recruitment and launching of the Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems Incorporated (BSAS) successful "Baltimore Recovery Corps" (BRC) Recovery Coach training program. The BRC was responsible for training and placement of well over 250 peer recovery specialists.
Executive Director
Maryland Chapter - National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
02.2007 - 03.2009
- Serve as the primary spokesperson for the organization. In addition to managing the day-to-day tasks and functions of operating a 501C3 non-profit organization, also responsible for achieving the board mandated goals and objectives detailed in the organization's five-year strategic plan.
- Duties and responsibilities included preparing organization's annual budget, effectively managing NCADD-MD financial resources and assets, and fundraising activities.
- Responsible for identifying and securing additional revenue sources to sustain and expand the organization's core function focusing on public policy and advocacy in support expanding substance abuse prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery in Maryland.
- Advocate for increased funding and systemic changes, across multiple systems and within Maryland's managed care system, which serve to promote expansion of prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery support services and systems.
- Work with NCADD-MD's legislative affairs consultant, and members of the organization's "Addiction Treatment Advocates Committee (ATAC)" in developing and advancing the organization's annual legislative agenda before the Maryland General Assembly.
Director of Drug Treatment and Community Outreach
Citizen's Planning and Housing Association
05.2002 - 02.2007
- Responsible for planning and coordinating CPHA's outreach and engagement efforts at organizing substance abuse treatment advocacy base through design and implementation of a campaign to increase public and community knowledge, understanding and awareness on substance use disorder/recovery related issues.
- Supervised regional campaign to in scope, campaign to: 1) bring about significant policy changes that mirror initiatives outlined in the CPHA "Campaign for Regional Solutions" Platform. 2) conduct extensive public education campaign to promote an increased knowledge and a positive change in public attitudes about the disease of addiction, towards persons struggling with substance use disorders, and about the role and benefits of the community-based treatment model, 3) Convene public forums, town hall meetings and special events to promote healthy dialogue and improved relationships between treatment programs and their community neighbors.
Director of Community Housing and Program Operations
Light Street Housing Corporation
11.1995 - 05.2002
- Responsible for managing and oversight of fifteen scattered site recovery residences located in Southwest and Northeast Baltimore.
- Responsible for delivery of recovery support services and supports to over one-hundred twenty program residents, consisting of men, women, custodial parents, veterans, and seniors.
- Served as LSHC lead in securing funding, construction and opening of the $1.3 million Carrington House Supportive Housing Program, a twenty-eight bed "single room occupancy recovery residence in West Baltimore.
Education
Master of Science - Human Services
Lincoln University
Lincoln, Pennsylvania05.2006
Timeline
Public Health/Public Policy Consultant
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
07.2022 - Current
Program Director
Dee's Place - Wellness and Recovery Center
02.2021 - 06.2022
Consultant
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence - Maryland Chapter
05.2018 - 02.2021
Contractor
Optum Behavioral Health
12.2013 - 12.2015
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Maryland Recovery Organization Connecting Communities
02.2013 - Current
State Care Coordination Peer Recovery Services Vendor (Contractor)
Maryland Behavioral Health Administration
02.2013 - 06.2015
Director of Public Affairs and Legislative Outreach
Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems Incorporated
03.2009 - 02.2013
Executive Director
Maryland Chapter - National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
02.2007 - 03.2009
Director of Drug Treatment and Community Outreach
Citizen's Planning and Housing Association
05.2002 - 02.2007
Director of Community Housing and Program Operations
Light Street Housing Corporation
11.1995 - 05.2002
Master of Science - Human Services
Lincoln University