Keith L. Morris, JD, MPA

Results-oriented nonprofit executive with demonstrated record of accomplishment in streamlining operations, increasing profits and maximizing market penetration. Decisive leader promoting operational improvements, market expansion and positive corporate culture as keys to success.

• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Senior Advisory Committee Member
• Michigan Poverty Law Program's Advisory Group
• Justice Initiatives of the State Bar of Michigan
• Sixty-Plus Elderlaw Clinic, WMU, Board of Directors
• Southeast Michigan Senior Regional Collaborative
• Michigan Dementia Coalition
• Healthcare Workforce Initiative
• Michigan Attorney General's Elder Abuse Taskforce
• National Association of Senior Legal Hotlines
• Lansing Area AIDS Network Board of Directors

Projects researched and designed to address identified needs. These projects focused on building capacity of community organizations, increasing knowledge of barriers to service, improving equity of access to services, and creating strategic nontraditional partnerships. Many of these have been supported and implemented. These are just a few examples:

• Closed portal website where trained staff at community organizations can access information on all benefits and services available to older adult in Michigan. Website would have links to all resources, screening tools, brochures, way to refer client for assistance, live chat for questions, and reporting on outcomes of case assistance.
• Coordinated questionnaire that, after determining which benefits and services to apply for, combines questions for all required applications and removes duplicate questions. After generated questions are answered, all applications needed will be generated and filled out. Most applications will be electronically submitted.
• In two minority communities, local advisory groups with businesses, service providers, and government officials to address older adult food insecurity by soliciting ideas from group members and providing members with material to distribute to older adults, passively or actively.
• Coordinate outreach efforts among numerous senior service providers in same service area to have one flier, one phone number, one message that connects older adults to all of services potentially available.
• Conduct a LEAN Agile process evaluation on application process used by staff to assist older adults to determine why half of the clients did not complete the process.
• Build stronger partnerships between healthcare providers and community-service providers that allows for trust that older adults have in doctors as basis to educate, motivate, and connect older adults with needed services.
• Build more user-accepted and integrated system to facilitate referrals and coordination between healthcare, community-service providers, government agencies, and caregivers.