NORTH TEXAS VETERANS FUNDERS COLLABORATIVE Welcomes you to the NORTH TEXAS VETERANS NEEDS ASSESSMENT BRIEFING AND PANEL DISCUSSION
NORTH TEXAS VETERANS NEEDS ASSESSMENT BRIEFING AND PANEL DISCUSSION PROGRAM MARCH 29, 2016 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS, MABEL PETERS CARUTH CENTER BACKGROUND In 2014, the King Foundation s board decided to focus its North Texas giving, in part, on veterans issues. The Foundation gathered a small group of other North Texas foundations with a shared interest in serving veterans to begin learning about local needs and resources. The group has been calling itself the North Texas Veterans Funders Collaborative (the Collaborative), although there is no formalized organization. There are ten funding organizations currently participating in the Collaborative: Communities Foundation of Texas, The Dallas Foundation, The Hersh Foundation, The Hoglund Foundation, Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation, The Meadows Foundation, The Miles Foundation, The Rees- Jones Foundation, The Mike and Mary Terry Family Foundation, and the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. WELCOME GOALS BRIEFING BRENT CHRISTOPHER PRESIDENT AND CEO COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS MICHELLE MONSE PRESIDENT CARL B. & FLORENCE E. KING FOUNDATION PHILLIP CARTER SENIOR FELLOW, COUNSEL AND DIRECTOR OF THE MILITARY, VETERANS, AND SOCIETY PROGRAM CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT In early 2015, the Collaborative decided to commission an independent needs assessment covering veterans of all eras in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Statistical Area (DFW MSA), which includes 13 counties, many of them rural. PANEL DISCUSSION MODERATOR BOB RAY SANDERS FORMER ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND SENIOR COLUMNIST FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM The Collaborative chose the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) to perform the assessment. The principal investigator at CNAS is Phillip Carter, Senior Fellow, Counsel and Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program. His co-researcher is Katherine Kidder, a Bacevich Fellow at CNAS. PANELISTS JOHN BURRUSS, MD CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER METROCARE SERVICES The CNAS Military, Veterans, and Society Program includes research addressing this community, including but not limited to military personnel issues, veterans and military health care, transformative technologies and approaches for serving veterans and military personnel, and building a national strategy to support the veterans and military community. The assessment was underwritten by The Hawn Foundation, The Hoglund Foundation, the King Foundation Initiatives Fund of The Dallas Foundation, The Meadows Foundation, the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, and the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas. SHEILA HOLBROOK-WHITE RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR MHMR OF TARRANT COUNTY DOMINGO RODRIGUEZ PREPAREDNESS, HEALTH AND SAFETY SERVICES INSTRUCTOR AMERICAN RED CROSS BOARD MEMBER VETERANS COALITION OF TARRANT COUNTY QUESTIONS & ANSWERS PANEL AND AUDIENCE CLOSING REMARKS MICHELLE MONSE
VETCONNECT NORTH TEXAS Searching for nonprofit resources online can be overwhelming. VetConnectNTX will make that task easier for veterans, military families, and social work professionals. The resource directory on the site will contain an easily searchable directory of nonprofit and government programs serving veterans that have been reviewed and approved by volunteer teams. The teams will include professional grantmakers, veterans, military family members, and community volunteers. Our goal is to provide an easy to use and reliable source of trusted information and resources. We invite you to visit www.vetconnectntx.org today and be connected! Learn how to apply to have your organization listed in the VetConnectNTX online directory. Sign up to receive updates from North Texas Veterans Funders Collaborative and VetConnectNTX. Download the Assessment Report and PowerPoint presentation. Follow VetConnectNTX on social media. VetConnectNTX is a project of the North Texas Veterans Funders Collaborative c/o Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation; 2301 Cedar Springs Rd., Suite 330; Dallas, TX 75201 For more information on how you or your organization can be involved with VetConnectNTX, contact Steven Braudt at projectmanager@vetconnectntx.org www.vetconnectntx.org
NORTH TEXAS VETERANS NEEDS ASSESSMENT BRIEFING AND PANEL DISCUSSION BIOGRAPHIES PHILLIP CARTER SENIOR FELLOW, COUNSEL AND DIRECTOR OF THE MILITARY, VETERANS, AND SOCIETY PROGRAM CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY Phillip Carter began his career as an Army officer, serving for several years in the active and reserve components. He deployed to Iraq in 2005-06, where he served as an embedded adviser with the Iraqi police in the Diyala province, and worked closely with the State Department s Provincial Reconstruction Team. After coming home, Carter became increasingly involved in veterans and national security policy issues. In addition to his military and government experience, Carter has worked in the private sector as an attorney and business leader. He previously practiced law with a major international law firm, where his work focused on government contracts, export controls, and national security law. Carter authored briefs in the landmark national security cases Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (relating to military commissions at Guantanamo Bay), FAIR vs. Rumsfeld (relating to military recruiting on university campuses) and Al- Aulaqi v. Obama (a challenge to U.S. targeting of al Qaeda personnel in Yemen). Carter currently teaches as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for National Security Law & Policy, and the veterans advisory council for the Jericho Project. He continues to write extensively on legal and national security issues, with recent work appearing in The Washington Post, Slate, Foreign Policy, and other publications, also comments on national security issues as @Carter_PE on Twitter. A native of Southern California, Carter attended college and law school at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). BOB RAY SANDERS FORMER ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND SENIOR COLUMNIST FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM Bob Ray Sanders journalism career spanned more than four decades and three media: newspaper, television and radio. In 2015 he retired from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the newspaper where he began his professional career. As a young journalist with the paper, he served as courthouse reporter and political writer before embarking on a distinguished career in broadcasting. Sanders later returned to the newspaper as a columnist, and also was appointed associate editor, vice president and a member of the Editorial Board. A 1969 graduate of North Texas State University, Sanders is past president of the Press Club of Fort Worth. He is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Dallas/Fort Worth Association of Black Journalists. He currently serves on the advisory boards of AIDS Outreach Center in Fort Worth and Goodwill Industries. Sanders has received some of journalism s most prestigious awards, among them: five awards from the Houston, New York and Chicago film festivals; five Dallas Press Club KATIE Awards; three Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards; a regional Emmy Award; a National Association of Black Journalists award for Best TV Sports Feature; and a National Headliner Award for outstanding investigative reporting.
NORTH TEXAS VETERANS NEEDS ASSESSMENT BRIEFING AND PANEL DISCUSSION BIOGRAPHIES JOHN W. BURRUSS, MD CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER METROCARE SERVICES Dr. John Burruss is the Chief Executive Officer of Metrocare Services in Dallas, the public Mental Health/Intellectual & Developmental Disability Agency for Dallas County and one of the largest providers of public mental health services in Texas. The agency serves more than 50,000 unduplicated patients each year with a staff of almost 1,300 employees and an annual budget of more than $100 million. Before joining Metrocare, Dr. Burruss was Executive Medical Director for Affiliates at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In this role, he managed the Affiliated Medical Services of Baylor and the University of Texas Health Science Center (AMS), the largest physician practice in the State of Texas. Throughout this time, Dr. Burruss was a practicing psychiatrist on the medical staff at Ben Taub Hospital where he was Chief of Psychiatry from 2002 to 2008. Dr. Burruss earned his MD and completed a psychiatric residency at Baylor College of Medicine after receiving his BA in Biochemistry from The University of Texas at Austin. He has also trained at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry at both Baylor and UT Southwestern, and is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the American College of Psychiatrists. His research efforts in psychiatry and public mental health include three years of work with the University of Texas Mental Health Policy Collaborative. SHEILA HOLBROOK-WHITE RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR MHMR TARRANT Shelia Holbrook-White currently serves as Resource Development Director at MHMR Tarrant. In this role, Holbrook-White manages MyRIDE-Tarrant, a mobility management initiative that supports transportation options for persons with disabilities. Holbrook-White s work at MHMR Tarrant continues her focus on increasing the quality and quantity of mobility options for persons with disabilities, older adults, veterans, and/or low-income individuals as they seek to engage in their communities, particularly where prospects for transportation and employment are limited. Holbrook-White has published and presented nationally on the development of pedestrian-friendly communities by actively engaging older adults and persons with disabilities and the use of social media as a tool for public policy engagement among Millennials. Holbrook-White has been recognized by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for best practices in public engagement. Holbrook-White completed her undergraduate work at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland with honors. She completed graduate coursework at the University of Alabama in Sociology and Social Work. DOMINGO RODRIGUEZ PREPAREDNESS, HEALTH AND SAFETY SERVICES INSTRUCTOR, AMERICAN RED CROSS BOARD MEMBER, VETERANS COALITION OF TARRANT COUNTY Domingo Rodriguez is a Preparedness, Health and Safety Services Instructor (PHSS) with the American Red Cross and past fellow at The Mission Continues. He has served on many disaster and humanitarian relief efforts. His military experience is being retired from the Navy after 20 years of service which included tours in Afghanistan. Rodriguez graduated from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences in Emergency Management.