The Alvin Galloway Show (TAGS), from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on radiophoenix.org, TAGS guests are Lynn Johnson, Health and Human Services'
assistant secretary Administration for Children and Families, and Clarence H. Carter HHS's Director of the Office of Family Assistance and the Acting Director of the Office of Community Services at HHS’ Administration for Children and Families.
Join us as we discuss their responsibilities and how it affects children and families. The interview was happened during the mid-February Fathers and Families Coalition of America's annual four-day conference in Los Angeles, in which Sect. Johnson was presented the Hon. John S. Martinez National Leadership award, which is named after the late Connecticut state representative and former FFCA board member.
Asst. Secretary Lynn Johnson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 28, 2018.
Before joining the Trump administration, Mrs. Johnson served as the executive director of Jefferson County Human Services in Colorado, overseeing the county’s Head Start program, as well as programs on the workforce, career and family services, child welfare, justice services and community assistance.
Prior to this position, Mrs. Johnson ran her own consulting firm, which dealt with mental health, high risk youth, developmental disabilities, child welfare and early childhood education.
She was the chief of staff to Colorado Lt. Gov. Jane E. Norton in 2003, and from 1999 to 2002 was a policy advisor to Colorado Governor Bill Owens. Before joining the Owens administration, Mrs. Johnson served as a senior specialist with the United States Courts as a probation and parole officer. She was responsible for direct supervision of offenders with mental health problems and offenders convicted of sex offenses.
Mrs. Johnson has a bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation from the University of Northern Colorado and a master’s degree in social work from Arizona State University. She is a graduate of the Federal Judicial Center National Leadership Development Program and Harvard Executive Education for State and Local Governments. Mrs. Johnson has been happily married for 32 years and is the mother of three adult children.
Director Carter comes from the Institute for the Improvement of the Human Condition, which he founded. At that organization, he worked with state and local safety net agencies to meet the emergency needs of socially and economically vulnerable citizens.
Carter served as the Director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, in addition to other state, federal and local human services management positions.
During his service in the Bush Administration, he managed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and served as the Director of the Office of Community Services. As Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Social Services, his program was instrumental in growing the capacity of its citizens. In his first five years, more than 25,000 public assistance recipients obtained gainful employment, earning in excess of $200 million. During his tenure, Virginia’s public assistance rolls were reduced by more than half, from an all-time high of 74,000 families to a 30-year low of 31,000.
On the local level, while serving as the Director of the Washington, D.C., Department of Human Services, Carter led the design and operation of an initiative to house more than 1,000 homeless residents. It was this effort that transformed the District’s shelter-based homeless system to one based in permanent supportive housing as the primary mechanism to reduce homelessness.
Both Sect. Johnson and Director Carter have ties to Arizona.
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