Amy Mcilvaine is the Project Director for the Los Angeles
County’s Substance Use Disorder Organized Delivery System
project. Amy has nearly 25 years of leadership and management
experience. Her primary areas of expertise include innovation
design, change management, process improvement, and business
operations. She is passionate about mentoring and training
behavioral health teams to become innovative change leaders who
are resilient, lead effective change teams and implement changes
that result in improvements.
Prior to working for CIBHS Amy was the Director of Training and
Education for NIATx (Network for the Improvement of Addiction
Treatment) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Amy developed
the nationally renowned NIATx Change Leader Academy designed to
teach behavioral healthcare professionals how to lead teams
through successful change in today’s turbulent behavioral health
landscape. She has trained and mentored over 1,000 change leaders
working in health and human services throughout the United
States. In addition to teaching change management, Amy was
a project manager on several SAMHSA projects in the following
areas: Integration with Primary Care, Leadership Development
Skills, Process Improvement, Improving Your Third-party Billing
Systems, Innovation and Design, and Business Operations.
Amy has consulted and trained in and with local, state and
national regulatory agencies, managed care organizations, as well
as healthcare providers around the country.
Mathew Roosa
Mathew Roosa, ACSW, LCSW-R is a consultant, trainer, and coach,
providing organizational and systems level support for program
development, quality improvement, and strategic planning in
behavioral and healthcare environments. He is also Director of
Planning and Quality Improvement for the Onondaga County
Department of Adult and Long-Term Services, providing support to
mental health, substance use, Corrections, Ageing, and other
service systems. Mr. Roosa is the former Clinical Director of
Central New York Services, a Non-Profit Agency providing
residential, forensic, and treatment services, and specializing
in services for people with co-occurring chemical dependency and
mental illness. Formerly Mr. Roosa was the Clinical Director of
Family Services Associates, providing outpatient family therapy
and chemical dependency services. Mr. Roosa’s experiences also
include the maintenance of a private psychotherapy practice and
teaching as an adjunct faculty member of the Human Services
Department at Cazenovia College and the Syracuse University
Social Work Program.
Howard Padwa, PhD
Howard Padwa, Ph.D., is a research associate at the California
Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions. Dr. Padwa’s primary
areas of expertise are behavioral health systems transformation
and implementation science. In particular, he is interested in
bridging gaps between behavioral health policy and practice, and
ensuring that policy innovations help improve the lives of
individuals living with mental health and substance use
disorders. Dr. Padwa began his career in behavioral health as a
researcher studying the implementation of the recovery model
under the California Mental Health Services Act, and he
transitioned to positions where he evaluated various behavioral
health-primary care integration initiatives. Prior to working at
CIBHS, Dr. Padwa worked in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry,
where he led projects evaluating substance use disorder treatment
systems, and provided training on substance use and behavioral
health interventions for policymakers, program managers, and
service providers across the country.
Denna Vandersloot
Denna Vandersloot is the co-director of the Northwest Addiction
Technology Transfer located at the University of Washington. Ms.
Vandersloot draws on 25 years of experience as a clinician,
researcher, trainer, and consultant in the behavioral health
field to assist individuals and organizations to improve their
clinical and organizational practices and processes. She provides
training and technical assistance in evidence-based practice
adoption and implementation in a variety of behavioral health
interventions and organizational change practices including
process improvement, motivational interviewing, SBIRT,
recovery-oriented systems of care, and integration of health
services. Her passion is coaching individuals and organizations
to achieve their full potential and provide exceptional care to
patients.
Charlotte Bullen, MSHCA
Charlotte Bullen, MSHCA, joined CIBHS in October 2018 as Senior
Project Coordinator for the Los Angeles County’s Substance Use
Disorder Organized Delivery System Project.
Charlotte received both her Bachelor of Science and Master of
Science in Health Care Administration from California State
University, Long Beach. She has over 7 years of experience in
project and training coordination. Prior to joining CIBHS,
Charlotte served as Training Coordinator for UCLA Integrated
Substance Abuse Programs (UCLA-ISAP) and the Pacific Southwest
Addiction Technology Transfer Center (HHS Region 9). In addition,
she also has experience in the hospital setting, where she served
as a Management Assistant at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. She
assisted with research, patient follow-up surveys, and other
projects related to quality improvement.
