Board of Directors
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Steve Protulis
Chair
is a national activist for elderly concerns. He was formerly the Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO and Executive Director of the National Council of Senior Citizens, one of the nation's strongest voices for older Americans and families. Currently, Protulis serves on the boards of the National Council on Aging and the Center for Policy Alternatives, is Vice President of the Americans for Democratic Action, is Secretary of Citizens for Tax Justice, heads the EHDOC organization, and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Caring Magazine. Protulis came to the United States from Uruguay in 1961 to attend Wayne State University, but received his real education on the shop floor of a General Motors plant in Detroit, as a UAW Local 174 member.
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Joseph McGreal, Ph.D., ACSW
Vice Chair
manages programs and grants for service coordination and resident services at nine elderly public housing communities in the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority in Richmond,VA. He also develops federal grants and programs under HUD, HHS, and local foundations. McGreal is a member of three United Way council allocation committees on elderly services, agencies for the homeless, and emergency food and shelter services. He received his Ph.D. in Social Welfare Policy and Management from Case Western Reserve University.
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Rob Hilton
Treasurer
is President and CEO of The A.M. McGregor Group, which comprises the McGregor Foundation and The A.M. McGregor Home. In addition to overseeing grant-making activities, he has oversight and compliance responsibilities for both organizations. Mr. Hilton spent 27 years in banking, corporate treasury and finance after starting his career in 1974 with The First National Bank of Chicago where he held a progression of domestic and international corporate banking positions.
Mr. Hilton's professional affiliations include Grantmakers In Aging, and the American Association of Homes and Services for Aging. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a candidate for the degree of Executive Doctorate of Management from the Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University.
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Deb Damschroder, LSW
Secretary
is the Executive Director of Community Services for the Lutheran Homes Society (LHS), in Toledo, OH. She has more than 20 years of experience as a social worker, service coordinator, and social service supervisor. Damschroder oversees the housing and community-based service coordination programs for LHS and currently serves as the chair of the Standards of Practice Committee for AASC. She received her B.S. in social work and her M.Ed. from the University of Toledo and is a licensed social worker in the state of Ohio.
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Diana Meyer
is a senior director of Enterprise Community Partners (formerly The Enterprise Foundation) and is the interim director of knowledge management. She manages Enterprise’s resident services initiative, in partnership with national, regional and local affordable housing organizations that seeks to improve standards of practice for resident services coordination in family affordable housing. She previously served as the housing, economic development and transportation lobbyist for the City of New York in Washington; chief of research and policy development for the California Department of Housing and Community Development; director of congressional and intergovernmental relations at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and staff to two Members of Congress.
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Karen Lenoir, MSW
is the Director of Social Services for Christian Church Homes of Northern California. Christian Church Homes, a private non-profit corporation, has been providing quality housing in caring communities since 1961 and was created to meet the housing needs of low-income seniors who were facing fewer housing choices in a shrinking Northern California market. Prior to coming to CCHNC, Ms. Lenoir was a Service Coordinator for twelve years, a case manager with Jewish Children and Family Services where she provided case management services for at-risk seniors and Director of a Senior Nutrition Program. Ms. Lenoir has over 28 years experience in the provision of information and referrals to community services; the planning and coordinating of professional community services for seniors to facilitate aging in place; and case management for homebound and frail seniors. She is also a co-author of an online training module for the Professional Service Coordinator certificate program sponsored by AASC and the Ohio State University.
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Ronald Budynas
is the Director of Housing for Wesley Housing Corporation. Wesley has 21 elderly housing facilities housing over 1400 elderly families in conventional, HUD and housing authority units in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas. Twenty of these facilities have service coordinators including the HUD, conventional and housing authority facilities. In addition to oversight, marketing and compliance responsibilities for these facilities, he develops and administers grants from various federal and local organizations. He graduated from the University of Memphis with a BS in Education, and after building airports for 20 years in the United States Marine Corps, he has generated over 15 years of Real Estate Management experience.
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Jeff Lubell
is Executive Director of the Center for Housing Policy, the research affiliate of the National Housing Conference. The Center works to expand awareness of the nation's affordable housing challenges and to strengthen the policies, programs and other tools that address these needs. Prior to coming to the Center, Mr. Lubell worked as director of the policy development division in the Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as a housing policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and as an independent consultant focused on housing and asset-building policies. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Lubell served as Project Director for FSS Partnerships, an initiative focused on helping families in public and assisted housing build assets, increase their earnings, and become homeowners. In particular, FSS Partnerships strived to foster partnerships between public housing agencies and other organizations and agencies in the community that can help increase the number of families benefiting from HUD's Family Self-Sufficiency Program (FSS).
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Jan Monks, LSW
President
Jan is the President and founding member of the American Association of Service Coordinators (AASC), bringing over 25 years of experience in the senior housing industry. Ms. Monks is a nationally recognized advisor and trainer of service coordinators, managers, developers and owners of affordable housing. Other contributions include several publications, involvement in national organizations and providing testimony before Congress on the expanding role of service coordination in affordable family and elderly housing. The National Council on Aging recognized her with the “2004 Sid Specter Housing Award of Honor” for her efforts in linking housing and services. Jan was selected to serve as an at-large delegate at the White House Conference on Aging (WHCoA), held in Washington, DC in December of 2005. Janice is a graduate of Bowling Green State University of Ohio and holds an Ohio State license in social work.
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Advisory Committee Members
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Donna Thurmond
has worked in the social service field for almost 20 years. Currently, she is the Director of Senior and Volunteer Services for Volunteers of America in Alexandria, VA, where she provides leadership and strategic direction for elderly and volunteer services to Volunteers of America and its 39 local offices. Thurmond is responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of the organization’s HUD-sponsored Service Coordinator Program. She also secured funding to continue the organization’s senior volunteer initiative and provided leadership to enhance the organization’s volunteer program. She received her M.A. in Sociology, specializing in Gerontology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Terry D. Allton, BSSW, LSW, MHA
is Vice President of Support Services for National Church Residences (NCR) in Columbus, Ohio, which has over 150 service coordinator programs. With over nine years experience in operations management of healthcare environments, Allton has worked as a healthcare planning consultant, director of women’s and children’s services for a medical center, and director of operations for a women’s health care center. She received her B.S. in social work from The Ohio State University and her M.S. in health-care administration from Central Michigan University.
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Tom Trolio
currently works for the Seattle, WA Housing Authority – Case Management Specialists Team as the human services program supervisor of 14 social workers and 49 buildings. Prior to working for the City of Seattle, he managed the Highline Senior Center and provided crisis intervention for the Kirkland Care Unit. Trolio received his B.A. in Psychology from Central Washington University, his M.S. in Counseling Psychology, and an AA from Shoreline Community College.
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