Philip Campbell
Date: June 1, 1999
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999- Assistant Superintendent. Wachusett Regional School District, Princeton, MA
Senior Manager for Pupil Personnel, Special Education, Preschool Services, Classroom Technology, Model Program Development and Grants Management for Regional School District encompassing five towns in central Massachusetts. School district encompasses 6500 pupils, K-12, with a budget of $41 million. Also responsible for adherence to state and federal Special Education laws.
1997-99 Chief Executive Officer. Family Services of Western Pennsylvania (FSWP). Pittsburgh, PA
Programmatic, personnel and budgetary management of $15 million full-range human service agency employing 320 staff and covering two counties, including the largest county, in Pennsylvania. Managed county, state, federal and private foundation funding. Oversight of supports for people with mental retardation and mental health concerns, including: residential services provided in Community Living Arrangements, Supported Living, and intensive residential rehabilitation; day and work services provided in Community Employment, facility-based work supports and adult developmental training and education; respite supports; partial hospitalization; outpatient counseling; and drug and alcohol prevention groups. Children's services and supports provided in: school-based counseling; foster care; adoption services; drug and alcohol prevention programs in the schools; targeted family interventions; custody education program for divorcing families; a drop-in center for adolescents; and a Family and Schools Together activities program. Hospital and school staff support provided through FSWP Employee Assistance Program. Brought the agency into fiscal stability; established new management structure; implemented quality assurance program and person-centered, community based and outcome-orientation to delivery of services and supports.
1991-1997 Commissioner. Department of Mental Retardation, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Policy, programmatic, and budgetary management of $760 million state system of services and supports to 24,000 people with mental retardation and their families, encompassing 8,500 public employees, 475 private vendor agencies, 5,500 service locations, seven large state developmental centers and 80 state-operated community homes. Decisive leadership during major public policy transition to a community-based system of supports, including: increase in federal Home and Community Based waiver support from $28M (1991) to $133M (1997); closure of three public institutions; development of Mission Statement and Guiding Principles; labor-management contract negotiation setting national precedent promoting consumer decision-making and empowerment; budget analysis and testifying before bi-cameral state legislative committees; negotiation with state legislators; completion of disengagement from 21 year old federal court involvement in five federal Consent Decrees; establishment of UMASS/DMR collaborative agreement; development of nationally recognized Urban Youth Collaborative Program; selected as one of eight "exemplary" state quality assurance systems by Health Care Financing Administration study; implemented integrated technologically-based operations system (individual support planning; contracts; quality enhancement; investigations); designed and implemented Management Information System encompassing over 50 separate locations and 1,500 users to manage work flow, maximize communication and eliminate paper; strengthened family supports and citizen board involvement. Reduced net state cost by 6% while increasing numbers of persons served by 15%, including major reduction in overall workforce and annual increases to community direct support staff.
1986-1991 Executive Director. Massachusetts Association for Retarded Citizens, Waltham, MA
Executive and management direction of organization providing statewide leadership in advocacy for persons with mental retardation and their families. Responsible to voluntary Board of Directors representing key stakeholders in field of mental retardation in Commonwealth; monitored state and local government adherence to legal requirements; prepared testimony for legislative hearings; supervised statewide fundraising; represented MARC on State Committees (Disability Prevention; Health and Habilitative Services); provided consumer and public education through conferences and newsletter.
1980-1986 Executive Director. F.F.S., Inc. (formerly First Few Steps), Worcester, MA
Development and management of private corporation providing array of social services to persons with disabilities throughout Greater Worcester Area: policy and programmatic direction; staff hiring, supervision and termination; budget management; capital development; compliance with state and federal regulations; Board and committee development.
1977-1980 High School Principal; Vocational Counselor. Capitol Region Educational Council,
East Hartford, Connecticut
Teacher supervision and career curriculum development in one of five innovative regional programs for youth with low incidence conditions such as severe mental retardation, autism, and violent social maladjustment and for intellectually gifted youth with depression and other psychiatric conditions. Provided day services to newly established state youth group home network linked to diagnostic center. Worked with community to create real jobs in areas such as carpentry and restaurants and to prepare and place youth.
1974-1977 Teaching Parent. Thompkins County Group Home, Inc., Ithaca, NY
Teaching Parent in Achievement Place Model group home.
1972-1974 Street Counselor. Turners Falls Youth Center. Turners Falls, MA
Counselor in innovative program providing continuity between school and after-school time for marginal youth including victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence, children of alcoholic parents, and individuals with borderline mental retardation.
EDUCATION
1974 B.A. University of Massachusetts - Amherst; American History
CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS
1974 Teacher Certificate. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1982 Massachusetts Secondary Principal Certificate. Worcester State College, Worcester, MA
1990 O'Keefe Professional Achievement Award. North Shore Association for Retarded Citizens
1991 Leadership Award. American Association on Mental Retardation, Region X
1993 President's Leadership Award. Greater Boston Association for Retarded Citizens
1994 Quality Assurance Innovations Award. American Network of Community Organizations
and Resources (ANCOR) and the University of Minnesota Institute on Community Integration
1996 Leadership Award. Massachusetts Association of Rehabilitation Facilities
1997 Scotty Luce Humanitarian Award. Scotty Luce Foundation
1997 Governor's Citation. Governor Weld, acknowledgment of services and leadership
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Association on Mental Retardation
National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services
National Association for Retarded Citizens/United States
CIVIC
Chair, Finance Committee. Sterling, Massachusetts.
Advisory Board. Medical Librarian Training for Minority Students, University of Pittsburgh.
GRANTS RECEIVED
1997 Massachusetts Self-Determination Project. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (matched
$50,000 by an additional $50,000 from the Home and Community Based Services Waiver). One of 18 states
securing highly competitive foundation funding on the basis of innovative planning to enhance the self-determination, choice, control and decision- making of families from minority cultural backgrounds who have family members with mental retardation and other developmental disabilities.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dougherty, R.H. and Campbell, P. (1995). Evaluation of organizational characteristics and management practices among contracted provider agencies. Lexington, MA.: Dougherty Management Associates.
Cerreto, M.C., Campbell, P., and McCormack, J. (1999). Cost-effective quality: One state's experience with converting community ICFs/MR to the Home and Community Based Services Waiver. (In preparation for press)