National Consumer Advisory Board
What is NCAB?
The National Consumer Advisory Board (NCAB) is made up of homeless and formerly homeless persons who have been clients of Health Care for the Homeless projects across the country and who are involved in the governance of those HCH projects. NCAB is a standing committee of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, and the elected Chairperson of NCAB sits on the National Council’s Board of Directors. |
Mission
To be the vehicle for consumers of Health Care for the Homeless Projects;
to become a collaborative voice
on national issues.
We hold central the priority of assisting consumers in the development of by-laws and/or guidelines for local CAB's and serving as a clearing house of information and assistance to consumers.
Nominations for NCAB Executive Committee Positions
To learn about nominating yourself or someone else for election to the NCAB Executive Committee, please click here.
Ellen Dailey Consumer Advocate Award
This annual national award honors the memory of the founding mother of NCAB by recognizing homeless or formerly homeless persons who have done extraordinary work to improve access of homeless people to health care. Nominations for the 2008 Dailey Award are now closed. Please join us for the presentation to the winner during the opening session of the 2008 National HCH Conference & Policy Symposium.
Consumer Travel Scholarships
Applications are now closed. We are pleased that over 50 homeless or formerly homeless persons will be part of our national meetings.
Consumer Participation Outreach
NCAB is developing a method called Consumer Participation Outreach to engage large numbers of homeless persons in establishing and advocating for our policy priorities. In the initial outreach effort, HCH Consumer Advisory Boards and HCH projects across the country used the same outreach questions to engage in conversations with homeless persons, which resulted in the following report and recommendations. The Consumer Participation Outreach #2 asked questions about health care; Consumer Participation Outreach #3 asked about chronic homelessness and access to services. Outreach #4 further explores the links between health and homelessness.
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Executive Committee
Sarah Davidson - San Antonio, Texas, Chair
Amy Grassette - Worcester, Massachusetts, Co-Chair
Carol Hall - Portland, Oregon, Co-Chair
Ulysses Maner - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Secretary
Reginald O. Hamilton - Detroit, Michigan
Marianne Mallot - Eugene, Oregon
Antoinetta Stadlman III - San Francisco, California
Resources
Join Us
Homeless and formerly homeless persons who have received services from an HCH project are encouraged to become members of the National Consumer Advisory Board. NCAB members are Individual Members of the National Council, and NCAB’s elected Executive Committee is a Standing Committee of the National Council. No dues are required to be part of NCAB’s membership. To join NCAB, please click here or print, fill out and mail the NCAB brochure.
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Sarah Davidson, Chair |
Carol Hall, Co-Chair
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Amy Grassette, Co-Chair
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Ulysses Maner, Secretary
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Antoinetta Stadlman |
To contact NCAB’s leaders, please write to ncab@nhchc.org. |
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IN MEMORIAM
Ellen Dailey, mother of the
HCH Consumer movement,
died on June 18. 2006
Her advocacy for justice continues.
Read remembrances of Ellen
from around the country.
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