Wisconsin Fall Leadership Institute & Development Program

Tina M. Campanella has over 45 years of experience working with children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She has worked in both the state government and private non-profit sector during her career. She has extensive experience at multiple levels within systems that support people with disabilities including direct service provision in residential and vocational settings, program development, management and administration as well as quality management activities in Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/ID) and Medicaid Waiver funded services. She was also part of the leadership group that created the Personal Outcomes still used by CQL. Ms. Campanella is currently an independent consultant working with multiple organizations and as an expert witness. (Contact Tina at tina818@aol.com)

Derrick F. Dufresne, is the President of CRA. Over the course of his career, he has delivered conference presentations, training, strategic board planning retreats, workshops, and management consultation to over eighty thousand people in forty-nine states regarding issues related to people with disabilities. Since entering the field in 1974, Derrick’s dedication to the community has evolved from serving as a unit manager in an institutional setting to running a non-profit that provided housing to individuals with disabilities in the community to managing projects that close institutions and assist in the transition of individuals into the community. From 2003-2009, Derrick served as President/CEO of the Institute on Public Policy For People with Disabilities in Illinois. The Institute is a membership organization that focuses on promoting best practice and quality community supports for people with disabilities throughout Illinois.

Gail Godwin is the Founder of Shared Support Maryland, Inc. and holds a Training Associate position at ICI UMass. Gail’s MA is from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Education, Program in Severe Disabilities – educational, employment & community inclusion. For over 30 years, she has been an advocate in collaboration with people with disabilities and has worked in service provider organizations as a direct support staff, middle manager, administrator, and in training and development. She served 10 years as a member of the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Council on the Executive and Cross-Cutting Issues Committee. She also served 10 years as a board member of The Maryland Association of Community Services. She is the co-founder of the New York Downstate Person-Centered Consortium and one of many Founders of the Alliance for Citizen Directed Supports. Gail has extensive experience in self-directed service provision, positive supports, training, development, person-directed planning, individualized supports, and organizational development. Gail has co-authored articles and presents testimonies on topics in support of the advancement of disability rights. Gail graduated from the 2009 Leadership Institute and has been a faculty member of the Consortium for over 15 years. (Contact Gail at gail@sharedsupportmd.org)

Shayne Roos currently serves as the North Carolina Project Director for the Disability Innovation Fund (DIF) – Subminimum Wage to Competitive Integrated Employment (SWTCIE), a federal program under the U.S. Department of Education’s Rehabilitation Services Administration designed to help people with disabilities transition from subminimum wage employment to competitive integrated employment. Prior to relocating to NC, Roos served as Executive Vice President of Achieva, a non-profit human services organization based out of Pittsburgh, PA, and President of Achieva Support, which encompassed the majority of Achieva’s service offerings including early intervention, housing services and employment supports. He had been employed with Achieva since 2002. Roos was vital to Achieva’s vocational transformation, closing all facility-based supports and ending the practice of paying people with disabilities a sub-minimum wage. Prior to his time at Achieva, he worked as a Qualified Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities Professional and then as a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. Roos graduated from Westminster College with a B.A. in Sociology in 1996 and in 2009 became a graduate of The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities. (Contact Shayne at roos.shayne@gmail.com)