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Committees, Boards, Workgroups

• Real Choice Systems Change Grant Task Force
• Governor's Forum on Substance Abuse
• Lt. Governor's Substance Abuse Strategy Board
• Child Welfare Steering Committee
• Perinatal Addiction Task Force
• Healthy Start Advisory Committee
• Healthy Moms/Healthy Kids Advisory Committee
• Illinois DASA Advisory Council Women's Committee
• Infant Mortality Reduction
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Domestic Violence Coordinating Councils
• Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, Child/Family Work Group
• Governors State University Adjunct Faculty
• Governors State University Addictions Program Advisory Board
• Triton Community College Addictions Program Advisory Board

Advisory Boards - Maya's approaches have influenced policies and improved outcomes for women and their children, on committees such as:

• Mayor Daley's Task Force on Women's Health, where she met Hilary Clinton, who came to Chicago to personally meet the members of the task force.
• Governor Edgar's Forum on Substance Abuse
• Lt. Governor Kustra's Substance Abuse Strategy Board
• Child Welfare / Infant Mortality / Perinatal Addiction Advisory Committees
• Grandparents Raising Grandparents
• Domestic Violence Coordinating Councils
  

Project Manager

• Project SAFE - Project Manager
• DCFS Initiative - designed, implemented by Maya in 1994
• Domestic Violence and substance abuse community collaboration coordinator
• FY92 FY95 & FY98 Women's Plan
• Outreach Manual (for finding and engaging addicted moms into treatment)
• Women's Training Manual
• Healthy Start - Project Manager