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Mike Neely was appointed by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas to the Los Angeles Homeless
Services Authority Commission in 2011.
Mr. Neely is the founder and past director of the Homeless Outreach Program/Integrated Care
System. The Homeless Outreach Program was founded in 1988 as a pilot program with $50,000
and four employees and grew into a multi-million dollar project with more than sixty
employees.
He served on the State Commission on Homeless Veterans, the State Commission on African
American Males and Substance Abuse. He was a Los Angeles County Commissioner on the
Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Commission. He was a member of the Congressional Black
Caucus Veterans Brain Trust. Mr. Neely served on the Downtown Strategic Plan Committee
which provided the framework the downtown Los Angeles’ renaissance in the 21st Century. He
was also involved in issues where he improved the outcomes for many projects. He participated
in the development and implementation of the first mobile HIV/AIDS testing van. He was the
first to develop an outreach program to employ formerly homeless individuals to assist the
United States Census Bureau to implement counting homeless persons in the 1990 census. He
assisted the City of Los Angeles in organizing its homeless count in support of the City’s lawsuit
against the Federal government in the mid 1990’s. He was member the Los Angeles County
Welfare Reform Implementation Committee, and a member of the Prop. 36 Implementation
Task Force.
Mr. Neely was selected as a Hesselbein Fellow of the Peter Drucker Foundation (now Leader to
Leader Institute). This Institute provides intensive training in leadership and management with
some of the great thought leaders of our time including , Peter Drucker, Frances Hesselbein,
Noel Tichy, Warren Bennis and Ken Blanchard. The Fellowship also included the opportunity to
be mentored by a management expert. His mentor was Jim Collins, author of “Good to Great”
and they worked extensively together and have maintained a great working relationship.
Mr. Neely has served on numerous Advisory boards and Study groups as well as the Board of
Directors of the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Program Executives. Mr. Neely
retired in 2004. He is an active participant in many community projects. He is the appointee of
County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas of the Second District to the Los Angeles Homeless
Services Authority (LAHSA) Board of Commissions by Los Angeles.
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