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Jenny Hill

Jenny Hill – Denver Department of Public Health & Environment’s (DDPHE) Homeless Health Policy Analyst

Jenny Hill serves as the Denver Department of Public Health & Environment’s (DDPHE) Homeless Health Policy Analyst. She is a member of the Denver Joint Task Force on Homelessness, the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) Homeless Task Force, DDPHE Liaison for the Homeless Leadership Council, and the programmatic administrator for a Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) Health Disparities Grant. This grant includes funding to reduce the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including behavioral health, with trauma responsive, person focused strategies through partnerships and research with service providers and people experiencing houselessness.
Prior to her current position at DDPHE, she served as the Recovery Support Services Program Administrator implementing and facilitating programs serving people experiencing houselessness and court/corrections involvement, providing technical assistance and training advancing the peer support workforce across city agencies and its’ community partners.
Her diverse background includes over 20 years in healthcare, 15 years in nonprofit program development and service delivery, and 5 years in public health. She is the co-chair of the Recovery Workgroup with expertise in trauma responsive peer support services, systems and legislative advocacy leading to systems transformation. In 2014, she was awarded Advocate of the Year by the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved.  
She served on the Behavioral Health Transformation, Behavioral Health Planning & Advisory, Protection and Advocacy of Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI), and Colorado’s Bringing Recovery Support Services to Scale (BRSS TACS) councils. Her certifications include Advanced Level Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP®) Facilitator, Emotional CPR Practitioner, Alternatives to Suicide Co-facilitator and trainer, Group Facilitation, and Training from the Back of the Room. She continues to offer volunteer peer support with the Yarrow Collective.
She enjoys spending time with her family of choice, creative activities, being outdoors, and connecting with nature. She has survived houselessness twice in her life, once as a youth and again as an adult escaping traumatic circumstances.cing elit. Aenean diam dolor, accumsan sed rutrum vel, dapibus et leo.

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