Charles Robbins
Principal
Health Management Associates
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With nearly three decades of executive leadership in the nonprofit sector, Charles’ passion is focused on supporting government entities and community-based organizations in achieving greater results through assessment, alignment, and the implementation of innovative solutions.
Charles’ career spans healthcare, child welfare, probation, housing and homelessness, mental health, suicide prevention, harm reduction, and substance use disorder, with a forte in HIV and LGBT populations. He is astute in project management, fund development, needs and organizational assessment, strategic planning, evaluation, accreditation, marketing, government relations, and coalition building, uniting people and processes around shared values, common goals, and evidence-based solutions to achieve lasting results.
Charles joined HMA Community Strategies (HMACS) from APLA Health, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) providing healthcare and social services to the HIV, LGBTQ+, and low-income populations in Los Angeles. As the chief advancement officer, Charles led grant efforts to become Patient Center Medical Home (PCMH) certified. Prior, as vice president at The Village Family Services, a child welfare and behavioral health agency, Charles was instrumental in the planning, development, execution, and evaluation of programs for vulnerable and at-risk transition age youth (TAY). As chief executive officer of The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention lifeline for LGBTQ+ youth, Charles established an annual strategic plan and program evaluation process which identified gaps in services and resulted in the launch of online crisis services. Under Charles’ tenure, the organization achieved national accreditation from the American Association of Suicidology. Charles’ early career work included movement building at the National LGBT Task Force, advocacy at GLAAD, and the founding of Project Angel Heart, a home delivered meal program in Denver.
Charles serves as a Los Angeles county commissioner for the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect, volunteers as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), and is a board member of the LGBTQ+ Center of the Desert in Palm Springs. Charles holds an MBA in healthcare management from Western Governors University and a certificate in nonprofit administration from the University of Colorado, Denver.
Specializations:
Homelessness, Housing, Child Welfare, Healthcare, Substance Use Disorder, Harm Reduction, Mental Health, Probation, Suicide Prevention, HIV Prevention, LGBT Population
Implementation and evaluation of multi-sector collective action framework, stakeholder engagement, focus group facilitation, conducting key stakeholder interviews, designing and deploying surveys, and data collection
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