Portland, OR — Health Care for All Oregon, a coalition of 120 organizations and over 17,000 activists statewide advocating for universal publicly funded health care, announces the hiring of a new Executive Director, Jan Falk, MSW, effective July 1, 2016.
Jan is a native of Fairfax Station, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC, where she lived and worked as a family therapist, political activist, change agent and executive director. She has served as the CEO of four nonprofits including St. Francis House, Boston’s largest treatment facility for the homeless, NAMI of Massachusetts, SAVE- Shelter Against Violent Environments, as well as the Center for Human Development, a national think- tank on effective education strategies. Prior to serving as Executive Director she was the Director of Development for the Whitman-Walker Clinic, the HIV/AIDS service provider for the DC area, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Police Foundation. She has been a grant writer for various nonprofits and community based organizations since 1981.
She has been active in political campaigns for the past twenty years to elect candidates and support legislation and funding for issues including healthcare, gun control, homelessness, domestic violence and children’s programming. Jan graduated from the University of Maryland and George Mason University in Virginia.
She moved to Bend two years ago where she has a psychotherapy private practice (part time) and has three sons who live in Seattle and New York.
