Ben Burton has been the Executive Director of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless, Inc for the last 6 years. The Miami Coalition for the Homeless, Inc. focuses on homeless prevention, advocacy, and resource coordination.
Mr. Burton was Assistant Executive Director of Community Friendship, Inc., a psychosocial rehabilitation agency, and held administrative positions from 1989-1999. He was founding Board President of Georgia Rehabilitation Outreach from 1999-2005, a psychiatric housing and services organization. He was founding Secretary of the Living Room, which is an HIV/AIDS housing and services agency from 1998-2000.
More recently, he was the Clinical Director of Carrfour Supportive Housing from 2000-2001, a Co-Chair of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Providers Forum from 2001-2002, he has been a Co-Chair of the Community Coalition for a Living wage from 2001-present, he is an active member of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust’s Housing and Service Development Committees, he was the Homeless Cluster Representative to the Alliance for Human Services from 2003-2007. He is currently also a member of the Miami-Dade County Community Action Agency Board 2007-Present.
Mr. Burton has over twenty years of experience working with people experiencing homelessness and extensive experience implementing programs for varied populations including the most difficult to serve homeless and mentally ill residents. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Biology, completed a Health Professions Program at Harvard University, and has a Masters in Clinical Psychology. Mr. Burton is licensed as a Professional Counselor and a Mental Health Counselor in several states. He is also nationally certified as a Counselor and internationally certified as a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Professional.
Quotes: Philosophy “Everyone has the right to safe and decent housing” “ I have a specific interest in seeing that those who have the most difficulty living in the community receive needed housing and services.”
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