Who determines the Planning Council membership?
The CARE Act legislation requires that the CEO appoint volunteer members to the Planning Council. As CEO of the NEMA Ryan White Title-I program, the Mayor of the City of Newark has the sole responsibility for such appointments. The membership of the Planning Council is required under the federal Ryan White legislation to include at least one representative from each of the following categories: 1) health care providers; 2) community-based and AIDS service organizations; 3) social service providers, including housing and homeless service providers; 4) mental health providers; 5) Substance abuse providers; 6) local public health agencies; 7) hospital planning agencies or health care planning agencies; 8) affected communities; including people living with HIV/AIDS (minimum of 33%); 9) non-elected community leaders; 10) State Medicaid Agency; 11) State Title-II agency 12) Title-III (early intervention services); 13) Title-IV (clinical research on therapies for pediatric patients and women
