Michael Franczak, PhD, currently serves as the Director of Population Health Services for Copa Health, Phoenix, Arizona. He has been involved in Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Development Disability services in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona for the past 40 years. Dr. Franczak has served as an expert witness in many landmark cases concerning mental health and developmental Disabilities and serves as an expert to the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Dr. Franczak has been the primary investigator on numerous grants from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Service administration including Housing Approaches for Persons with a Serious Mental Illness, Jail Diversion for Persons with a Serious Mental Illness, Integrated Substance Abuse Mental Health Treatment Models System of Care Practices for Children and Adolescents and Substance Abuse Services for Adolescents.