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Donald Golding has held various roles throughout their work experience. Donald started working at Con Edison in 1992 as a Programmer and stayed there until 1995. From 1995 to 2004, they worked at BNY Mellon as a Senior Client/Server Programmer Analyst and then as a Distributed Application Developer III. Donald returned to BNY Mellon in 2006 and worked there as a Project Manager until 2012. In 2013, they joined YMCA as the Director of Youth Development, and then in 2021, they became the Senior Director of Information Technology at Yonkers YMCA. Currently, they are working as the Director of IT at Fountain House, starting in 2023.
Donald Golding attended Iona University from 1988 to 1992, where they earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. In addition to their formal education, they have obtained several certifications, including "New Manager Foundations," "Prepare for the PMI-ACP Certification," "Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Project Management," "Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team," "Agile at Work: Driving Productive Agile Meetings," "Agile at Work: Getting Better with Agile Retrospectives," "Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories," "Marketing Foundations," "Agile Foundations," "Agile Product Owner Role: Foundations," "Artificial Intelligence for Project Managers," "Assessing and Improving Strategic Plans," "Blending Project Management Methods," "Business Acumen for Project Managers," "Cert Prep: Project Management Professional (PMP)," "Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers," "Critical Thinking for Better Judgment and Decision-Making," "Defining and Achieving Professional Goals," "Developing Business Acumen," and "Leadership Fundamentals."
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Millions of Americans living with serious mental illness are denied access to care and support in the community, and end up cycling through our streets, shelters, emergency rooms, and jails. For far too long our punitive, ineffective and costly approaches have taken away their capacity, dignity, and humanity. For more than 70 years, Fountain House has believed in people living with serious mental illness - who are our sons, daughters, mothers and fathers, friends and neighbors - and has proven that they can reach their goals and aspirations for a better life. Fountain House works. Our members are hospitalized and experience crisis significantly less than others with serious mental illness, resulting in 21% lower Medicaid costs. Of the 40% of our members experiencing homelessness or unstable housing when they arrive at Fountain House, 99% are housed within a year. Of the 24% of Fountain House members with a history of incarceration and justice involvement, rates of recidivism are less than 5%. Our members complete their education, find paid work, and achieve health and wellness goals at significantly higher rates than people living with serious mental illness who don’t have access to our programs. This is a model that is working in Mental Health Clubhouses across the country.