Eric, PolicyWork’s Vice President, is a senior staff member at San Diego State University’s Interwork Institute and also serves as Director of the California Health Incentives Improvement Project (CHIIP).
As Director of CHIIP, he is responsible for focusing the state’s attention and resources toward systemic changes that will support individuals with disabilities in their efforts to connect to jobs and careers and lead independent lives. In this role, he is embedded in California’s Employment Development Department and has offices at the agency’s Sacramento headquarters.
CHIIP partnered with Daniels & Associates to develop and implement the peer-mentoring program that forms the core of the Access CQ Project and has provided financial support to PolicyWorks’ peer mentoring program as a college-to-work transition program within CHIIP’s youth programming initiative.