Jack Kemp is a Senior Policy Associate at the Treatment Research Institute and former Director of Substance Abuse Services for the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH. He has over 34 years of experience in the field of addictions, mainly in senior management positions in Delaware and New York. As SSA Director in Delaware, he redesigned and restructured the statewide substance abuse treatment system, and introduced a performance based contracting model that connects payment to performance. He served as Executive Leader for the Robert Wood Johnson/CSAT Network for the Improvement of Treatment (NIATx) State Pilot to improve access and retention in treatment throughout the state, and for the RWJF Advancing Recovery grant to implement evidence based practices. Mr. Kemp also is the Principal Investigator, in collaboration with TRI, for a NIDA grant on Statewide Science-Based Concurrent Recovery Monitoring in Delaware, and formerly served as the Director of the Treatment Access Center (TASC), overseeing a statewide program that provided liaison between the substance abuse treatment and criminal justice systems. He is a member of the Washington Circle group, serving on its Policy and Public Sector committees. His educational background includes an M.S. degree in Educational Counseling from the University of Scranton, and post-graduate training at the Alfred Adler Institute of Psychoanalysis in New York City. He is currently enrolled in the MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) graduate program at the University of Delaware.