NEADA Meeting Materials
Recent Meeting Materials
2026 New Directors Training and Winter Meeting
2025 Annual Meeting
Federal Appropriations and Budget
– OCS Training: LIHEAP Monitoring Trends Analysis (FY24) – ACF LIHEAP Staff – Heather Jones, Energy Policy & Evaluation Branch Chief; Akm Rahman, Operations Branch Chief; Andrew Germain, Director, Fiscal Operations & Accountability Unit (2025)
– Increased Funding and Changes to WAP – Andrea Schroer, NASCSP (2022)
– The Trump Budget – Deborah Weinstein, CHN, (2018)
– OCS Perspective: LIHEAP as a Block Grant – Jeff Polich, OCS, (2016)
– ACF – Benefits and Limitations of Block Grant Flexibility – Lauren Christopher, Akm Rahman, ACF, (2015)
Community Outreach
– Extreme Weather and Low-Income Household Finance: Evidence from Payday Loan – Victoria Wenxin Xie, Santa Clara University (2024)
– The Residential Energy Consumption Survey: A look back at 2020, looking ahead to 2024 – Chip Berry, Energy Information Administration (2024)
– Paying Current Bills – Jessica Hinkle, Margie Meehan, KY LIHWAP, CAP KY (2022)
Energy Affordability
– National Academies Report on Reducing Intergenerational Poverty – Professor Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University (2025)
– Retail Residential Electricity Prices, Factors Impacting Prices, and Future Price Outlook – Alexander Gorski, M. Tyson Brown, and Lori Aniti, EIA (2024)
– Feeling the Heat: How Households Manage High Air Conditioning Bills – Daniel M. Sullivan, Ph.D., JPMorganChase Institute (2024)
– Energy Equity for Low-Income Households and Renters – Forest Bradley-Wright, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
– Energy Insecurity & the Need for Efficiency Improvements – Michael Reiner, Office of Energy Justice and Equity at DOE (2024)
– Energy Efficiency Policy and LIHEAP: Working Together to Support LMI Families – Adam Hasz, DOE Office of State & Community Energy Programs (2023)
– Census Pulse Survey – Jason Fields, U.S. Census Bureau (2021)
Addressing Energy Poverty – Lessons Learned From the E.U. – Stefan Bouzarovski, University of Manchester (2020)
– ACEEE Report: How High are Household Energy Burdens? – Ariel Drehobl, ACEEE (2020)
Extreme Heat
– – Federal-State Policy Landscape for Extreme Heat – Grace Wickerson, Federation of American Scientists (2024)
– Health Risks of Extreme Heat – Chris Worsham, Harvard Medical School
– Heat is a FEMA Disaster – Gabriela Sarri-Tobar, Center for Biological Diversity
– Roundtable Discussion: Impacts of Heat Exposure – NIH Neighborhoods and Health Laboratory (2023)
– Innovative Cooling Strategies: How to Install a Heat Pump for Less – Mark Jackson, CHP (2023)
Federal Policy
– Elderly Populations & Benefit Enrollment Centers – Marci Phillips, National Council on Aging (2025)
– IRA Home Energy Rebates – Adam Hasz, U.S. Department of Energy (2024)
– Low Income Household Water Assistance Program & Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program Updates – Megan Meadows, Akm Rahman, and Andrew Germain, OCS
– ACF LIHWAP Update – Administration for Children and Families (2021)
Program Administration
– LIHEAP Training Day 1 (Assurances 1, 2, 3) – Melissa Torgerson, Verve Associates (2025)
– LIHEAP Training Day 2 (Assurances 4-16, begin with 5 & 8) – Melissa Torgerson, Verve Associates (2025)
– LIHEAP Virtual Training Day 1 (Assurances 1-6) Part 1 – Melissa Torgerson, Verve Associates (2022)
– LIHEAP Virtual Training Day 1 (Assurances 1-6) Part 2 – Melissa Torgerson, Verve Associates (2022)
– LIHEAP Virtual Training Day 2 (Assurances 7-16) Part 1 – Melissa Torgerson, Verve Associates (2022)
– LIHEAP Virtual Training Day 2 (Assurances 7-16) Part 2 – Melissa Torgerson, Verve Associates (2022)
– OCS Training: LIHEAP Monitoring Trends Analysis (FY24) – Heather Jones, Energy Policy & Evaluation Branch Chief; Akm Rahman, Operations Branch Chief; Andrew Germain, Director, Fiscal Operations & Accountability Unit, ACF LIHEAP Staff (2025)
– A Connecticut Case Study in Aligning LIHEAP & CSBG Reporting – Linette Pisani (LIHEAP) and Shauneice Mitchell (CSBG), Connecticut Department of Social Services (2024)
– Memphis Case Studies – LaTricea Adams, Young, Gifted and Green & the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council
– Pennsylvania Chapter 14 and Utility Billing – Ria Pereira, Pennsylvania Utility Law Project
– Introduction to AI and AI Concerns – Brian Pendleton, Tasaane Mgmt LLC
Rachel See, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Ken Kato, Kindo & former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow (2024)
– LIHEAP Performance Measures – Jane Blank, Wisconsin (2019)
– PMIWG Winter Meeting 2025 Update – PMIWG State Members; Melissa Torgerson, Verve Associates (2025)
– – CFPB ToolkitZachary Teutsch (2016)
– Internal Controls – Harvanko (2015)
Solar Energy
– Community Solar: A Good Option for LIHEAP Households – Charlie Harak, National Consumer Law Center (2024)
– Incorporating Solar Garden Subscription Costs – Michael Schmitz, Minnesota (2024)
– LIHEAP and Solar – Monisha Shah, NREL (2018)
– U.S DOE Clean Energy for Low Income Communities Accelerator (CELICA) – DiRamio and Bowman (2017)
Utility Impacts
– Model Utility Shutoff Rules & Extreme Weather – Charlie Harak, National Consumer Law Center (2024)
– Maryland’s recent utility shut-off protections journey, Case #9745 – Brandi Nieland, Maryland Office of People’s Counsel
– Utility Outreach Programs – Kate Granger, National Grid (2015)
– NASUCA Policy on Shut-off and Arrearages Yohannes K.G. Mariam, NASUCA (2015)
Vulnerable Populations: Children and Young Families
– LIHEAP in the Context of Other Social Safety Net Programs
Elderly Populations & Benefit Enrollment Centers – Marci Phillips, National Council on Aging (2025)
– National Academies Report on Reducing Intergenerational Poverty – Professor Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University (2025)
– The Child Tax Credit: Impacts and Lessons for Future Expansion – Elisa Minoff, Center for the Study of Social Policy (2024)
– Economic Security Programs and Childhood Outcomes – Arloc Sherman, CBPP, (2018)
– LIHEAP & Young Families – Cassandra Lovejoy, NEADA (2018)
Vulnerable Populations: Health and Aging
– Pregnancy Health and Increasing Heat in the US – Skye Wheeler, Human Rights Watch, Dr. Rupa Basu, UC Berkeley (2020)
– Energy Insecurity: Downstream Impacts on Health – Peter Kahn, Yale University (2019)
– Aging-in-Place – Lynne Snyder and Cheryl Casnoff (2018)
– Reaching and Engaging Elderly Populations – Maggie Flowers, National Council on Aging (2015)
– Child Health and Energy Affordability – John Cook, Children’s HealthWatch (2015)
Water Assistance
– Getting to Know the Network: Water Assistance Partners – Scott Berry, U.S. Water Alliance (2021)
Weatherization
– LIHEAP, WAP, and Climate Proposals – Tony Reames, DOE (2021)
– WAP and Renewables – Krystal Layman, DOE (2018)
COVID-19 Resources
COVID-19 Resources for LIHEAP Directors
Utility Shutoff Reporting
NEADA Webinars
Federal LIHEAP Update, June 10, 2025
Speakers
▪ Mark Wolfe, Executive Director, NEADA
▪ Cassandra Lovejoy, Policy Director, NEADA
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Slides
NEADA Federal Budget and LIHEAP Funding Update, March 14, 2024
Speakers
▪ Mark Wolfe, Executive Director, NEADA
▪ Cassandra Lovejoy, Policy Director, NEADA
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Slides
NEADA/EEI Webinar Series: Spotlight on Wisconsin, September 14, 2022
Moderator Lisa Wood, VP, Customer Solutions, EEI
Discussants
▪ Jane Blank, Section Chief, Wisconsin Department of Administration, Division of Energy, Housing & Community Resources, Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program (WHEAP)
▪ Chris Carper, Energy Assistance Leader, Wisconsin Public Service (WPS)
▪ Barbara Klug, Bureau Director, Wisconsin Department of Administration, Division of Energy, Housing & Community Resources
▪ Mark Wolfe, Executive Director, NEADA
Prepay Meters – October 3, 2016
Speakers: John Howat, NCLC, Mark Wolfe, NEADA
Webinar Slides: John Howat, NCLC
Resources: NEADA’s Resolution on Prepay Meters