Experience & Training: Michele Fuller-Hallauer, MSW, LMSW, is the owner, CEO, and Chief Strategist for Winged Wolf Innovations, a Technical Assistance and Consulting Firm that she started after she most recently left a twenty-one-year career as a Manager for Clark County Social Service. While at Clark County, she led the Southern Nevada CoC application process for nineteen (19) years, including developing the regional collaborative application and facilitating the local application request for proposal process. She also managed a unit of over thirty (30) staff responsible for developing federal, state, and local grant applications, scopes of work, requests for proposal processes, contract development and administration, contract monitoring and compliance, and landlord engagement and property services. Her leadership responsibilities also included continued collaboration, coordination, resource, and development efforts within the homeless service and behavioral health continua of care while spearheading system change in Southern Nevada. These efforts resulted in increasing resources for homeless services from $2M a year to over $95.6M a year. While at Clark County Social Service, Michele managed direct service staff for multiple housing program types, including bridge, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, family reunification program, and general assistance staff.

She was a part-time professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, from 2012 to 2016, teaching macro social work classes. Michele has extensive experience with the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act and has served on multiple national work groups, including the Co-Chair of the National Alliance to End Homelessness Leadership Council (2013-2023). She served on the Governor’s Nevada Interagency Council on Homelessness Board from 2015 to 2019 and is the Chair of the Technical Assistance Committee for the Nevada Interagency Council on Homelessness to Housing. Prior to her move to Las Vegas, Michele had 15 years of experience in direct service experience working with vulnerable populations, including those experiencing mental health issues, substance use challenges, those diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, and families and children in need of stabilization and family preservation assistance. Michele hails from the mid-west with bachelor’s degrees in education and psychology from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, and then received her Master of Social Work degree from the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where her concentration was on Management of Human Service Organizations and Community Organizing.