Executive Director of Timelist Group, Inc.
TEDx speaker and operator of California's CalAIM Justice-Involved service line — available for keynotes, panels, and consulting engagements.
Credentials & Background
Yusef Wiley founded Timelist Group in 2007 as a peer-led initiative inside CDCR, achieved 501(c)(3) status in 2013, and rooted operations in the Antelope Valley from 2017 forward. Today he oversees $9.5M in active program budget under California Department of Social Services contracts, runs 9 LA County housing sites carrying a $63K/month utility burden, and delivered the CalAIM (California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal) Justice-Involved service line with direct LA County contracts — extending into JCOD contracting per current roadmap.
Speaking Topics
Each talk is rooted in the same operating reality — California's CalAIM Justice-Involved work, reentry housing at portfolio scale, and the workforce pipeline that follows.
How California's CalAIM Justice-Involved initiative moved from a state policy frame into a working service line — Enhanced Care Management enrollment, Community Supports navigation, and the behavioral-health engagement layer that actually holds participants in care.
Why stable housing is the first domino for every other reentry outcome — employment, treatment, family reconnection — and what it takes to operate licensed reentry housing capacity at portfolio scale.
What bringing the LADWP Direct Install program into nine LA County housing sites means in practice — and why moving the utility burden off program dollars is one of the highest-leverage operational moves a reentry operator can make.
How SOMAH's multifamily affordable housing solar program intersects with reentry housing — CalEnviroScreen's disadvantaged-community lens as the eligibility frame, and what that means for operators in qualifying census tracts.
Why community reentry outcomes depend on employers, congregations, and neighbors — not just case managers — and what it actually takes to bring the rest of the community into the work.
The JCOD / Timelist Academy model: pairing returning residents with paid transitional work, mentoring, and case management that lets them build a real record and convert a credential into a living-wage job.
Why immediate, stable housing is the on-ramp to everything else we do — and what it takes operationally to keep that on-ramp open at the volume a real reentry pipeline demands.
A practitioner-level look at building service systems where the people closest to the problem set the terms — peer-led design, lived-experience operators, and the structural changes that make it durable.
Speaking Inquiry
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