Since 1994 Watt has been the Executive Director of the Van Ness Recovery House (VNRH), a residential substance abuse treatment program targeting the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community. VNRH was founded in 1973 by the Los Angeles Gay Community Service Center and members of Alcoholics Anonymous Together joining forces to begin the Nations first Gay and Lesbian targeted alcohol recovery facility. In 1994 VNRH added a Job Training Program to assist residents’ efforts to increase their computer skills and to become employed. In 1995 VNRH added Out-Patient Counseling based on harm reduction to address the exploding Crystal Methamphetamine crisis. In 1996 VNRH added treatment-on-demand (Day Treatment Program) for those waiting on the list to enter the residential program. In 1996 VNRH added a Sober Living facility – a 12-unit apartment building providing transitional living for residents who completed the four to six month residential program. In 1996 Watt assisted Norway in establishing a social model drug and alcohol program modeled after VNRH in the town of Odda. In 1997 VNRH participated in the first federally funded research studies on Crystal Methamphetamine and Gay Men on the west coast. Watt has been a member of the HIV Drug and Alcohol Task Force since 1992, a member of the West Hollywood Addiction and Recovery Task Force since 1997, the County of Los Angeles Sober Living Task Force since 1999, the Los Angeles County HIV Prevention Planning Committee and the Los Angeles Commission on HIV, and Chairperson of the LGBT Drug and Alcohol Constituent committee for the State Of California Drug and Alcohol program office. Currently, Kathy is serving a two-year term as the National Community Co-Chair of the Urban Coalition of HIV AIDS Prevention Services (UCHAPS).