Dionne Dobbins, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Arlington, Va

As the head of the research department at Child Care Aware of America, Dr. Dobbins provides strategic direction for the organization’s research agenda. She leads a team of researchers that partners with CCRRs and other child care leaders to elevate their child care issues and offer solutions. She has led the development of several nationally recognized reports that are used to inform the development of child care policy, advocacy tools, and the delivery of TA and training. She has expertise in research design and implementation and is adept at translating highly technical information into products that are useful for a variety of non-research audiences.

Silver Spring, Maryland

• Directed and managed research, training, and technical assistance projects for government and non-government clients• Translated and disseminated research and evaluation findings to relevant stakeholders and consumer groups • Developed award-winning psycho-educational web content for military children and their families• Developed eLearning curricula for HIV counselors and constituents• Content expertise areas include military families, HIV prevention, special education, health equity, and child and family mental health• Versed in quantitative and qualitative methodology; familiar with SAS, SPSS, Atlas TI, Key Survey, ThinkTank

Bethesda, Md

• Responsible for the administrative, scientific, and technical review of research grant applications for the child and maternal health portfolio • Identified research funding priorities in child and maternal health• Researched and developed maternal and child health focused requests for applications (RFAs) and Requests for Proposals (RFPs) • Provided technical assistance to applicants and grantees on maternal and child health funding emphasis at NINR• Organized and managed peer-review groups to evaluate research proposals on the basis of their scientific merit• Served as spokesperson for NINR programs for the scientific community, the Congress, and partner Federal agencies

• Managed $2,000,000 multimedia health equity campaigns targeting African American seniors for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) • Supervised team of media consultants, marketing analysts, researchers, and communication specialists• Designed and conducted formative research activities to inform the development of campaign materials including literature reviews, media buying surveys, and consumer focus groups• Conducted media outreach analysis• Developed and disseminated toolkit that translated health equity research to minority target group

Washington, Dc

• Led strategic and financial planning processes with over 20 statewide and community initiatives in the fields of education, workforce development, child mental health • Published financing strategy briefs and guided community initiatives in the identification of fiscal and personnel resources to support their work• Designed and conducted over 50 trainings and conference workshops on financing and sustaining community initiatives • Directed and produced written policy tools for $2,000,000 national contract funded by the Child Care Bureau

One of 10 fellows chosen to work in Office of Head Start for a year. My post was with the Associate Commissioner.• Researched, revised, and trained on Head Start Child Outcomes standards • Revised Head Start monitoring tools and protocols • Developed and implemented a healthy lifestyles campaign for federal staff

Washington, Dc

• Provided management and research expertise on a broad range of educational topics • Program areas included Head Start, child care, adult education, adult ESL, and professional development systems.• Research projects included program of a national multisite experimental evaluation of Head Start programs, a national multisite mixed methods study of Adult ESL programs, formative research to inform the development of the Head Start monitoring system and training protocols.

Chapel Hill, Nc

Managed a statewide family literacy research project.

Ms; Ph.D, Applied Developmental Psychology

Ba, Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology