Matthew Rector Email & Phone Number

Santa Barbara

Community Services Department, Housing and Community Development DivisionHomelessness Assistance Programs TeamAdministration of federal, state, and local housing and community development programs, focused on addressing the needs of specialized populations (families with young children and transitional youth) experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. Role includes coordination of Continuum of Care Program activities and funds.

Santa Barbara, California, United States

Helping maximize the impact of public investment in early learning by configuring better data management systems; developing more powerful administrative tools; and providing real-time, reliable sources of information for advanced evaluation frameworks related to state- and locally funded initiatives for continuous quality improvement, and expanded access (universal preschool). My primary focus is supporting multi-stakeholder, cross-sector collaborations with effective, agile development of powerful SaaS solutions to challenges in the public sector and its fertile but complex NGO ecosystem of partnerships. Where decisions are data-driven, these partnerships thrive; I appreciate being a key part of the processes that reliably deliver this condition to our clients.

Santa Barbara, California Area

Primary local area administrator and regional Hub lead for First 5 IMPACT program, supporting implementation of the Quality Counts California (QCC) Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) through child development program assessment; quality improvement; training and technical assistance; and evaluation.

San Francisco, California

Over 11 years working at First 5 San Francisco; first, on the city-funded Preschool for All (PFA) initiative, through 2016; then, on the First 5 California IMPACT Program as Regional Training & Technical Assistance Hub Coordinator for an 8-county collaborative of over 20 participating agencies. Applying a strong emphasis on relationship-based approaches to early childhood education program administration, Matthew supported positive and solutions-driven collaboration between First 5 and its 75+ PFA partner agencies, operating over 150 preschools, on the initiative’s financing, policymaking, and design. He “cut his teeth” in the field beginning in 1996, when as a U.C. Santa Cruz undergraduate, during the codification of CalWORKs across California, he helped organize and record TANF-active families’ testimony that informed local implementation. Matthew spent over 6 years in Alternative Payment Program (APP) case management and California State Preschool Program (CSPP) contract and other municipal subsidy administration in Sacramento, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties before joining the First 5 San Francisco team in 2006. After transition of the city-funded PFA intiative to a new administrator in 2016, Matthew stepped-into a regional coordinator role in support of the eight-county trainng and technical assistance collaboration funded by First 5 California, continuing in the role until moving his family to Santa Barbara in early-2018.

Bachelor Of Arts, Community Studies & Modern Literature, Honors

Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies

Journalism

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