Dr. Nina Barrios Dr. Nina B. Barrios holds a Ph.D. in program evaluation and measurement from Florida State University and has over 25 years of experience conducting evaluations and policy analysis in a wide range of education and human services programs. Her specific areas of expertise include program evaluation, performance management, quality improvement, strategic planning, and staff development. She has worked in the private sector as an evaluation consultant for 15 years and is an experienced administrator in state government where she held managerial positions for over 10 years. Her extensive consulting and management experience has included K-12 education, early care and education, early intervention, child abuse and neglect prevention, child welfare, substance abuse, mental health, developmental disabilities, juvenile justice, economic self-sufficiency services, aging, health, and Medicaid. Dr. Barrios has served as project director for numerous statewide evaluation studies, both state funded and federally funded. She is particularly skilled at designing Web-based data collection strategies to gather a wide range of process and outcome data. Assisting project staff to develop their own capacity for evaluation is a particular interest. 
Colleen Campbell Bozard Colleen Campbell Bozard is a Masters level graduate from Long Island University in Community Mental Health and has over sixteen years administrative experience in the nonprofit field, predominantly in the field of family violence. Most recently she served as Executive Director of The Nurturing Center, a treatment facility in Columbia SC for child abuse and neglect that provides family centered services. Ms. Bozard provided the organization with critical leadership during a period of significant organizational change. Prior to The Nurturing Center, Colleen was Executive Director of NEWHOUSE in Kansas City, MO, a comprehensive domestic violence program. She was responsible for administrative oversight of a nonprofit providing seven programs and a budget of nearly one million dollars. During her tenure, she provided key leadership throughout the state on issues related to domestic violence, including the development of a curriculum on family-centered care for the Department of Social Services and the development of a domestic violence network that spanned two states and included six separate service providers. Colleen has also worked as lead consultant for nonprofit and government agencies in the states of South Carolina, Florida and Missouri in the areas of organizational development, community partnerships, strategic planning, grant writing, program development, needs assessment, evaluation and monitoring, and technical assistance. Her fields of expertise include child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, alcohol and drug prevention and treatment, high risk youth, maternal and child health, parent education, and gender specific services. She has been instrumental in facilitating a number of community partnerships in planning and evaluation, provided key leadership in needs assessment development, and orchestrated comprehensive organizational planning. Colleen has written a wide range of training curricula, and facilitated training sessions for a variety of audiences, including nonprofit staff, Board members, community groups, parents, governmental leaders, and corporate employees.
Dr. Barbara D. Dilligard
Dr. Barbara D. Dilligard is President and CEO of a management consultant firm, Karaton Services, and is the former Deputy Superintendent for the Charleston County School District in Charleston, South Carolina. Under her leadership and guidance the district received recognition for school improvement under the S. C. Palmetto Gold and Silver School award for school improvement; a successful military magnet middle school was initiated, the first public military middle school in the nation; and the district received many state and national recognitions for distinction. Dr. Dilligard has extensive experience in strategic planning, human resource management, curriculum development, organizational development, grant writing and performance evaluation. She received her doctorate degree from Vanderbilt University, an MBA from The Citadel Military College of South Carolina, and a BS degree in Mathematics from Johnson C. Smith University. Dr. Dilligard is certified by the Center for Creative Leadership in Benchmark®, a 360N performance appraisal instrument; trained by William Cook of the Cambridge Group in Strategic Planning; certified in Student Team Learning (cooperative learning strategy) from Johns Hopkins University; and certified by the SC State Department of Education in the Superintendency, principalship, supervision and administration. She has authored and co-authored a number of competitive federal, state and foundation grants totaling more than $70 million for the school district, non-profit organizations, health agencies, and other community-based organizations. Dr. Dilligard continues to be a favored speaker and consultant for a number of organizations and businesses.
 Dr. Katherine H. Duffy Dr. Katherine Duffy has extensive experience in community and organizational planning. As Executive Director of the 12 county Palmetto-Lowcountry Health Systems Agency, she was responsible for the development of long range and annual plans for the 12 county area. These plans highlighted the health needs of children, families, and communities. The agency also established benchmarks so the counties could measure their progress. Dr. Duffy has assisted communities throughout South Carolina in identifying needs and developing plans to meet those needs as well as objectives by which they could evaluate outcomes. Comprehensive community studies have been performed for the counties of Anderson, Abbeville, Charleston, Dorchester, Berkeley, and Georgetown. Dr. Duffy has also developed plans for neighborhoods and community organizations. She completed a strategic plan for the 22 poor neighborhoods that comprise the Charleston Enterprise Community and communities in the City of North Charleston. Dr. Duffy has developed strategic plans for numerous organizations including Family Services, Inc. and the Children's Center in Columbia. Dr. Duffy is very familiar with the needs of children in South Carolina. Dr. Duffy has helped develop and evaluate education and mental health programs for children. She has analyzed the foster care and child abuse system for the South Carolina Department of Social Services and the United Way of South Carolina. Her work includes an assessment of the roles of DHEC and the Department of Education in comprehensive school health programs for children. Dr. Duffy has assisted the City of Charleston in the development of a system for promoting children's health. and has served on the statewide Success By Six Advisory Committee. 
Holli Emore, CFRE Holli Emore, President of Emore Development Resources, has for more than a decade maintained a high level of activity in regional community affairs, including direction of city festivals, writing, speaking, grants research and writing, and training. She has led many successful fund raising efforts, while guiding clients in developing their own existing assets: donors, volunteers and organizational ability. As Director of Membership for the Columbia Museum of Art (1993-1996), Ms. Emore created and managed a new membership program which resulted in a 45% increase in museum members, with an accompanying increase in dues income. She assisted that museum in its $9 million capital campaign, and coordinated annual giving drives which reached new record levels. Ms. Emore has guided many churches, dioceses, and other non-profits through the demanding task of mounting a capital campaign as a senior consultant for the fund raising firm Holliman Associates, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Through Holliman Associates she has conducted feasibility studies, facilitated organizational development, managed capital campaigns (raising nearly $7 million in 1996-7). Since launching Emore Development Resources in Columbia, Ms. Emore has assisted a variety of clients, including small startup nonprofits, state agencies, and churches, with needs ranging from board facilitation and training, to capital campaigns, development plans and assessment, and marketing strategies. A strong ability to organize and manage projects has involved Ms. Emore with numerous leaders of business and government, and her outgoing, friendly manner has made her a favorite with hundreds of volunteers. A well-rounded background gives her a wealth of diverse experience and skills upon which to draw when advising clients, from marketing and management issues, to special events and publicity, to long-range planning and cultivation of large donor prospects. 
Dr. Diane H. Harwell Mrs. Harwell is on faculty at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching degree in English, an Educational Specialist degree in educational administration, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in educational administration. Mrs. Harwell has an extensive perspective on education in South Carolina from the following levels: high school, district office, state, and higher education. She has worked in schools and districts which were considered low performing, has conducted professional development in such schools and districts, has assisted many schools across South Carolina with developing school improvement plans, and has worked with graduate students to improve the achievement levels in their schools. Further, the research conducted for her dissertation was in schools with compensatory programs. Mrs. Harwell also conducted research for the South Carolina Policy Center related to economically disadvantaged and low achieving students and to compensatory programs in South Carolina which were considered Ahigh flying.@ She conducted an evaluation of the Writing Improvement Network for 1992-1993 and again for 1993-1994. She has served as a research observer in low achieving schools in South Carolina for the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration Implementation, South East Regional Vision for Education (SERVE). Most recently, she served as a member of an external team for MGT of America using the ERT (External Review Team) Report Instrument to conduct an evaluation of the Intervention and Assistance Team in a middle school in South Carolina. Her strengths lie in observing and collecting data, analyzing qualitative data, conducting focus group interviews, and writing final reports.
Dr. Pam Imm Dr. Pamela S. Imm received her Ph.D. in clinical/community psychology from The University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. She has extensive experience in the areas of training, technical assistance, and program evaluation of prevention and intervention programs/strategies. In 1999, she co-authored the initial Getting to Outcomes (GTO) system initially published by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). This included the development of a training component that has been provided to members of over 250 community coalitions throughout the United States who were recipients of the Drug-Free Communities Support Program. Since that time, Dr. Imm and her colleagues have further developed and implemented training and technical assistance on the GTO Model. In 2003, she worked with The University of South Carolina and the RAND Corporation in California to develop and refine a comprehensive GTO training and technical assistance model funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This included implementation and monitoring of technical assistance modules provided to community coalitions and their programs. Dr. Imm continues to provide training and technical assistance to a variety of local, state, and national agencies, including the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Department of Education (national and state levels), the Community Anti Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) and the Centers for the Advancement of Prevention Technologies (CAPTS) located throughout the United States. This includes training and technical assistance on models of evaluation, strategies for coalition building, and methods for how coalitions can provide mentoring to newly forming coalitions. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Imm has also provided training and technical assistance to private foundations (non-profit, community foundations and private companies that serve clients in the areas of community health, community development, and community research. Dr Imm is also a certified specialist in the Concern Based Adoption Model (CBAM) developed to assess utilization of new and innovative methods. In 2006, Dr. Imm and her colleagues worked with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a written resource to plan, implement, and evaluate environmental strategies to reduce underage drinking. The book, Preventing Underage Drinking: Using the Getting to Outcomes Model and the Strategic Prevention Framework to Achieve Results, was co-authored by Join Together from Boston University, and published by the RAND Corporation. It includes evidence-based environmental strategies to prevent underage drinking and tools along with worksheets for planning, implementing, and evaluating the environmental strategies. A recent work co-authored by Dr. Imm is the Getting to Outcomes Model with Developmental Assets. This document, published by the Search Institute, includes specific strategies for how to best plan, implement, and evaluate the integration of developmental assets at the program and community levels. Training modules on the GTO-Assets model are available and are being implemented throughout the United States. Dr. Imm worked with SAMHSA to finalize the Strategic Prevention Framework that is integrated as a best practice model for prevention and intervention within several federal agencies.  Wanda J. Pearson Wanda holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Central Florida and is a Certified Addictions Prevention Professional. She has over 10 years’ administrative experience in the not-for-profit, public sectors, and private. Areas of expertise include program development, project management, program evaluation, strategic planning, business plan development, grant writing, and substance abuse prevention. Wanda has served as project director on numerous federally-funded, community-based programs for substance abuse, violence, and HIV prevention where her demonstrated ability to formulate questions, synthesize information, and communicate ideas consistently led to the development and implementation of programs that produced tangible, practical outcomes for individuals and communities. 
Pamela Petersen-Baston, MPA, CAP, CAPP Pamela Petersen-Baston has a BSW and a MPA from the University of South Florida in Tampa. She has worked 26 years in the alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse field. During the first 8 years, she worked in every modality of a local community-based addiction prevention and treatment agency from school-based prevention to methadone maintenance and every modality in between. Following this experience, she worked for 7 years in the office of the Single State Authority (SSA) for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, initially as Florida's National Prevention Network Coordinator (NPN), and 4 years as the State Director for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services (SSA). She left the state agency in 1994 and now provides consulting and grant-writing services on local, state and national levels. She has successfully obtained $100 million in grant funding for states and community-based organizations and provides consultation and training services to substance abuse prevention and treatment providers; federal, state and local governmental systems; public housing authorities, school systems and others. Most recently Pam was one of the consultants selected nationally to conduct state by state technical reviews of states’ substance abuse prevention systems as part of a Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) technical review initiative and is one of a handful of national consultants to provide Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment (SAPT) Block Grant training to states. She is a Certified Addictions Professional (CAP), and a Certified Addictions Prevention Professional (CAPP). Sherri T. Reynolds
Sherri Reynolds has over 25 years experience in school district administration and as an adjunct university professor, specializing in health education, health services and prevention programming for safe and orderly schools. She established and supervised one school district’s grant department for five years which brought in over $12 million in federal, state and foundation grants annually. Supervisory duties include budget management, staff supervision, needs assessment evaluation, short and long range strategic planning, facilitating trainings and department publications as well as being a liaison with community agencies, Juvenile Justice and Law Enforcement.
Sherri has written over 100 grants and has directly managed 60% of them. She currently serves in a local County Commission appointed role to review and award over $8 million in county funds for health and human service community projects. Since 1989 she has served as a grant reviewer for various state and local grants such as Florida Department of Education grants (Learn and Serve America, Tobacco Prevention and Safe and Drug Free Schools, Title IV and Title II), Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (Prevention and Diversion, Invest in Children and Delinquency grants), and Florida Department of Health HIV/AIDS Prevention grants. In addition, Mrs. Reynolds has served as an independent grant evaluator of federal and state grant projects, such as the Florida Technology Challenge grant. Leadership roles have included Chair of a County Juvenile Justice Council, President of the Florida School Health Association, President of the American Heart Association, Director of the Health Educator Section of the American School Health Association (ASHA) as well as Legislative Chair and Executive Board Member of ASHA and numerous Board of Directors positions (Community Blood Bank, American Lung Association, local Coalition of Substance Abuse to name a few). Mrs. Reynolds holds a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from the University of Florida in Gainesville, a Master’s degree in Health Education from Nova University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and six doctoral hours in management and supervision from the University of South Florida in Tampa. She is a licensed Registered Nurse, a Certified Health Educator and a fellow of the American School Health Association. She is the recipient of the American School Health Association’s Health Educator of the Year Award and their Distinguished Service Award recognizing contribution to the profession of school health. Sherri was also a co-recipient of the Healthy Me Award from Metropolitan Life Insurance, New York City, NY. In addition to grant consultant work (writer and evaluator), Sherri has co-authored several textbooks {Step by Step to Peer Health Education (ETR Publishers) and Health Teacher Resource Handbook (Krause International Publishing} and numerous journal articles on substance abuse and violence prevention, needs assessment and risk taking behavior in the Florida School Health Journal, the Journal for School Health and other professional journals. She has lectured at over 100 conferences/workshops (local, state and national) on a variety of topics ranging from health education issues to grant writing to management techniques. Her winning smile, engaging personality and contagious enthusiasm enables Sherri Reynolds to work very well with diverse populations. As one principal writes, “her ability, personality, attention to detail, and 100% commitment have resulted in a lengthy list of achievements.” The former Chief of Police of the community in which she lives sums it up with his comment, “she has a broad base of experience upon which to draw in dealing with difficult situations and an energy level which would quickly tire most people…but perhaps her strongest asset is her ability to get people and organizations with diverse and sometimes conflicting viewpoints to work together toward a common goal.” 
Dr. Katherine “Casey” Schnepel Dr. Katherine “Casey” Schnepel earned a Masters Degree and a Doctorate in Education Research from the University of South Carolina. She also earned a Bachelors Degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina. Casey has over twenty years experience in classroom research and evaluation. She taught graduate level research and measurement courses as an adjunct professor in the College of Education at the University of South Carolina. She worked several years as a Research Specialist in the Staff Development Office of Richland County School District One in Columbia, South Carolina. While in that office she coordinated the Teacher Incentive Program and the Principal Incentive Program for the District. Casey has worked for several years as a consultant with the Anderson Research Group in Columbia. Her work with that group has been primarily data collection focusing on classroom observation, surveying, and interviewing. She worked for three years with Palmetto Educational Research Solutions, Inc. of Columbia as a member of the evaluation team of the Safe Schools and Healthy Students grant in Richland County School District One in Columbia. Casey also worked as a research associate with Insite, Inc. of Columbia. Casey enjoys interacting with adults and young people and she does it very well. She is especially adept at working with diverse populations. She also enjoys using the logic and structure of the Scientific Method in research and evaluation. Casey has co-authored a reference book, Educators’ Handbook on Effective Testing, (Myles Friedman, Ed.), published by the Institute for Evidence-based Decision-making in Education. She also co-authored a journal article, Powerful Learning Environments: The Critical Link Between School and Classroom Cultures, Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk. 8 (4). 391-418. 
Catherine J. Snyder Catherine Snyder is an independent consultant who conducts research, evaluates programs, and develops large-scale assessment systems. She holds a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology with a Master’s Equivalent in Statistics from the University of Akron. Catherine has extensive experience in designing research studies and analyzing the results of statewide educational programs. She has conducted and published the following statewide evaluations of strategies used by schools to impact the academic performance of youth: "Effectiveness of South Carolina’s Alternative Schools," "The impact of Reduced Class-Size on Student Performance," and "The Effects of School-to-Work and Career and Technology Schools-Within-Schools on Student Achievement.” She has also conducted on-going research on South Carolina's Early Childhood Development Program and a five year innovative program for improving the academic performance of at-risk students. Components of these evaluations relied heavily on in-depth needs analyses, development and utilization of qualitative research instruments (e.g., case tudies, interviews, surveys, and focus groups), as well as complex quantitative data analyses (ANCOVA, regression analyses, factor analysis, etc.). Catherine has many years of experience designing instruments for qualitative research (interview protocol, survey instruments, questionnaires, structured observations) that meet technical quality standards. She has also established and maintained student level databases containing demographic information, test results, and education program participation components. She has conducted all data needs, reporting requirements, collection processes, data analysis, evaluations, and reporting requirements. Catherine has conducted numerous comprehensive literature reviews and worked with content area advisory committees to establish research questions and evaluation design that maximize reliability and validity. Catherine has developed reports and presented the results and outcomes of research projects to audiences statewide to inform policy decisions. She has presented the results and outcomes of these research projects to the State Board of Education, the Education Oversight Committee, the State School-to-Work Council, and members of numerous governing boards. She communicated research results and their implications in an understandable manner to state legislators, state advisory committees, and individuals from state agencies and private organizations. Catherine was responsible for the development of the PACT ELA statewide assessments and worked on the development of the PACT mathematics and BSAP science assessments. She has also trained classroom teachers (kindergarten through 12th grade) to write assessment items in multiple formats. She provided technical assistance, training, and staff development to teachers and school/district personnel in the development, utilization, and evaluation of performance-based assessments and portfolios. Catherine has also conducted numerous workshops and training sessions for implementing the statewide testing program at the local level. She also assisted districts with problems related to the administration of local testing programs and with psychometric concerns related to interpretation of test data. In addition, Catherine developed training manuals and videotapes for school/district personnel involved with statewide testing programs. During her tenure at the South Carolina Department of Education, Catherine managed several innovative grants, monitored goal attainment, and conducted appropriate reporting of results. She initiated a process for approving innovative courses and established accountability procedures for educational demonstration-site projects. The outcomes from these projects guided the development of new statewide educational policy and assessment systems. Catherine has also written grant proposals and conducted evaluations of grant activities for a local school district. Catherine has submitted Requests for Proposals, established evaluation criteria, and assessed contractor’s qualification for statewide programs. She has been responsible for full contract management, strategic planning, interfacing with private industry representatives, and reporting annual achievement results to the public. Shannon Strarace Shannon Starace earned a Master's degree in Demography from Florida State University's Center for Demography and Population Health and has 20 years of experience working in the business, government, educaton and nonprofit sectors. Her areas of expertise include research and analysis, program development, grant writing, program evaluations, marketing strategies, public-private partnerships, teacher training programs, and strategic planning. Her career began as a Legislative Analyst for the Florida Legislature and this work experience provided her with a broad understanding of the interrelationships between local, state and national levels of government and she gained valuable insight regarding how legislation impacts businesses, nonprofits, and school districts. Over the past five years she has worked in the private sector as an independent consultant and program evaluator for the Florida Department of Education, Florida Department of Health, World Class Schools of Leon County, Inc., Optimal Performance, Inc., Minority Alliance for Advocating Community Awareness and Action, Inc., and MORE HEALTH, Inc. Shannon has served as a consultant for the Florida Department of Education’s Office of Healthy Schools and the Food and Nutrition Management Office on projects involving teacher training evaluations, process evaluations, and strategic planning. Working for the Florida Department of Education has provided her with the opportunity to conduct over 50 school site visits throughout the state of Florida during the past two years. Shannon’s consulting work with nonprofit organizations has focused on program development, strategic planning, coalition building, and grant writing. Her consulting work has involved the following topic areas: health education and assessment, physical education and assessment, HIV/AIDS and teen pregnancy prevention education, oral health education, nutrition, physical activity and fitness programs, after-school programs, mentoring, and school district policies regarding wellness and student health services. Shannon’s main area of interest is in evaluating policies, programs and grants that improve the school health environment, as well as the physical and mental health outcomes of youth. Her understanding of the Coordinated School Health Program and the Next Generation of Sunshine State Standards has been valuable in designing evaluation studies, managing projects, and developing programs.
 Dr. Patricia Ann (Annie) Wright Dr. Annie Wright earned her doctoral degree in Clinical-Community Psychology at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Her dissertation focusesd on components of effective high school drop-out prevention projects. Annie has always had an interest in prevention and promotion work with youth and has excelled already in consultation and evaluation with social service organizations. Annie graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, with a Psychology major and a minor in Urban Studies. Her Honors research was on school-based interventions for pregnant and parenting high school students. Immediately following her undergraduate studies, Annie led an evaluation project for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis. During her graduate training at USC, Annie sought out multiple opportunities to gain hands-on evaluation experience. She has served as an evaluation consultant for a range of organizations, including Lutheran Family Services, Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, SC, and the South Carolina Recovering Professionals Program. She has studied closely with the developers of the Getting to OutcomesTM system and currently works as a technical assistance provider on a statewide CDC–funded trial of the effectiveness of GTO in reducing underage drinking. |
