Senior Social Policy Researcher; Director, Summer Associate Program; Faculty, RAND School of Public Policy
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Dionne Barnes-Proby is a senior social policy researcher at RAND, director of its Summer Associate Program, and a faculty member at the RAND School of Public Policy. She was a child welfare social worker for several years.
Her experience includes direct clinical practice with at-risk youth and families, as well as research on policy issues that impact a wide range of vulnerable populations. She managed a national evaluation of interventions for children and families exposed to trauma, two statewide evaluations of the California's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs (CalWORKs), a survey of programs for incarcerated parents, a multi-state landscape analysis of progams for expectant transition age youth, an evaluation of a New York-based initiative to improve access to mental health services for low income residents, and an implementation and evaluation of Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) for youth in foster care.
Barnes-Proby has extensive experience providing technical assistance and designing and conducting implementation evaluations of juvenile justice, employment, correctional education, mental health, foster care, welfare reform, and substance use programs. Barnes-Proby has expertise in qualitative methods including conducting case studies; developing and assessing process measures; creating data collection instruments and protocols; conducting in-depth field and phone interviews; facilitating focus groups; coding, analyzing, and synthesizing data; and managing field operations. She holds a D.P.A. in public administration–collaborative governance from the University of La Verne, an M.S.W. in policy, planning, and administration from Loma Linda University, and a B.A. in psychology and Black studies from Pitzer College.
D.P.A. in public administration - collaborative governance, University of La Verne; M.S.W. in policy, planning, and administration, Loma Linda University; B.A. in psychology and black studies, Pitzer College
