Overall Contacts:
Deborah Loesch-Griffin, Ph.D.
Turning Point, Inc.
P.O. Box 1028
Virginia City, NV 89440
775-843-2275 trnpt@aol.com
Joanne Everts (everts.joanne@gmail.com)
Elizabeth Christiansen (elizabethc@unr.edu)
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And here is even more about each of our team members:
Deborah Loesch-Griffin, Ph.D., Owner/Founder/Director Turning Point, Inc.
Deborah Loesch-Griffin earned her Education Specialist degree in Evaluation (1986) and doctorate degree in Educational Psychology and Child Development from Stanford University in 1987. For the past twenty years she has owned and operated a small business, Turning Point, Inc. that works in partnership with organizations and communities to convene conversations, serve as a social artist for designing and facilitating integrated spaces and events for community groups, and act as a catalyst for change.
TPI’s approaches include program development, management and evaluation; facilitation, and mentoring for non-profits and for-profits and community coalitions in organizational development, leadership, and human resources.Deborah Loesch-Griffin is a Say-It-Straight (SIS) Master Trainer and is also a Fellow of Creating the Future.
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Dr. Joanne Everts has a PhD in Child Development from Texas Woman’s University and has worked in Early Childhood Education for over 30 years. She developed the Early Childhood Education Program for the Washoe County School District ( 1995-2001), and was director of the Washoe County School District, Child and Family Services from 2009-2011. As Director of Child & Family Services, she oversaw 25 early education sites, directed 5 family resource centers as well as the Children in Transition program. She provided leadership in the development of a statewide system for early childhood assessment through the Nevada Prek Program, providing training and mentoring to program sites across the state. After retiring from the Washoe County School District in 2011, she has been director of the nonprofit, Community HELPS (Healthy Early Learning and Professional Services. In this capacity she has facilitated several Nevada counties in developing their Early Childhood Implementation Plans. She has also provided mentoring and quality improvement services to preschool programs in several rural counties.
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Dr. Elizabeth Christiansen has 16 years of experience in program evaluation, working with numerous local, state and national evaluation projects in the areas of education and youth development, health and wellness, and community and family services. Dr. Christiansen received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2002. She has been with the Center for Program Evaluation (CPE) at the University of Nevada, Reno for 14 years and has served as the Director for the past five years. CPE has been providing high quality, comprehensive professional evaluation services to a variety of organizations at the local, state, regional, and national level since 1999. CPE’s mission is to provide an alternative to traditional evaluation services by working in partnership with those who strive to improve the quality of life in their communities. CPE uses an approach called partnership evaluation, which represents a conscious shift away from evaluator as “expert” and acknowledges the effectiveness of the evaluation is based on the combined expertise of all key stakeholders, including program providers, agency representatives, staff, and participants.Through her work with the Center for Program Evaluation, she has years of experience working with schools and school districts across the state in such as projects as the State of Nevada School-to-Careers program, the Nevada State Parent Information and Resource Center (PIRC), 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and Title II, Title II-A, Title V, and Title VII programming in Washoe County School District. Furthermore, she has worked with University of Nevada Cooperative Extension faculty for many years evaluating their Childcare Provider Professional Development Workshops and the Family Storyteller curriculum. Other early childhood education evaluation projects Dr. Christiansen has worked with include the UNR Early Head Start Self-Assessment, the Classroom on Wheels (C.O.W.) Bus Evaluation, and the Nevada Early Childhood Training Project.
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