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Dionne Barnes-Proby

Project Associate

Santa Monica Office

Education

D.P.A. (in progress) in public administration, University of La Verne; M.S.W. in policy, planning, and administration, Loma Linda University; B.A. in psychology and black studies, Pitzer College

Overview

Biography

Dionne Barnes-Proby is a senior research project manager at the RAND Corporation and has been a child welfare social worker for many years. Her experience includes direct clinical practice with at-risk children as a foster care case worker as well as research including juvenile justice, education, health, welfare reform, and substance abuse. Barnes-Proby has been the lead project manager for several research projects at RAND. For example, she recently managed the national evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a very high profile study intended to identify effective programs for the primary purpose of helping to direct the expenditures of federal dollars on effective programming in the future. Barnes-Proby also has expertise in qualitative methodology including: developing data collection instruments and protocols, conducting in-depth field and phone interviews, facilitating focus groups, coding, analyzing, and synthesizing data (using 17 SPSS and Atlas.ti), and managing field operations. Other specific projects include the implementation and evaluation of CBITS for youth in foster care, an evaluation of welfare reform throughout California, an assessment of juvenile justice programs in Los Angeles County, and an assessment of young homeless women transitioning into adulthood.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches
Improving Education for Incarcerated Adults and Juveniles
CBITS for Youth in Foster Care

Honors & Awards

Impact Award, Lisa Jaycox and Dana Schultz, RAND
On the Spot Award, Suzanne Wenzel, RAND

Child Policy

Biography

Dionne Barnes-Proby is a Senior Research Project Manager at RAND and has been a child welfare social worker for many years. Her experience includes direct clinical practice with at-risk children as a foster care case worker as well as research including juvenile justice, education, health, welfare reform, and substance abuse. Barnes-Proby has been the lead project manager for several research projects at RAND. For example, she recently managed the national evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a very high profile study intended to identify effective programs for the primary purpose of helping to direct the expenditures of federal dollars on effective programming in the future. Barnes-Proby also has expertise in qualitative methodology including: developing data collection instruments and protocols, conducting in-depth field and phone interviews, facilitating focus groups, coding, analyzing, and synthesizing data (using 17 SPSS and Atlas.ti), and managing field operations. Other specific projects include the implementation and evaluation of CBITS for youth in foster care, an evaluation of welfare reform throughout California, an assessment of juvenile justice programs in Los Angeles County, and an assessment of young homeless women transitioning into adulthood.