Beginning in 1992, Doreen has
served the state as a Step-Ahead coordinator then began planning a
professional development effort that transitioned to the private
sector.
Doreen joined a small non-profit
organization in 1998 to continue that effort by creating a early
childhood professional certification process that included
professional standards, curriculum elements, "articulation" links
to Indiana universities and college education programs. The
process was vetted by a statewide network of stakeholders
including academic partners.
More recently, beginning in
2002, Doreen participated in a similar effort in conjunction with
Indiana School Age Care Consortium to create a professional
development system for after school workers. She has worked
extensively across the state as well as with the national
community of practitioners and advocates for professional
standards, career ladders and appropriate compensation for
education professionals.
David
Weinschrott, PhD
Research Director
After a
career with Hudson Institute and United Way of Central Indiana,
David Weinschrott has joined ProDev Associates, Ltd. as a
principal to continue community and policy oriented research and
planning efforts. At Hudson Institute, David served as
Research Fellow from 1986-1996 and Senior Fellow for April 2003 to
July 2004 when the institute closed. He served as Director
of Planning, Research and Information Systems at the United Way of
Central Indiana from 1996 to 2003. He was Assistant Professor of
Economics at Indiana University, Purdue University at Indianapolis
(IUPUI), from 1978 to 1986 and President of Health Econometrics,
Inc. from 1985 to 2002.
At Hudson
David worked mainly on health policy studies, but also on
workforce development, state and regional economic development and
analysis of social services systems. At United Way he managed
programs in the areas of workforce development, older adults,
persons with disabilities. He also managed a survey study of the
Hispanic Population in Marion County. At IUPUI David taught
Health Economics, Econometrics and elementary economics, and also
completed a National Science Foundation study on Multi-product
Cost Analysis in Local Hospital Markets for Indiana in 1983.
