Bio-Sketch and Highlights: Jametta Yvonne Lilly

Jametta Lilly cell 313 510-3206 jamettal@gmail.com B 1-15ECDv3

Jametta Lilly is the recent Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of

the Wayne Children’s Healthcare Access Program (WCHAP). WCHAP Inc. is the 2nd CHAP model in the state of Michigan that strives to improve equity,

access, quality and health out-comes for children eligible for Medicaid by

promoting the Pediatric Medical Home Model. WCHAP collaborates with primary care practices, mental health and child/family agencies along with

Medicaid health plans, head starts and the State in advancing best practices,

policies and system change to reduce health disparities. Since its inception in 2011, she has ushered WCHAP into becoming a sustainable independent non-

profit, successfully launched evidence based programs in asthma and childhood

obesity, supported pediatric practices in applying higher standards and engaged hundreds of professionals and parents to learn and work together to improve child

/family health. At WCHAP she created and launched the Perinatal to Pediatric

Transitions Think Tank to strengthen policies in the pre-birth to age five continuums with membership from local and state public health and hospitals.

She is a passionate and skilled change agent that has provided leadership as an administrator or consultant to local agencies, foundations, state and federal government programs. Her collaborative program design and system building has resulted in more than 20 innovative start-ups and initiatives in varied human service systems and the private sector. Jametta is a long-term champion in early childhood/family development and maternal-child health integration and system building. She is an original member of the Great Start Collaborative Wayne serving as chair or co-chair of the Pediatric Family Health Action Team, now repurposed as ‘Born Ready’ using Collective Impact approaches to improve birth outcomes. At WCHAP she hosted the national Help Me Grow program, participated in design thinking for the quality rating improvement system, expanding home visiting and initiated partnerships with head start/early head start and early care providers. Foundations and stakeholders frequently include her in task groups as a result of her multi-sector experiences and efforts to ‘connect the dots’ between child health and school readiness and success. In 2013 Jametta received the ‘Fierce Heart” Award by the state Early Childhood Investment Corporation, ECIC, for her visionary leadership and accomplishments in early childhood, maternal-child health and program development.

She has worked in mental health as a Director of Prevention, and spent eleven years as the Special Projects Consultant for the Detroit Wayne County Mental Health Agency (now Authority) where she designed and managed multiple innovative early intervention programs and strategies. Passionate about equity and improving birth outcomes she was the consultant for the Detroit and Wayne County Health Departments Infant Mortality Reduction grant where her research report led to the creation of the Infant Vitality Action Network, IVAN. IVAN augmented the State of Michigan’s infant mortality work in the eleven communities with the highest mortality rates and was recognized by the National Office of Minority Health. Jametta has been an early childhood evaluator and program improvement consultant for local and national organizations. She was promoted to lead consultant for technical assistance with HHS Region IV and V Head Start and was a trainer in Early Head Start. She also served as the training and education director with the largest Head Start grantee in the State of Michigan. At the W.K. Kellogg Foundation she was the evaluator for Native American grantees in the Birth to Three Program and the program consultant in the SPARKs 0-5 initiative in eight states. She has consistently worked to advance cultural competence at the practice and policy levels. In addition to her career in child-family services she has experience in workforce development, served on Mayoral business development committees and owned two businesses with her husband Leon Lilly to address the digital divide and provided business and cultural exchange in West Africa and the Caribbean.

Jametta is an honors graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia where she majored in child development. She has extensive graduate education in human development and was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Wayne State University. She is completing a Master’s in Public Administration at the University of Michigan concentrating in non-profit leadership.

Currently Jametta is the President and Principal Consultant for Dynamic Solutions for Change, Inc. a newly formed consultant group of talented experts committed to energizing innovation and excellence across a wide domain of services.

As a mission driven professional, Jametta continues to provide her vision, skills and gift for catalyzing change and meaningful outcomes for individuals, organizations and communities in Michigan and nationally.

Bio-Sketch and Highlights: Jametta Yvonne Lilly

Jametta Lilly cell 313 510-3206 jamettal@gmail.com B 1-15ECDv3

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Early Child Development, Maternal-Child Health, Behavioral Health Seasoned and dynamic change agent, administrator and consultant with a demonstrated track record of strategic innovation and success in program development, grantmanship, organizational improvement, evaluation and collaborative leadership in systems of government, non-profits, foundations and the private sector.

1. Exemplary expertise in the development, implementation and evaluation of child-family program start-

ups, leveraging private and public funding, visioning and solution building with diverse constituencies

2. Successful grant writing for $11ML in singular and multi-agency initiatives and projects. Accomplished fund

developer, contract and risk management, and fiscal oversight for annual budgets up to $3.5ML

3. Politically astute and able to provide executive leadership, strategic planning, supervision of direct and

functional human resources and managing multifaceted projects and metrics

4. Exceptional diplomatic and negotiating skills in building collaboration and relationships to address equity

and other complex issues with varied partners in corporate, government and non-profit sectors

5. Technology savvy in server and web-based communication, and data systems development

6. Adept in multi-tasking, promotions, branding, multimedia presentations and coordinating large events

HIGHLIGHTS

WAYNE CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGRAM. Led county wide planning initiative, content development, research, group facilitation, grant writing, ‘return on investment’ scenarios and building the network of local and state health, child-family programs, associations, foundations and systems level stakeholders. Successful grant writing resulting in more than $2.5ML from Foundations to launch WCHAP as the 2nd medical home implementation pilot to advance Equity, Access and Quality for Medicaid enrolled children.

DETROIT WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AGENCY developed ‘Special Projects’ Unit from $50,000 to $8ML in new child/family programs including Early On and the MI Post Adoption Services System, expanded partnerships and collaboration with foundations and non-traditional partners; Program development and funding for the first Technical Assistance Program, EOTAP , to train parents as partners in clinical settings. Represented COO and CEO on state task groups. Certified in George Town Cultural Competency Model.

DETROIT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROMOTION AND WAYNE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. Recruited to lead and facilitate multi-prong strategies which increased enrollment in Medicaid programs serving women and children, co-created the Pathway Center, the first centralized intake for the City. Advanced maternal-infant health provider quality improvement and gained state and federal recognition for IVAN, the Infant Vitality Action Network, IVAN, for reducing African American Infant Mortality and Morbidity.

W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION, PROJECT CONSULTANT 0-5 PROGRAMS, recruited by Foundation’s Lead Program Director replacing a larger consulting firm. Provided innovation and timely deliverables in the $43ML SPARK Initiative including grant management support, program development and technical assistance to WKKF directors and grantees in eight states from project startup phase to implementation. Competitively selected as the Program Evaluator for Native American grantees in the Pre-Birth to Age Three project in three states.

FEDERAL REGION IV AND V HEAD START TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, LEAD CONSULTANT, EMPRISE DESIGNS- Health, Governance and Management Lead. Assisted in recruitment, training and coordination of consultants working with high risk grantees. Planner and consultant in ’ First Wave’ of Early Head Starts. Coordinated first Management Institute for boards of directors, Community Action Agency staff and parent leaders from six states. Led ‘turn around teams’ and made recommendations at Regional meetings in Atlanta and Chicago.

CITY OF DETROIT HEAD START GRANTEE. Training and Technical Assistance Director for 400 city-wide staff receiving awards and was designated a ‘mentor’ for other Region V grantees. Served as interim Education Director creating a CDA program with area’s largest community college and convened multiple conferences including serving as program chair for Region V Head Start Conference with 2500 attendees from 5 states.