Jessy Lyons, MA

Experience

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  The Center for Women and Families

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2013

  Supervisor of Community Education & Training

  Supervising community educators, prevention coordinators, and training coordinators; developing violence prevention programming and presentations, with a focus on primary and secondary prevention; evaluating the process and outcomes of all community education and professional training; preparing reports to agency leadership and funders; learning and applying violence prevention research to programmatic offerings; and serving as agency preceptor and field supervisor for graduate, professional, and intern students. Show less

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  Alteristic, Inc.

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Associate Director

  Provide leadership and oversight for operations of a leading national non-profit organization focused on domestic and sexual violence prevention. Responsibilities included providing programmatic vision and leadership in collaboration with the Executive Director; facilitating prevention trainings in a variety of settings; researching and developing program content and curricula; directing human resources, finance, IT, and administration; supervising operations and program staff; creating and maintaining organizational budget; developing all grants and contracts for federal and organizational funders; creating and facilitating agency policies and procedures; and evaluating program effectiveness. Show less

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  YWCA Greater Cincinnati

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  Director, Crisis Intervention & Housing

  Provide direction for the agency’s shelters, hotlines, and housing programs. Responsibilities included providing programmatic leadership for domestic violence service provision; designing and conducting trainings on domestic violence, trauma-informed care, and racial equity; creating and maintaining budget; monitoring outcomes and evaluating programs; supervising program managers; fostering strong community relationships; and providing leadership to collaborative initiatives.

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  Alteristic, Inc.

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2021

  Assistant Director, Research & Program Development

  Provide direction for the organization’s educational offerings, evaluation efforts, and training team. Responsibilities included supervising senior trainers; providing prevention training in a variety of settings, including military installations, campuses, and nonprofit organizations; writing program curricula, grant proposals, grant reports, and literature reviews; providing technical assistance to high-level federal, military, and business clients; managing projects for program development efforts; fostering strong client relationships; consulting on organizational strategic direction; and incorporating the latest prevention research. Show less

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  Jessy Lyons Consulting

  Jan 2021 - now

  Owner

  Provide expert support to health and human services organizations seeking to build capacity, plan and manage programs and services, secure funding, and evaluate their efforts. Responsibilities include conducting comprehensive evaluations and assessments, analyzing data, and providing actionable recommendations; developing and delivering customized training programs to enhance skills and knowledge; facilitating strategic planning, leadership development, and organizational change processes; leading program innovation, planning, implementation, and CQI efforts; developing funding, services, and project proposals; supporting collaboration and coalition-building efforts; developing organizational infrastructure and processes to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements; conducting literature reviews and meta-analyses and staying abreast of trends, research, and emerging practices in health and human services to inform evidence-based solutions; fostering partnerships with clients to build long-term relationships and support their ongoing success in planning, implementing, and evaluating programs and services; creating and disseminating reports, infographics, presentations, and other materials that provide community members and stakeholders with vital information; maintaining a flexible work schedule to accommodate clients' needs and project deadlines. Areas of expertise include health equity, trauma-informed care, harm reduction, intimate partner/domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, child abuse and neglect, substance use, housing and homelessness, restorative and anti-carceral justice approaches, primary and secondary prevention, youth violence and bullying, and participatory-action research Show less

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  CDC Foundation

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2022

  Regional Coordinator

  Provide leadership on health systems transformation related to COVID-19 activities across region IV of the US Department of Health and Human Services. Responsibilities included working with staff to develop and implement systems and processes for high-quality project management; managing a staff of 70+ field employees; providing job training to new staff; fostering relationships with subject matter experts, partners, and other stakeholders; and enhancing public health collaborations through the identification of appropriate local partners, qualitative and quantitative data collection, and dissemination of project findings. Show less

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  Strategic Prevention Solutions

  Jan 2022 - now

  Conduct evaluation activities on social and behavioral health initiatives. Responsibilities include providing expert consultation on process and outcome evaluation for violence prevention programming; conducting program evaluations on violence prevention and health equity; advising executive team on organizational growth, process flows, project management, and database administration; writing reports for funders and other key stakeholders; and designing work and evaluation plans for large-scale health and human services projects. Show less

  • Research Associate

    Jan 2021 - now

  • Business Development Manager

    Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
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  LMH Consulting

  Jan 2022 - now

  Chief Learning Officer

  Lead learning efforts that support violence prevention initiatives and health and human service agencies in meeting their goals; design courses and presentations that maximize learning transfer and skill development; facilitate engaging and effective trainings for a variety of audiences; support project management activities for learning programs.