Joseph Dear, Ed.D., President, Dear & Associates
Publisher & Editor, Healthy Living Quality Life
EDUCATION
- Ed.D. – Counselor Education – Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
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Dissertation: Investigated factors of success and failure among college students.
- MS – Community Mental Health – Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois An
interdisciplinary program requiring 300 hours internship and courses in community
analysis, research, psychology, theories in personality, counseling theory and practicum,
marriage and the family, and seminars in ethnicity and race and in community mental
health.
- BA – Psychology – Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dear & Associates Consulting Firm, Sacramento, California, PRESIDENT – 1974 to present
- Maintain a private consulting firm under which I provide occasional consultation to public and private entities, give speeches, present workshops, seminars and provide other professional services, specializing in personal (overall) wellness, program development and evaluation, staff training, research, and trouble shooting in areas of human services and education.
Publisher & Author, Healthy Living Quality Life: You have what it takes to have your desired balance – Designed to get results (2015)
Counselor educator, California State University, Sacramento (2011-present)
Motivation speaker; workshop/seminar presenter; professional consultant
Past Professional Experience
PROGRAM EVALUATOR & RESEARCHER for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, Sacramento, CA
– 1989 to 2009 RETIRED
- Coordinated all Pupil Services Credentialing Programs in California, including school counseling, school psychology, school social work and child welfare and attendance, which involved:
- updating competency standards, interpreting standards language, and maintaining contact with university training program coordinators for 107 administrative services, 32 school counseling, 26 school psychology and 10 school social work credential programs in California.
- answering policy questions for anyone, including persons in-state or out-of-state, school district officials, legislators or persons at the Commission Office;
- conducting on-site accreditation visits to California colleges and universities to make certain the programs were complying with standards set by the Commission.
- getting to know and being actively involved with all program coordinators and other faculty through occasional campus visits, professional conferences, workshops, seminars and other forums that provided such interaction.
- Conducted research studies that were directed at improving the pre-service training of California school educators: most recent studies were in the areas of pupil services, school violence, parent involvement and self-esteem, personal and social responsibility;
- Developed competency standards and other education policies: most recent standards developed were Standards of Quality and Effectiveness for Pupil Services, including school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, and child welfare and attendance providers.
Other past professional experiences
EDITOR, OBSERVER Newspapers, Sacramento, California
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR, San Juan Unified School District, Carmichael, California
COUNSELOR EDUCATOR, National University, Sacramento, CA
TRAINER/TROUBLE SHOOTER, Success Motivation Institute, Waco, Texas
ADMINISTRATOR, Sobriety Brings A Change (SBAC), a community-based organization
PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR between Sobriety Brings A Change (SBAC), THE OBSERVER
Newspapers, California State University, Sacramento and Sutter Hospitals
COUNSELOR – C. H. A. N. C. E. Program Complete Help and Assistance Necessary for a College
Education, Northern Illinois University
DIRECTOR – Project Upward Bound, DeKalb, Ill
Other Publications
- “Distance Learning – Future Certification Implications for Higher Education,” (unpublished White paper in collaboration with Dr. Craig Cashwell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (for CACREP Standards Review Committee) – September 2005
- Counseling in the Future – Chapter in book title: “Building Stronger School Counseling Programs: Bringing Futuristic Approaches into the Present,” by C.D. and Sharon K. Johnson (2002) Published by ERIC Counseling & student Services Clearinghouse and American School Counseling Association.
- “Creating Caring Relationships to Foster Academic Excellence, Recommendations For Reducing Violence in California Schools,” Final Report-October 1995, (ERIC Document Clearinghouse Numbers EA-027-164)
- “Creating Caring Relationships to Foster Academic Excellence, Recommendations For Reducing Violence in California Schools,” Executive Summary – October 1995, (ERIC Document Clearinghouse Numbers EA-027-165)
- Levels of Risk/Protective Factor Continuum – A one-page depiction of a risk-factor continuum and a protective-factor continuum (1995).
- “School Safety, Help Stop The Violence” National School Safety Center News Journal, the entire Issue – Winter 1994 (Articles written by Commission Advisory Panelists)
- “An Attack on School Violence,” by Joseph Dear, panel coordinator, Kathleen Scott, CSUS graduate student & Dorie Marshall, parent representative on panel.
- “Addressing School Violence as Part of Schools’ Educational Mission,” by Michael Furlong, Gale Morrison, and Joseph Dear, “Preventing School Failure,” (Spring 1994, Vol. 38, Number3, pp. 10 – 17)
- Literally hundreds of editorials and feature articles written during my tenure as editor of the OBSERVER NEWSPAPERS in Sacramento, CA
- Coordinated editorial activities and trained other editors, writers, photographers and other staff personnel; wrote features and editorials; compiled research and wrote articles for special editions and represented the paper at national, state and local functions.
- In addition to writing weekly editorials and feature articles for six and a half years, following are noteworthy projects I coordinated with The OBSERVER Newspapers:
- directed the development of numerous special editions of The OBSERVER Newspaper, including:
- ‘School and Career Guide’ – a 312-page publication featuring 12 different career areas
and a general information ‘survival guide’
- ‘Black Business in California’ – 88-pages and 108 page editions with exclusive features
on Black financial institutions and entrepreneurs, statistical data on Black economic life,
listings, graphs and government information on assistance for minority and small
businesses.
- ‘Minorities and Telecommunications,’ ‘Blacks in Medicine,’ ‘Top Cities in the U.S.
for Black Employment,’ ‘National Urban, League,’ ‘Law Day,’ and other specials
- ‘Fighting the War on Drugs in the Black Community’, an OBSERVER
Newspaper/Sutter Hospitals Health Education Project (contracted as Special Editor after
leaving the OBSERVER Newspapers)
- Produced and hosted “Our Cities,” a 30 minute public affairs television program on local CBS television station, during prime times, monthly on such topics as Black English, Assault on Illiteracy, Black Economics, Views from the Bench, Youth in Business, Politics and Religion, California Death Penalty, South African Apartheid, Workfare and Back to School Special.
- “Proposition 13 – A Blessing or A Curse” – An 8-page newsletter. An analysis of this Initiative designed to inform California’s public about the devastation of this initiative to education and human services in California – Joseph Dear, author & publisher (1978)
Professional Presentations
- “Evidence-based Counseling,” 3-hour presentation, American Counseling Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC – March 2000
- Keynote Speaker, “Violence Prevention and Student Self-esteem,” Second International Conference on Character Education, San Diego, CA – June 2000
- “ Violence Prevention Strategies Based on Results,” all-day Professional Development pre-convention workshop, American Counseling Association Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX – March 2001
- “Violence Prevention Strategies that Work,” American Counseling Association Annual Conference, All-day Pre-conference Learning Institute – New Orleans, LA March 2002
- “What School Psychologist Educators Need to Know,” California Association of School Psychologists, San Francisco, CA, March 2004
- Keynote Speaker & workshop presenter, “Making Change Happen,” Washington Counseling Association, Spokane, Washington, October 2004
- “Leadership – Characteristics, Function and Responsibilities of an Effective Leader,” Western Region Leadership Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico November 2004
- “Joining A Professional Organization – What’s in it for Me?” American Counseling Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2005
- “ Quality Wellbeing Through A Balanced Lifestyle – A Focus on Making It Happen,” all-day Professional Development pre-convention workshop, American Counseling Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada – March 2006
- Keynote Speaker – “Honoring Community: Creativity and Collaboration,” National Career Development Association’s Global Conference, Chicago, Illinois, July 2006
- “Formula for a Long, Quality Life” all-day Professional Development pre-convention workshop, California Counseling Association Conference, Santa Clara, CA, February 2009
- 2010 H.B. McDaniel Hall of Fame Inductee for Counseling, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Professional Involvement
- Member, Governing Council, (Board of Directors) American Counseling Association (2009 – 2012), member of the Executive Committee
- Delegate, representing ACA on the 20/20 Initiative: A Vision for the Future of Counseling. Thirty-one organizations collaborating to determine where counseling profession should be in the year 2020 (2012 to 2015)
- Member, Board of Directors, Council for Accreditation of Counseling and
Related Educational Programs (CACREP) (2002 to 2008)
- Chair, Western Region, American Counseling Association (2002 and 2004)
- Member (from the beginning) (1998-2002) Practice Research Network Committee, American
Counseling Association
- Member (1999 to 2002) Youth Violence Prevention Task Force, American Counseling Association
- Member (1996 to 2002) & Past Chair (1997-98 & 98-99) Research and Knowledge Committee, American Counseling Association
- Past President, California School Counseling Association
- Past President, California Association for Counseling & Development
- Past President, California Association of Counselor Educators & Supervisors
- Past president, California Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development
- Past president, California Association for Counseling and Development-Black Caucus
Current Professional Memberships
- American Counseling Association (ACA)
- Association for Counselor Education and Supervision (ACES)
- Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD)
Community (and other) Participation (partial list)
- Board of Directors, United Way, California Capitol Region (1992 to 1997)
Past Co-Chair, Education Impact Council, United Way Capitol Region (2003-2007)
United Way Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient of 2004
- National Advisory Council Member of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) (1994 to 1998)
- Board of Directors (1984 to 1991 – Board President 1988 to 1990) – Community Services Planning Council of Sacramento Area
- Board of Directors (1982 – 1986) ‘People Reaching Out’ Community Program of Sacramento County