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Kikora
Dorsey
Director, Technical Assistance/Systems Improvement
Casey Family Programs
Kikora Dorsey
works at Casey Family Programs, where she is responsible for directing
the community and constituency engagement work. While at Casey Family
Programs, Ms. Dorsey has also served as director of Practice Implementation
and Support with responsibilities for the implementation of Knowing
Who You Are, and served as the 2007 It’s My Life conference director.
In addition, she has also served as the acting senior director of General
Systems Improvement, and as director of Special Initiatives, where she
was responsible for leading and coordinating work of the Washington
State Foster Care Improvement Plan and other special initiatives focused
on reforming and improving the child welfare system. Prior to joining
Casey in August 2001, Kikora served as executive director of the Washington
Council for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, having been appointed
by Governor Locke in 1997. She has also served as regional administrator
in the Division of Children and Families Services in the Washington
Department of Social and Health Services. In addition, she has worked
for a variety of human service agencies in both the public and private
sectors.
Ms. Dorsey has been awarded many honors, including being the inaugural
recipient of the Thomas C. Wales Passionate Citizenship Award in 2002
and in 2004, and the Casey Family Programs honored her with the Linda
Wilson Diversity and Anti-Racism award. Her volunteer and professional
commitments include: Board member of the Family Leadership Fund, past
co-chair of Children of Color
Organizers and Advocates (COCOA), and of the Minority Executive Directors’
Coalition of King County, as well as being a past board member of the
National Black Child Development Institute.
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DeVone
Boggan
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DeVone Boggan
Director, Office of Neighborhood Safety
Richmond,CA
DeVone Boggan currently serves as the director of Richmond, California’s
Office of Neighborhood Safety. This office represents one of only a
few created in US cities to coordinate and expand violence prevention
and intervention activity to generate greater neighborhood safety and
well-being within cities plagued by widespread street violence. He has
also served as president of dbMENTORS, Inc., a consulting group that
provides technical assistance and training to organizations interested
in developing, operating or managing mentoring programs, and he served
on the board of California CASA Association from 2001-2003.
DeVone’s experience includes developing and implementing effective
strategies for traditionally underserved youth, especially youth who
have multiple contacts with the juvenile justice system as well as those
who are incarcerated, youth in foster care, and youth in alternative
education settings. He has a passion for training and motivating youth
volunteers, and has trained over 25,000 mentors nationwide.
A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he has worked
in the public and private sectors in the areas of public policy and
administration, as well as organizational design, human resource development,
and management. DeVone has served on the Governor’s State Mentoring
Council and as a consultant to the President’s National Advisory
Council on Violence Against Women and Children. DeVone is the co-author
of three publications: Classification of Mentoring Relationship Types,
Final Report—Mentoring Service Delivery Systems, and Framework
for Mentorology. He is also an active CASA for Alameda County CASA.
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