1. DeLois R Robison
deloisr@gmail.com 17505 Roselawn Street
www.ujamaaassociates.com Detroit, MI 48221
313-623-4078
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
• BA in Humanities, Arts and Letters
• MA in Education
• Results oriented experience in education, youth development, parent education, and HIV prevention
• Successful proposal, grant and business plan writing and reviewing
• Able to travel
• Fully equipped home-baseed office with broadband internet
SKILLS SET
General
• Skilled group facilitator, presenter, trainer • Program, development, organization, management,
• Excellent verbal, writiten and communication skills evaluation
• Computer and internet skills, fully equipped home • Workplace supervision of professional staff,
home with broadband internet connection volunteers, youth
• Proven ability to communicate and work effectively
Occupational Skill Sets with diverse demographic populations
K-12, Adult and Alternative Education
Tutoring, teaching, mentoring, peer education, training, professional development with cultural integrity;
youth leadership, PSAT/SAT/ACT/GED preparation and support for college bound students and their
families, customied personalized education solutions for children and adults
HIV Prevention
Certified counseling and testing Community Planning
Street outreach and risk reduction counseling Community Education
Field Interviewing
• CAPI, observational, data collection and reporting, review files, audit, in-person, telephone interviews
• Consistently exceed goals
• Proven ability to convert refusals
• Complete administrative tasks in timely manner
• Consistently excellent feedback from interviewees
• Earned all available bonuses, rate increases, incentive payments available in my position
Proposal, grant and Business Plan
• Writing
• Reviewing
EDUCATION
• First African American female dorm president
Michigan State University
• Presidential Fellowship
BA, Humanities, Arts and Letters
• Assistant to the Dean, College of Education
• Student Exchange: University of Wien
• Assistant to the Dean, College of Education
Wayne State University
• Assistant Director, Golightly Educational Center
MA, Education
• Event Coordinator: Centennial Celebration, College of
Additional Professional Training Education with Esther Rolle received honorary doctorate
• Comprehensive Competencies Program
• TABE
• USES
• HIV Counceling and Testing Certification

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WORK HISTORY
1976-1979 Detroit Education Task Force, Decentralization Study Committee
Responsible for organizing, managing and reporting the results of open hearings
and focus groups; supervised 7 research assistants, generated reports for committee
members, staff and chairs
1979-1983 Wayne State University
Coodinated college’s centennial celebration, completed writing and research assisgned
by the Dean, served as assistant director of the Golightly Educational Center
1983-1993 Metro Detroit Youth Foundation
Responsible for basic skills tutoring programs that consistently exceeded program goals;
piloted dropout prevent program (The Leaning Academy) in 7 schools; supervised the
expansion of the program to 22 schools; trained administrators, counselors, teachers
and parents to replicate successful parent education program in Milwaukee Public
Schools; Managed SAT/ACT preparation program from initial implementation in two high
th
schools to expansion to 22 high schools, serving 1300 collegte-bound 11 graders and
200 student athletes, created and managed cultural programs for agency staff, students
and the community (Affiliate Artists)
Created revenue streams that generated millions of dollars for agency and program
operation and expansion of my programs from the State Board of Education, public
and private foundations, businesses and industry.
1999-2000 Detroit Health Department HIV Prevention Community Planner
Research, staff support, for Region One HIV Community Planning Group; co-coordinator
of first joint conference of state HIV care and prevention planning committtees
2000-2002 AIDS Consortium of Southeastern Michigan
Street outreach, management of a drop-in center; counseling, testing
1993-Present Independent Contractor, Doing Business As Ujamaa Associates
Teaching, tutoring, traininhg Writing
• Developed and implemented Young Entrepreneurs, • Curriculum Module: Guidelines to Assure Client
for 40 at risk and 10 foster care youth Confidentiality, School of Social Work, Wayne
• SAT/ACT (English) and test taking strategies program State University
for charter school seniors, for profit organizations • African American Women in Business-
• Created and marketed FuturePrep: a personal (Michgan), National Association of Black
education program for college bound students and Business and Professional Womens Club, Inc
their parents • Evaluation of African American Curriculum
Field Interviewing Materials – Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn.MI
• Audit doctors files and offices for compliance • Student and Teacher Survey about African
and certification as medicaid providers American Curriculum Materials
• National Head Start Survey: classroom observation Lansing Public Schools, MI
review classroom materials Other
• School Health Policies and Procedures Survey; • Partner and proprietor, 4 Queens Boutique
interviewed administrators, teachers and food staff • Co-created Kwanzaa Kalenda
Medical Expenditures Panel Survey for 5 years • Formed Afrikan World Marketplace Association
HIV Prevention • Strategic planning with adminstrators, faculty
• Youth Peer educator workshops, professional and staff,.2-years, Lewis College
development workshops for adults of Business
• Focus groups to gather data for research related to • Education Consultant, Museum of African
HIV prevention for 1000 African Americans 55+ American History, responsible
(Program Planning Retreat, Detroit Medical Center, for developing educational materials,
Horizons Project staff activities and events in conjunction
with museum exhibits
Proposal Reviewer • Developed and conducted business plan writing
US Department of Education, Several Departments workshops for 50 entrepreneurs
US Department of Human Services/SAMHSA, ACYF
References available upon request