Joy Robinson-Lynch has over 30 years of experience in counseling, education, and public health. She has a MA in Counseling and BA in General Studies in the Humanities. Her professional experience includes serving as the HIV/AIDS Program Coordinator for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from 2006-2015, where she oversaw HIV, STD, and teen pregnancy prevention programs. She also worked as a consultant providing professional development, program development, and organizational development services to various health and social services organizations from 1994 to present. Prior to that, she held roles as a school counselor, training specialist, and training coordinator focused on sexual health education.

1. Joy Robinson-Lynch
Education:
MA Counseling, Beacon College, Washington, D.C., 1981
BA General Studies in the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1972
Accreditation: MA Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MA Licensed Social Worker,
MA Certified Guidance Counselor
Professional Experience:
1994-present Joined Path Consulting and Training West Tisbury, MA
Consultation to health, social service agencies and schools,
providing professional development, evaluation, program
development, organizational development, coaching and
management support.
Major Contractors include:
• New York State Department of Public Health: Provided multiple
day professional development event to all WIC managers and
staff on delivering and supporting client-centered approaches,
particularly Motivational Interviewing
• Martha’s Vineyard Public Schools: Created a peer health
education program for high school students to design and run
for middle school students.
• JSI, Boston, MA: provided training and consultation to Title X
family planning programs throughout New England, including
CDC/OPA project that supports clinics using best practices for
integrated HIV services.
• Action for Boston Community Development: consultant to
family planning programs integrating HIV prevention into their
clinical work. The focus of a CDC funded research project was
teaching them to incorporate the Transtheoretical Model of
Behavior Change into their current work
• Healthcare of Southeastern Massachusetts: Ongoing
consultation, supervision and program development for family
planning program.
• Cambridge Economic Opportunity Council, Training,
consultation for family planning staff
2006-2015 HIV/AIDS Program Coordinator, Massachusetts
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
Under a cooperative agreement with CDC's Division of
Adolescent and School Health, oversaw HIV, STD, Teen
Pregnancy prevention programs for Massachusetts school-aged
youth. Policy setting, grants and contract oversight,
professional development for teachers, collaborated with state,
federal programs, NGOs and CBOs, provided TA to school
districts.
• Created and led a dynamic advisory council that did
research, issued reports, advocated for programs,
developed criteria for quality sex education and reviewed
curricula against those criteria

2. • Offered quality professional development events from 3
hours to 5 days in length that provided teachers, school
nurses and counselors with the knowledge comfort and
skills to provide excellent sexual health education in schools
• Modified several national sexuality education curricula to
make them more LGBT inclusive.
• Worked with a contractor to develop a middle school
curriculum and teacher training for the PREP program.
• Worked with the American Psychological Association to
expand their one-day Respect workshop to two days in
order to give school counselors, nurses and social workers
motivation and skills to support LGBTQ students in schools
• Created a strong collaboration with the Department of
Public Health that included a successful collaborative
application for federal teen pregnancy prevention programs
• Served as an expert on a panel to offer advice on
adolescent programs to CDC ‘s National Center for
HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
• Presented at several national conferences including, ASHA,
the National HIV Prevention Conference, and the National
Summit on Sex Education
• Served as a reviewer for the National Teacher Preparation
Standards for Sexuality Education.
• Co-Created the National Professional Development program
to provide PD to DASH funded agencies.
1990-1994 School Counselor, West Tisbury School, West Tisbury , MA.
Provided and supervised counseling services in K-8 primary
school. Created, coordinated system for service provision by
outside agencies. Implemented a comprehensive middle school
health education program.
1988-89 Training Specialist, Planned Parenthood League of
Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA.
Created a training institute for medical, educational and social
service professionals. Institute was 1990 recipient Planned
Parenthood Federation of America’s Affiliate Excellence Award
for professional training.
1981-1989 Associate, Adams Street Psychotherapists, Newton, MA.
Private practice, providing therapy to adults, adolescents and
families.
1984-86 Training Coordinator, ABCD Family Planning, Boston, MA.
• Created professional development program.
• Developed continuing education programs for Boston Public
Schools
• Supervised community education staff.