Founder and Executive Director at Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Founder and Executive Director at Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
- Past
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- Founder and Program Director at National Effective Parenting Initiative
- Project Director for numerous research, training and community service projects at Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
- Professor, Dean for Academic Affairs at California School of Professional Psychology
- Head, Childrens Services, Head, Program Evaluation, Director, Child-Parent Mental Health Worker Prog at Kedren Community Mental Health Center
- Education
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- State University of New York at Albany
- California State University-Los Angeles
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Connections
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- Industry
- Non-Profit Organization Management
- Websites
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.’s Summary
Agency founder and executive director of a 35-year-old nonprofit organization that has grown to be one of the nation's most productive and influencial parenting and parenting education institutions.
Also is the author of such books as The Positive Parent: Raising Healthy, Happy and Achieving Children, Birth through Adolescence, Black Parenting: Strategies for Training, The CICC Discovery Tool, Parent Training Today, and The Power of Positive Parenting. In addition, Dr. Alvy has designed and authored several parenting skill-building programs like Confident Parenting, Effective Black Parenting and Los Ninos Bien Educados.
Desires to expand the scope, impact and longevity of the organization in order to help establish effective parenting and parenting education as national priorties. The overarching goal is to create the conditions in the United States that will make it possible for it to become the birthright of every child to be raised effectively and sensitively by loving and skillful parents who receive the best possible parenting education and support.
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.’s Specialties:
Parenting, Program Development, Parent Training, Parent Education, Child Abuse Prevention, Parent Involvement
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.’s Experience
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Founder and Executive Director
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
1974 — Present (36 years )
Dr. Alvy founded this nonprofit training, research and community service organization in 1974 and has been its director eversince. He has helped to make it one of the nation's most productive and influential parenting and parenting education institutions. The Center's parenting programs are now in use in 44 states and the District of Columbia, and millions of parents, from all cultural backgrounds and life circumstances, have been assisted in being more humane and effective in raising their children. Dr. Alvy has orchestrated this growth, as well as having written the organization's main parenting programs.
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Founder and Program Director
National Effective Parenting Initiative
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
2006 — 2009 (3 years )
This advocacy and membership organization is hosted by the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring and its purposes are to advocate for, celebrate and promote effective parenting and parenting education.
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Project Director for numerous research, training and community service projects
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
1976 — 2009 (33 years )
These include national continuing education projects for professionals, research projects to develop and test parenting programs, and countywide community service projects like Programs for Parents, Child Abuse Information Center, Parenting Information Service, and projects to identify and treat young children with special needs ("Does My Child Have Special Needs?)
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Professor, Dean for Academic Affairs
California School of Professional Psychology
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
1972 — 1989 (17 years )
Dr. Alvy served in a variety of capacities at this first free-standing school of professional psycholoy in the United States. He taught and created a variety of graduate level courses and achieved the status of Full Professor. He was Faculty President at two different periods of time, and Dean for Academic Affairs early in his career at CSPP-LA.
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Head, Childrens Services, Head, Program Evaluation, Director, Child-Parent Mental Health Worker Prog
Kedren Community Mental Health Center
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
1970 — 1977 (7 years )
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.’s Education
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State University of New York at Albany
Ph.D. , Clinical Psychology , 1965 — 1970
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- Dr. Alvy was supported by a Teaching Fellowship while at Albany and published a research article on communication development in children while in this program, as well as eventually publishing his disseration research as resrach monograph. The University honored him in 1997 with a Distinguished Alumni Award.
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California State University-Los Angeles
Psychology 1962 — 1964
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University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. , Political Science , 1957 — 1962
Additional Information
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.’s Websites:
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.’s Groups:
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Holistic Moms Network
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.’s Honors:
People's Champ Award, Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles, 2002; Pioneer in Family Support Movement, Family Support America, 2002; National Parents Day Award, White House,1995; Distinquished Alumni Award, State University at New York,1997; Lightening the Way to the New Millennium Award, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and Parenting Coalition International, 1999, US Senate
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- expertise requests
