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Gary Resnick Ph.D.

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Gary Resnick, Ph.D., Director of Research
Gary has more than 30 years of experience as a program evaluator and developmental psychologist in the fields of early childhood education, family support, poverty, at-risk youth, public policy, evaluation methods and systems measurement. He is a nationally recognized expert in child development research and has used various measures and research designs to study children from infancy through adolescence.

Gary’s role at Harder+Company is to ensure the scientific rigor of our applied research activities. His extensive experience conducting evaluations of human service programs involving mixed-method, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and quasi-experimental designs has made him a key contributor to our First 5 evaluations in Sacramento, Fresno, Monterey and San Joaquin counties.

Before joining Harder+Company in 2009, Gary served as senior study director of child and family studies at Westat. While there, he participated in national, multi-site evaluations for federal and state agencies, including the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the United States Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Gary also served as deputy project director for the first three cohorts of the national Head Start FACES study. In addition, Gary assisted the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health in designing a national, multi-site evaluation of its Healthy Start program.

Dr. Resnick has written extensively in the fields of child abuse and neglect and child and family development. He co-authored several criterion-referenced measures of children’s emergent literacy for the FACES study, and collaborated on a revision of the Separation Anxiety Test to assess attachment in early adolescence. Gary is also the co-author of Building Supportive Communities for At-Risk Adolescents: It Takes More Than Services (APA Press, 1998).

Gary served for three terms as consulting editor for Child Development, the premier professional journal in child development research. In addition, he is a reviewer for The Early Childhood Research Quarterly and the American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology.

Education

Tufts University
Massachusetts, United States
Doctor of Philosophy
Applied Developmental Psychology, Eliot-Pearson Institute of Child Study

University of Toronto
Ontario, Canada
Bachelor of Arts
Psychology

University of Toronto
Ontario, Canada
Master of Social Work
Concentration in Program Evaluation

Job History

Harder+Company Community Research
Director of Research
San Francisco, CA, United States