Onsite-Insights
13 Fox Gate Way
Hampton, Virginia 23664-1963
757-850-8271 (Office)
757-880-1384 (Mobil)
rgoll@cox.net
Richard E. Goll
Living and working to make a difference. Striving to help individuals, groups, organizations, and systems understand that addressing adaptive challenges requires people and their systems to change the way they think, behave or believe.
Work Experience:
2001 – Present Co-founder and Principal Officer - R&C Associates, LLC (dba Onsite-Insights); providing consultation, training and technical assistance to municipalities, foundations, national organizations and agencies. Primary services include facilitating youth and adult citizens in the creation of Children, Youth and Family Master Plans, youth civic engagement systems, and youth empowerment and voice opportunities. Other services include assisting organizations to become more vision-driven, strength-based, and developmentally attentive.
1972 - 2001 Founder and Executive Director - Alternatives Inc., Hampton, VA; a nationally-recognized youth development agency whose mission is “Awakening the best in every young person so that they may participate in building caring communities.”
1990 - 2001 Chief Executive Officer - Alternatives Foundation, Hampton, VA; a non-stock corporation designed to provide funding for worthwhile youth-related ventures within the City of Hampton
1971 - 1972 Director - Adolescent Drug Treatment Program, Queens General Hospital, NY; a comprehensive program providing outpatient, day services, inpatient, reentry, methadone maintenance and detoxification services
1970 - 1971 Residential Director - Kinsman Hall, Hillsdale, NY and Jackman, ME; residential facilities for substance-abusing youth
Related Experience:
A key aspect of the services offered below, is that many benefited from the use of a highly skilled and experienced group of high school-aged trainers who served as co-facilitators. Since 2001 I have trained between 3 and 6 young people each year to serve as my co-facilitative training team. The young people travel with me to most sites providing participants with insights that I would never be able to share. These youth are selected based on the amount of service they have already provided their community and each receives many hours of facilitation training. This youth and adult team allows communities to see first hand the power and value of meaningfully engaging young people.
1990 – Present Hampton, Virginia: A chief architect for this city’s Youth Master Plan; the 2005 recipient of Harvard University’s Innovation in American Government Award. Over 5,000 youth and adult citizens were involved in the initial planning process allowing the plan to remain effective through multiple administrations and significant funding loses.
1996 – Present Hampton, Virginia: Served as part of the development team that created the nation’s first Youth Planner Program – a city Planning Department that employs high school students to write and maintain (in partnership with Hampton’s Youth Commission) the youth component of the city’s strategic plan.
2007 – present La Plata County: Serving as the chief architect for this county’s Children, Youth and Family Master Plan, a comprehensive inclusive document based on the National League of Cities’ Strengthening Families and Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth Platform. Planning process includes two towns, a city, the county and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe. Completion date is May 2008.
2005 – 2006 Brighton, Colorado: Served as the chief architect for this city’s Children, Youth and Family Master Plan, a comprehensive inclusive document based on the National League of Cities’ Strengthening Families and Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth Platform. Engaged over 1,300 youth and adult citizens in the planning process that produced 19 strength-based recommendations to address the adaptive challenges facing the city’s children, youth and families.
2005 Singapore National Youth Council: Consulted and trained 24 young people (15 –35 year olds) selected to run a national youth grant initiative for Singapore’s National Youth Council. Facilitated their efforts to create a structure for this highly effective initiative, provided the needed knowledge and skills, and identified how success would be measured.
2001 –2002 Multnomah County, Oregon: Provided ongoing and extensive consultation, training, and a “How to” manual to the county’s Take the Time Initiative. Services and products centered on enhancing the engagement of youth in five pre-selected youth serving organizations in Multnomah County. This County now has the nation’s first children and youth bill of rights and is the first county to have high school students employed within the county’s Planning Department.
2001 – 2002 Greater Milwaukee Foundation – Milwaukee, Wisconsin Provided ongoing and extensive consultation, training, and technical support to the Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s efforts to create a mobilization to bring young people and adults together in new ways.
2001 – Present National League of Cities (NLC): Serve as consultant, trainer and presenter for the NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families. Directly worked with these cities, providing them a minimum of two days of training and consultation in youth engagement and youth and adult partnerships: Brookings, SD; Caldwell, ID; Dallas, TX; Des Moines, IA; Freemont, CA; Galveston, TX; Lawton, OK; Macon, GA; Nashville, TN; Salt Lake City, UT; Newport News, VA; Norfolk, VA; Philadelphia, PA; Rock Hill, SC; Saginaw, MI; and Tucson, AZ.
2002 – 2006 Search Institute, Minneapolis, MN: Served as a trainer, curriculum developer, presenter and consultant in the areas of youth engagement, youth development, youth and adult partnerships and organizational change. Developed four youth engagement curricula and one organizational change curriculum. Trained over 1,500 youth and adults from 35 communities.
2001 – Present Youth Commissions and Councils: Prepared the following Youth Commissions/Councils to be effective contributors within these cities: Brighton, CO; Hampton, VA; Milwaukee, WI; Nashville, TN; New Haven, CT; Portland OR; Richmond, VA; Riverside, CA; Superior, WI; Worchester County, MD.
2001 – Present Organizational Visioning and Change: Created curriculum to help the following organizations become more developmentally attentive with their young customers. New York State Office of Children and Families; Dallas YMCA; seven youth serving organizations in Hampton, VA; New York City YMCA; Taipei American School, Taipei, Taiwan; 25 youth serving organizations in Singapore.
2001 – Present National 4-H Council: Provided consultation, training and presentations to their national Youth in Governance initiative. Worked with over 45 communities and 1,500 individuals.
1990 – 2001 Alternatives, Inc.: Led this organization, which was recognized as one the premier substance abuse prevention organizations in the county, into a change process that established it as a national leader in youth development and youth engagement. Was the first organization of its kind to incorporate its customers as change agents for this transition. Went from a $2.5 million organization that served just under 300 young people to a $900K organization engaging 6,000 youth.
1980 - 89 Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services: Serve as a consultant and driving force in the development of a statewide system of adolescent alcohol, tobacco and other drug use services.
Appointments and Leadership Roles
2000 – 2001 Appointed to Newport News Commission on Youth
1996 - 2001 Appointed to Hampton’s Neighborhood Commission
1998 - 2001 Chair of Neighborhood Commission’s Education and Training Committee
1996 - 2000 Board member (Executive Committee) - Downtown Hampton Business Improvement District
1995 –Present Chairman of Selection Committee - Kellam, Weaver-Fagan & Hastee Educational Trust Funds
1993 - 2001 Past-Chair and member of the Coalition for a Smoke-free Peninsula
1991 - 2001 Founding member of Newport News Alliance for Youth
1991 - 1992 President of Newport News Alliance for Youth
1990 - Present Founding member of the Hampton Coalition for Youth
1988 - 2001 Member of United Way Executive Director's Roundtable
1991/92 President of United Way Executive Director's Roundtable
1986 Consultant to Virginia Health Congress
1984 Appointed to White House committee studying national policy governing substance abuse services for youth
1973 - 81 Co-founder and past president of Virginia Association of Drug and Alcohol Programs - Developed original State Certification of Substance Abuse Counselors
Education:
1979 BA Psychology, Christopher Newport College
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