Mary Anne Wilson

Mary Anne Wilson is a MIECHV Research Program Coordinator with the Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD). She received her BA in Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany and her MSW from Indiana University. Prior to joining the University of Illinois in 2012, Mary Anne supervised a teen parent home visiting program, and served as Director of the Success By 6 early childhood initiative. Mary Anne currently works on the CPRD team that is conducting the evaluation and performance benchmarks for multiple Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) and Department of Human Services (DHS) funded home visiting programs in targeted Illinois communities. She serves as project leader, overseeing the work of a team that executes the research and evaluation plan, forms mutually beneficial partnerships and provides leadership to program sites around the issues related to evaluation design, data collection, caseload capacity, program referrals, and interpretation and utilization of evaluation findings. Mary Anne provides training, technical assistance, and continuous quality improvement (CQI) support to coordinated intake program sites across Illinois. She also reviews and interprets data analysis results, communicates data results to multiple audiences and prepares reports to funding agencies and for publication.