1. Bio-Sketch and Key Accomplishments
Jametta Yvonne Lilly
1 Jametta Lilly cell 313 510-3206 jamettal@gmail.com
Jametta Lilly is an innovative and skilled change agent that has provided leadership
as an administrator or consultant to local agencies, foundations, state and federal government
programs. Deeply committed to equity and excellence she is a consummate advocate for
policies, programs and practices that positively impact vulnerable families and communities.
Her collaborative program design and system building has resulted in more than 20 innovative
start-ups and initiatives in complex human service systems and the private sector. She has
successfully written and implemented some $18million in groundbreaking grants from
foundations, state and federal funders focusing on program and systems change, quality
improvement, organizational development and training in early childhood, behavioral health
and maternal child health.
In late 2015 Jametta was recruited as the Assistant Director for Michigan’s largest Early/Head Start grantee where she
was principal in the re-design and grant writing for the new Wayne County Pre-Birth to Five, PB5 program. Wayne
County PB5 received a five year $30 million dollar grant to provide comprehensive evidence based Early Head Start and
Head Start services to pregnant families and children birth to age five throughout Wayne County. PB5 now offers direct
services along with serving as the grantee of two delegates in Detroit and Out-Wayne County. Jametta leads strategic
partnerships and start-ups in diverse communities with budding centers in college, faith-based and school settings. In
addition to her supervisory roles she is committed to best practices focused on integrating early learning, health and
mental health for children and supporting family empowerment, literacy, and workforce development.
Jametta’s insights, passion and skills for building substantive collaboration between child-family systems and community
partners was instrumental in her previous position as Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the Wayne Children’s
Healthcare Access Program (WCHAP). WCHAP Inc. was the 2nd
CHAP model in the state of Michigan. Its primary
focus was to improve equitable access, to quality health care for children involved in Medicaid care by promoting the
Pediatric Medical Home Model. The CHAP model collaborates with primary care practices, mental health and
child/family agencies along with Medicaid health plans, head starts and the State in advancing best practices, and policies
to reduce health disparities. With Funding by the Kresge and W. K. Kellogg Foundations, over a four and half year period,
WCHAP went from a conceptional idea into becoming a sustainable independent non-profit where she successfully
launched evidence based programs in asthma and childhood obesity. Also WCHAP in conjunction with pediatric
practices, and hundreds of health industry professionals and parents was successful in helping them to jointly improve
child /family health standards. at WCHAP she created and established the Perinatal to Pediatric Transitions Think Tank
to strengthen policies in the pre-birth to age five continuums with membership from local, state, public health, and
hospitals. Her leadership helped create 5 new CHAPs in Michigan!
Jametta is a long-term champion in early childhood/family development and maternal-child health and mental health
integration and system building. She is an original member of the Great Start Collaborative Wayne, serving as chair or co-
chair of the Pediatric Family Health Action Team. That Team has been repurposed as ‘Born Ready’, using Collective
Impact approaches to improve birth outcomes. She has hosted the national Help Me Grow program, and participated in
design thinking for the Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS). Additionally, she expanded home visiting and
initiated partnerships with head start/early head start, and early care providers. Foundations and stakeholders frequently
include her in task groups as a result of her multi-sector experiences to ‘connect the dots’ between child health, and school
readiness success. Jametta received the ‘Fierce Heart” Award by the state Early Childhood Investment Corporation,
ECIC, for her visionary leadership and accomplishments in early childhood, maternal-child health and program
development. She has worked in mental health as a Director of Prevention, and spent eleven years as the Special Projects

2. Bio-Sketch and Key Accomplishments
Jametta Yvonne Lilly
2 Jametta Lilly cell 313 510-3206 jamettal@gmail.com
Consultant for the Detroit Wayne County Mental Health Agency (now Authority) where she designed and managed
multiple County and State mental health initiatives addressing equity, access and community capacity building for
children and families. Her commitment to improving birth outcomes led to being recruited to serve as the consultant for
the Detroit and Wayne County Health Departments Infant Mortality Reduction grant. Her research report and
collaborative engagement of dozens of organizations led to the creation of the Infant Vitality Action Network, IVAN.
IVAN augmented the State of Michigan’s infant mortality work in the eleven communities with the highest mortality rates
and was recognized by the National Office of Minority Health. Keen on the use of data to drive understanding and
decision making she was co-founder of the Michigan Children’s Outcomes Imitative (MCOMI). She was recruited by the
Pittsburgh based, Corporation of Standards and Outcomes as their national Produce Director for helping child service
organizations throughout the country to implement web and server-based tools and training to track, report and analyze
services and outcomes.
Jametta has been an early childhood evaluator and program improvement consultant for local and national organizations.
She was promoted to Lead Consultant for technical assistance with HHS Region IV and V Head Start, and was a trainer in
Early Head Start. She has also served as the training and education director with the Detroit Head Start grantee when it
served some 10,000 children. At the W.K. Kellogg Foundation she worked directly with the lead program officers as the
evaluator for Native American grantees in the Birth to Three Program and later as the program consultant to the SPARKs
0-5 initiative in eight states. She has consistently worked to advance communities of color and cultural competence at the
practice and policy levels. Trained in the Georgetown Cultural Competency model she promotes strategies for individual
and societal change in all of her work. In addition to her career in child-family services she has experience in workforce
development, including serving as the Executive Director for the first-of its kind Detroit Healthcare Career Center. Her
breadth of entrepreneurial experience includes owning two businesses with her husband Leon Lilly to address the digital
divide and provided business and cultural exchange in West Africa and the Caribbean. Additionally she has served on
Mayoral business development committees and been Vice President in the historical Avenue of Fashion Business
Association where she helped design and launch private-public campaigns.
Jametta is an honors graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia where she majored in child development and
spearheaded the Forum for Black Children. She has extensive graduate education in human development and adult
learning and was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Wayne State University. In addition to decades of participating in and
leading professional development in agency and community college settings, she is completing a Master’s in Public
Administration at the University of Michigan with a concentration in nonprofit leadership.
Jametta is the President and Principal Consultant for Dynamic Solutions for Change, Inc. where she is committed to
energizing innovation and excellence. Mission driven, she provides her vision, skills and gift for catalyzing diverse people
and organizations to building sustainable and equitable outcomes.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Seasoned and dynamic change agent, administrator and consultant with a demonstrated track record of
strategic innovation and success in complex initiatives, program development, grant writing, organizational
improvement, evaluation and collaborative leadership in systems of government, non-profits, foundations
and the private sector.

3. Bio-Sketch and Key Accomplishments
Jametta Yvonne Lilly
3 Jametta Lilly cell 313 510-3206 jamettal@gmail.com
1. Exemplary expertise in collaborative engagement and program development, implementation and evaluation of
child-family programs including start-ups; leveraging private and public funding, visioning and solution building
2. Successful grant writing for $18ML in singular and multi-agency initiatives and projects. Accomplished strategic
fund developer, contract and risk management, and fiscal oversight for annual budgets up to $3.5ML
3. Politically astute and able to provide executive leadership, strategic planning, supervision of direct and functional
human resources, technology savvy and managing multifaceted projects and metrics
4. Exceptional diplomatic and negotiating skills in building collaboration and relationships to address equity and
other complex issues with diverse constituencies in corporate, government and nonprofit sectors
HIGHLIGHTS and ACCOMPLISHMENTS
● WAYNE COUNTY HEAD START GRANTEE/ WC PRE-BIRTH TO FIVE, PB5. Principal design and grant writer in new $30
million grant for Early Head Start and Head Start. Lead in program startup with grantee staff, program and
community development with new partners in health, higher education and faith-based organizations.
● WAYNE CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE ACCESS PROGRAM. Led county wide planning initiative; engaged academic and
community stakeholders, provided content development and promotions, research, group facilitation, grant writing,
‘return on investment’ scenarios and built the network of local and state health, child-family programs,
associations, foundations and systems level partners. Invited by Foundations and successfully achieved $2.5ML to
launch WCHAP as the 2nd
medical home pilot to advance Equity, Access and Quality for vulnerable children.
● DETROIT WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AGENCY developed ‘Special Projects’ Unit from $50,000
to $8ML in new child/family programs including Early On and the MI Post Adoption Services System, expanded
partnerships and collaboration with foundations, community and non-traditional partners; Program development
and funding for the first Technical Assistance Program, EOTAP , to train parents as partners in clinical settings.
● DETROIT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROMOTION AND WAYNE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
HEALTH. Recruited to lead and facilitate multi-pronged strategies which increased enrollment in Medicaid programs
serving women and children, co-created the Pathway Center, the first centralized intake for the City. Advanced
maternal-infant health provider quality improvement and gained state and federal recognition for IVAN, the Infant
Vitality Action Network, IVAN, for reducing African American Infant Mortality and Morbidity.
● W.K. KELLOGG FOUNDATION, PROJECT CONSULTANT 0-5 PROGRAMS, recruited by Foundation’s Lead Program
Director. Provided innovative and timely deliverables in the $43ML SPARK Initiative including grant management
support, program development and technical assistance to WKKF directors and grantees in eight states from project
startup phase to implementation. Competitively selected as the Program Evaluator for Michigan Native American
grantees in the Pre-Birth to Age Three project in three states.
● ANNENBURG CHALLENGE, SCHOOLS OF THE 21ST CENTURY DETROIT. Consultant to five schools in City-Wide
school reform initiative designed to dramatically improve professional development, parent empowerment and
student achievement. Successfully coached school-community leadership teams in school and project based fiscal
management, designed creative and new after-school programs, and facilitated community planning.
● FEDERAL REGION IV AND V HEAD START TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, LEAD CONSULTANT, EMPRISE DESIGNS Program
Governance and Management Lead. Assisted in recruitment, training and coordination of consultants working with
high risk grantees. Planner and consultant in ’ First Wave’ of Early Head Start entities. Coordinated first
Management Institute for boards of directors, Community Action Agency staff and parent leaders from six states.
Led ‘turn around teams’ and made recommendations at Regional meetings in Atlanta and Chicago.